Trump Snubs His Big Faith Event to Go Golfing

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Updated May 17 2026 4:49PM EDT
Published May 17 2026 4:39PM EDT


President Donald Trump skipped his own White House-backed event “rededicating” the nation to God to spend the day at his preferred place of worship: the golf course.

As thousands flocked to the National Mall on Sunday for a Trump-backed rally highlighting “the Church’s role in history and civic life” in honor of America’s 250th, the president’s motorcade rolled out of the capital towards the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.

Meanwhile, Trump, 79, fired off a decidedly unholy and chilling Truth Social message once again threatening to wipe out Iran. “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them,” he wrote. “TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! President DJT.”

Trump, who said in 2020 that he considers himself a non-denominational Christian, appears not to have attended a church service since his January 21, 2025, visit to the Washington National Cathedral in the final event of his second inauguration. He has instead made a habit of spending many Sundays on the fairways of his golf clubs. According to Did Trump Golf Today, the president has played golf for 106 of his first 483 days back in office, or roughly 21.9 percent of his presidency.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-snubs-his-rededicate-250-event-in-dc-to-go-golfing-in-virginia/

[ananda]

1. Why should "god" attend his own event?

He's way too good for that.

[wnylib]

60. Or he is afrsid that God will smite him for hypocrisy.

[Bluestocking]

2. The next church service he attends

Will be his funeral

[KS Toronado]

18. Hope that's SOON !

[buzzycrumbhunger]

26. Not soon enough!

C’mon, blood clot, cancer, aneurysm—ANYTHING! Do your fucking job!

[moonbatmax]

29. And, he'll probably...

...show up LATE to that!

[peppertree]

33. Or it'll be like J. Edgar Hoover's

The Hepatitis-ridden little bastard - paranoid to the end - had his casket lined with lead, out of fear one of his (many) victims would try to defile his bio-hazard of a corpse.

It was, consequently, so heavy, that one of the pallbearers fainted (and these were the strongest Marines Nixon could find!).

Would've been great if the other five had dropped it on his "widow" (Clyde Tolson - who inherited Hoover's ill-gotten estate).

[electric_blue68]

57. Oh! Didn't know about the casket!

[peppertree]

64. Oh, yeah. The pall bearers were all white - as his insistence.

The little pig was full of stories.

I forget the book I read many of them (it was in the '90s) - though I do recall hearing the FBI tried to get it banned (indirectly - by pressuring publishers to drop it).

One of the best-known stories from the beginning of his life - rather than the end - is that his mulatto mother (who hated her own African-American percentage - probably a good 25% or so), was aghast that her son turned out as mulatto as he did.

You see, she had married a very white guy in hope of avoiding that - who, sadly, suffered from mental illness.

So - of course - Edgar (his preferred nickname) got his Negro features from his mom, and his borderline personality from his dad.

Edgar - who adored his mother to a fault - adopted her hatred of Black people lock, stock and barrel. He started by straightening his hair as a teen - and, as you know, went on to be the scourge of the Civil Rights movement much later in life.

There's also good reason to believe he had Oakland, CA, flooded with heroin in the late '60s - out of sheer hatred for the Black Panthers.

In many ways - a "Trump-before-Trump" in his sheer level of criminality, his penchant for (and vulnerability to) extortion, and seething hatred for his fellow man.

[electric_blue68]

66. Wow, I had no idea! But looking at his younger photos I can see...

he might of had some Black lineage as well. Black people have such a range (with heinous begnnings) of Black to Caucasian features. And he straightened his hair?! Woah.
I knew he was probably gay, or bi.
.
I was 19 when he died, so compared to some older DU'rs [I"m 73]; they might have been even more aware of him.
But I did/do know of his relentless pursuit of Dr King and other Civil Rights activists!
Thanks for this info...wow. History (which I often learn from) can inform us!

[peppertree]

67. You bet.

It is what it is.

[JT45242]

41. And the first non photo op staged by handlers

[SergeStorms]

54. They'll screw that up.

Instead of having his funeral at the Washington National Cathedral, someone on his staff will book it at Nathaniel Washington's Chicken-n-Ribs restaurant. Chaos will ensue. 😉

[MLWR]

3. "I'm a good christian, and I am."

He just doesn't do a single thing to back that up.

[Justice matters.]

