Tiger Woods Called ‘The President’ While Cops Investigated Crash
Tiger Woods walked away from the cops responding to his rollover crash last Friday to phone a friend: apparently, President Donald J. Trump.
That revelation came from police body camera footage obtained on Thursday and published by TMZ. It adds to the saga of Woods’ latest car wreck and the criminal charges he now faces. Woods pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence following his March 27 arrest after his SUV clipped the trailer being pulled by another vehicle he was trying to pass and rolled over on its side.
Cops said in their report that Woods appeared impaired and submitted to a breathalyzer test, which registered all zeroes. But the golfer refused a urine test and was locked up on that basis. Cops also said they found two hydrocodone pills, an opioid painkiller, in his possession.
The body camera video shows Woods walking a short distance from the crash scene and making a phone call. An officer approaches to ask him to return to the scene.
“I just need you down here with us, please,” the officer says.
“Yeah,” Woods says in response, slipping his phone back into his pocket. “I was just talking to the president.”
Later that afternoon Trump told reporters at an event in Miami that he knew Woods had had an accident but gave no further details and didn’t say he’d spoken with the golfer.
“I feel so badly. He’s got some difficulty. There was an accident and that’s all I know. Very close friend of mine. He’s an amazing person, amazing man. But some difficulty,” Trump said at the Future Investment Initiative Priority Summit.
On March 31, Trump told the New York Post in an interview that Woods “is under a tremendous physical pressure from his various ailments,” and that, “He lives a life of pain.”
Trump and Woods have a longtime friendship, and Woods is currently dating Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. and mother of several of the president’s grandchildren. Vanessa Trump posted an Instagram story the morning of April 3: a picture of her and Woods captioned “love you”.
Woods said earlier this week that he was leaving golf, and the United States, to seek treatment, although he didn’t specify what for.
