{"id":264621,"date":"2025-09-29T19:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:48:21","slug":"trump-responds-to-team-europe-after-ryder-cup-winners-taunting-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264621\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Responds to Team Europe After Ryder Cup Winners\u2019 Taunting Chant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">(Photo by: zz\/Dennis Van Tine\/STAR MAX\/IPx 2016 7\/21\/16)<\/p>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> congratulated Team Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup in Bethpage, New York, after raucous victory chant pointedly called him out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you watching, are you watching Donald Trump?\u201d the players shouted, trophy in hand, echoing the jeers of their supporters during the closing ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who had attended the event days <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/trump-receives-cheers-chants-usa-175347590.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:earlier;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier<\/a>, shared the clip Sunday as he responded on Truth Social: \u201cYes, I\u2019m watching. Congratulations!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"766\" height=\"644\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5bf4cc5c0b599f3811939ad4b75eb2a6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Trump congratulates Team Europe. (Screengrab via Truth Social)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Players and reporters accused sections of the Bethpage crowd, and even one of the official emcees, of crossing the line to <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/state-troopers-called-ryder-cup-200222659.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:heckle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heckle<\/a> Team Europe and, particularly, <strong>Rory McIlroy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Comedian <strong>Heather McMahan<\/strong> apologized and stepped down after leading a \u201cf*ck you Rory\u201d chant. The Northern Irishman endured taunting throughout the weekend, at one point snapping back at fans to \u201cshut the f*ck up\u201d while he was preparing a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Several spectators were ejected as European players battled through the jeers, fending off a fierce final-day comeback from the United States to seal a dramatic 15-13 Ryder Cup triumph at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyderCupEurope\/status\/1972495419927310744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1972495419927310744%7Ctwgr%5E0f7d38739ea0d546255bd512a579666cba2700c1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D5662997action%3Dedit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Celebrations continued;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Celebrations continued<\/a> as the team made their way back home.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-responds-to-team-europe-after-ryder-cup-winners-taunting-chant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trump Responds to Team Europe After Ryder Cup Winners\u2019 Taunting Chant;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Trump Responds to Team Europe After Ryder Cup Winners\u2019 Taunting Chant<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mediaite;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: zz\/Dennis Van Tine\/STAR MAX\/IPx 2016 7\/21\/16) President Donald Trump congratulated Team Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup in Bethpage,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[31748,69,1430,134178,405,8656,62,57666,67,132,68,138249],"class_list":{"0":"post-264621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bethpage","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-john-watson","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ryder-cup","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-team-europe","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-victory-chant"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115289319872362651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}