23. Pedo threatens an entire nation of 90 millions... very Christian of him...

Another war crime to add to the pile of crimes against Humanity.

[BattleRow]

31. Except attending Sunday services at Our Lady of Mar a lago.

[More_Cowbell]

4. Apparently he reused a video from another occasion

"President Trump’s recorded video message at today’s Rededicate 250 appears to be identical to the video that he recorded 3 weeks ago for something called "America Reads The Bible.”

Link to tweet

?s=20

[BidenRocks]

16. So, a visual Auto-Pen!

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Totally in character.

It's fine for others, but he'd rather golf. Me, me, me, me, me.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Here is trump's heavily edited contribution to this event

Link to tweet

Holy shit. This is a prerecorded message with lots of obvious edits and this is the best he can do? He looks like a cadaver, sounds like he's on a ventilator, and can't even properly read the sections that come from a book he's never read.

[efhmc]

9. The people he send this to are easily duped. I always wonder if they have ever even read the words that Christ spoke.

Not words from someone who just wants cash.

[OGBuzz]

48. Wow, just listen to him breathing. Tick Tock MFer.

[tanyev]

7. Maybe they'll have another event after they get the reflecting pool rigged

to make it look like he’s walking on water.


🤨

[paleotn]

8. Now THAT'S funny as hell.

At least he's not falling for all of his own con. I'll give the orange jackass that. Far better to spend the day golfing if that's your thing. For me it's sleeping a few extra hours and then working in our gardens on a gloriously sunny day.

[usonian]

10. Good will punish him for playing hooky.

[nakocal]

11. Trump skips Klan Rally

Trump skips Klan rally as he wouldn't be the center of attention.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. He's too important for their bullshit. ...

Our whole 250th is just going to be more tax money thievery, destruction of democracy and pandering to his group of brainless cultists.

Psychopaths don't believe in any god but themselves.

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

[bedazzled]

63. The only ones that don't apply are 6 and 16

He can never appear benevolent and is totally unable to impersonate a feeling human being.

[republianmushroom]

13. They will still think of him as their God.

[Just Jerome]

14. "Yo, God!

Meet me at the 19th Hole. First round is on me!”

Say, uh, God? Quick word, please?

[J_William_Ryan]

15. "TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! President DJT."

We have an 15 year old ignoramus as ‘president.’

[DFW]

20. Our biggest problem is:

We have about 40 million Americans who think that is wonderful.

[popsdenver]

17. My guess is

that he and the republican party will mummify him, and put him on display indefinitely in the Rotunda, in a golden sarcophagus.....

[Deuxcents]

19. Didn't they do that with Stalin?

[popsdenver]

22. Don't know.......NC

[DonCoquixote]

37. lenin

they did that to him, and Evita peron.

[Deuxcents]

53. O..Lenin..thank you

[DFW]

21. God or golfing

Unless God really is just like Morgan Freeman or George Burns, I don’t know which one I’d find more boring.

[Justice matters.]

24. ... at the taxpayers expense.

Methinks it's missing at the end of the headline (according to me).

[Sneederbunk]

25. But his foursome included a couple of Corinthians.

[angrychair]

27. Hahahahaha

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha...that is some funny stuff right there.
"Most religious president in history"

[oasis]

28. "Heaven can wait, now watch this drive"

[Maru Kitteh]

30. And yet you will SEE NO PHOTOS of him actually golfing.

Riddle me that one. There is no evidence of him actually swinging a club since July of 2025. Not one picture. Just some photo ops of an old man riding on a golf cart.

I dare somebody to find me one. You can’t. That’s how sick he is.

[MadameButterfly]

32. I wonder what he gets from all that golfing.

I know lots of people enjoy golf. But to have the biggest job in the world and skip a quarter of it....Is it avoidance of the work, the people, the pressure? Does it have a calming effect like the music that his aides play when he gets upset? Does he imagine that he is Arnold Palmer?

[OldBaldy1701E]

42. Nope. King Farouk!

He loves to stroll (well, ride) around the greens and pretend that he is the 'Supreme Ruler of the Cosmos'.

[Maru Kitteh]

61. I think golf is an old familiar lie that makes him feel better. I'm glad he can't do it

anymore. He seemed to genuinely love it, and so I’m very glad he doesn’t seem physically capable of doing it any more.

I think he loved the idea of explaining every hole to his captive audience of fools and frauds each and every single time they played, over and over. What great taste I have. Wow I’m so good at buying things. Isn’t that great? Wow, I’m like a pro golfer. Let’s get back to the club so everyone can see you golfed with me and you can tell them how I won by a lot! Lather, rinse, repeat - Until July of last year. That’s the last time he’s been seen actually golfing rather than just photo-ops and riding around on a golf cart.

[Blue Owl]

34. Fatfuck von Golfcart has a bible to sell ya back at the clubhouse

[Buddyzbuddy]

35. Maybe God told him to golf. It is the 7th day.

[cstanleytech]

36. The balls he uses are the ones that the Congressional Republicans had before they cut them off to show their loyalty.

[jmowreader]

38. Of course he skipped it

If he went golfing he could charge the Secret Service for cart rentals, bottled water, restroom entrance fees and parking.

If he went to this rally he couldn’t.

[bmichaelh]

39. From Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER
Name not religion, for thou lov'st the flesh,
And ne'er throughout the year to church thou goes
Except it be to pray against thy foes.
--Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI 1.1.41-43

[Historic NY]

40. WAit until he finds out there is no golf in hell.

[FakeNoose]

50. Or even worse, there's golf in Hell and he won't be able to cheat

That's how Satan will really get his due.

[The Madcap]

56. There is indeed golf in Hell.

1. All the fairways are thick crabgrass and are only 20 feet wide.
2. Both sides of the fairway are jungle thicker than the Amazon rainforest, savage oceans full of great white sharks, or sand traps resembling the Sahara.
3. The greens are the size of a typical suburban driveway and are like a rubber mat. Any ball that hits them will immediately bounce off.
4. There are no carts.
5. There are no caddies.
6. There is no alcohol.
7. The holes are the same diameter as the golf balls plus about 2mm, allowing them to fit, but the putts have to be perfect.
8. Since it's Hell, every golfing day is hot, blazing hot, melting your scalp hot (and no stupid red hats allowed).
9. Every hole is 500+ yards long.
10. Every hole is a par 3.
11. Once you start a round, you have to finish all 18 holes. No turning back.
12. There is always an extremely slow foursome ahead of you and one obnoxious one behind you.
13. No holes are straight.
14. A round costs more than a month's rent in Hell, which is more than a San Francisco apartment in Hell Dollars.
15. Everyone playing is a better and more important person than you are.

Yes, there is golf in Hell...may he "enjoy" it when he gets there.

[electric_blue68]

58. Heh!

"Fore!..." ⛳️

I wonder where that yell came from?

[Ray Bruns]

59. "There is always an extremely slow foursome ahead of you and one obnoxious one behind you"

So this guy is ahead of you?

[The Madcap]

62. Could be, though I was thinking about the guys who yell

right when you are about to hit your shot from the fairway. They think they own the course.

[SorellaLaBefana]

43. John Steinbeck once observed

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

[BlueWavePsych]

44. Kick

[eppur_se_muova]

45. He's observing Sunday the Homer Simpson way.

Attending services is not even an option.

[Kid Berwyn]

46. Squaring the Hypocrisy

The orange traitor makes it look easy.

[SamuelAdams]

47. I remember when Republicans were very concerned about how often a president played golf and whether he attended church.

Of course, this was when Obama was president.

[Harker]

49. Nothing is more important than his little white balls.

[PATRICK]

51. You'll see more and more of less and less

of Trump. He's deteriorated so bad they veer him away from everything they can while being forced to reinforce his Triumph of the Will BS. He probably putters around a bit then dozes off or gets his virgin blood transfusion. Even his aides writing mad Truth Social texts is to keep the illusion alive, but it must be sick and arrogant to pass off. How easy to focus on plain outrage! He barely can speak without screwing it up or wander off. So, when he is is totally out of it- if not already- they can do this little theater and people will not ask the obvious question.
Any screws left in the old jar, any gas in the tank, anybody home except his staff?

[GCG]

52. All I saw on the news...

...were White Christian Nationalists and their TOKENS OF MANY COLORS!!!!

[Martin68]

55. LOL! He doesn't even pretend that he's at all interested in religion. His cult followers are brain dead.

[Iggo]

65. Christopretensist.