President Donald Trump has weighed in on his former daughter-in-law Vanessa Trump’s headline-grabbing romance with Tiger Woods following the couple’s PDA-packed Instagram announcement.
Earlier this month, DailyMail.com solely broke the information that the golf icon was relationship Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-wife.
The couple, who’ve been seeing one another since Thanksgiving, determined it was time to go public with their relationship on March 23. Woods posted photos with Vanessa on his Instagram and X accounts, declaring that ‘love is within the air.’
However earlier than going public with their budding romance, the couple had one significantly vital individual to interrupt the information to: The president.
And Trump revealed that Woods, who he claimed to have a ‘particular relationship’ with, personally knowledgeable him.
‘Tiger really referred to as me just a few months in the past,’ Trump stated, chatting with reporters from the Oval Workplace Monday.
President Donald Trump has delivered his verdict on Tiger Woods’ romance together with his former daughter-in-law Vanessa Trump
The golf energy couple went public with their romance in an Instagram put up on March 23
‘I’ve a particular, superb relationship with Tiger. I performed golf with him a few occasions over the previous month and he’s a improbable man and a improbable athlete.
‘He instructed me about it and I stated, “Tiger, that’s good.” I’m very joyful for each [of them]. Simply let each of them be joyful.’
The president, who teed it up with the 15-time main winner earlier than jetting into New Orleans for the Tremendous Bowl final month, additionally delivered his verdict on golf’s latest energy couple.
‘I really like Tiger and I really like Vanessa. They’d an awesome relationship,’ the Commander-in-Chief declared.
Nonetheless, the 78-year-old didn’t seem prepared to maneuver on from his son’s damaged marriage to the socialite, regardless of the couple divorcing in 2018.
‘I occur to suppose the connection with my son was damage very badly by the witch hunt [about] Russia, Russia, Russia and all of the c**p they put Don via,’ he continued.
‘Vanessa and Don had an excellent relationship. They’ve 5 unbelievable kids. All nice athletes, all good college students. They broke up fairly some time in the past, which, to me, was very unhappy as a result of I feel they’re each nice.’
Former mannequin and mom of 5 Vanessa filed for an uncontested divorce from Don Jr. on March 15, 2018 in New York. Since they formally cut up she has not had a high-profile relationship.
The golf star has been relationship Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-wife Vanessa since Thanksgiving. They’re pictured arriving at a golf match on February 16
Sources say Don Jr. is ‘cool’ together with his ex-wife’s new relationship – pictured collectively in 2015
Don Jr. has remained an in depth adviser to his father and helped take over a lot of the enterprise.
Woods, 49, and Vanessa, 47, who each dwell in Florida , have been collectively since Thanksgiving, DailyMail.com confirmed with 4 sources.
They dwell 20 minutes aside within the rich southern Florida enclave of Palm Seashore and have been noticed collectively at a golf match final month.
Vanessa’s eldest daughter Kai, 17, and Woods’ kids Charlie, 16, and Sam, 17, all attend $38,595-a-year The Benjamin Faculty collectively.
Woods and Vanessa have been absent from the Junior Invitational, a golf match in South Carolina, that each Kai and Charlie performed in earlier this month.
Don Jr. was additionally absent from the competition, regardless of sources saying he’s ‘cool’ together with his ex-wife’s new relationship. Woods’s ex-wife Elin Nordegren was additionally a no-show on the occasion.
It got here after DailyMail.com revealed that Woods referred to as Elin to inform her the information over fears that information of their tryst would leak.
He referred to as the 45-year-old shortly after they began relationship, with a supply revealing to DailyMail.com that the brief and awkward name solely lasted a couple of minutes.
DailyMail.com solely revealed that the golf icon was relationship Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-wife
Tiger’s children Sam (middle) and Charlie (left) attend college with Kai Trump at The Benjamin Faculty. Sam Alexis Woods, 17, performs soccer and Charlie Axel Woods, 16, additionally golfs
Neither Vanessa nor Woods attended the Junior Invitational earlier this month, regardless of each Kai Trump (pictured) and Charlie Woods competing in South Carolina
‘Tiger and Elin are supportive of one another’, they stated.
‘Her response at first was like “Critically? A Trump? For actual?”,’ the insider says. ‘She was extra amused than something. However she actually shortly simply accepted it.
‘They’re not the sort to present one another their “blessing” per se, however they preserve one another within the loop with anybody who’s going to spend any period of time across the children.’
On March 23, Woods posted photos with Vanessa on his Instagram and X accounts. One snap confirmed them posed in entrance of a vine-filled wall and one other of them cuddling on a hammock.
‘Love is within the air and life is best with you by my aspect! We look ahead to our journey via life collectively,’ Woods wrote. ‘Presently we’d admire privateness for all these near our hearts.’
The posts have been well-received, garnering lots of of 1000’s of likes and feedback, together with from Vanessa’s former sister-in-law Ivanka Trump and daughter, Kai.
The PGA Tour icon had initially wished to maintain his romance with Vanessa underneath wraps however was pressured to alter his plans after information of their budding relationship went public.
‘He knew it might be an enormous story when it got here out,’ a member of his internal circle instructed DailyMail.com final week. ‘And he didn’t precisely like it. However clearly Tiger relationship a Trump is at all times going to make headlines, which is strictly what he wished to keep away from.’
Don Jr. and Vanessa Kay Pergolizzi married in 1998 and had 5 kids collectively earlier than they divorced on the finish of 2018. Pictured: Vanessa and Don arrive on the Angel Ball on the Marriott Marquis in New York Metropolis on October 29, 2007
Don Jr. ended his engagement with Kimberly Guilfoyle publicly after it was revealed in September he was relationship Palm Seashore socialite Bettina Anderson. Pictured: Bettina and Don attend President Donald Trump’s joint handle to Congress on March 4, 2025 on the Capitol
Because the rumors unfold, tongues began wagging.
‘Benjamin is sort of a small neighborhood,’ says the insider, ‘and there’s nothing that wealthy folks love to do greater than gossip about one another. Frankly, I’m shocked that it was secret for thus lengthy.’
Woods and Vanessa dwell roughly 20 minutes aside in Palm Seashore, Florida and a supply revealed that the previous mannequin goes to the skilled golfer’s home just a few nights per week.
‘They only love hanging out, having dinner and schmoozing collectively,’ the insider stated.
Final month, on the PGA Tour’s Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines in California , they have been pictured arriving collectively however laid off the PDA in hopes that their relationship wouldn’t be came upon.
Kai, who dedicated to enjoying golf on the College of Miami subsequent 12 months, wore an outfit from Woods’ clothes line.
In February, Vanessa additionally took Kai to watch a spherical of the TGL, the golf league created by Woods and Rory McIlroy.
The golf legend, who hasn’t been in a high-profile relationship for greater than two years, has began relationship Vanessa amid doubts over his skilled future after a sequence of significant accidents.
On March 11, Woods confirmed that he had undergone one more surgical procedure, this time to restore a ruptured Achilles, which dominated out a return to The Masters in April.
Vanessa married the President’s oldest son in 2005 and had 5 kids. They divorced 13 years later.
Sources inform DailyMail.com that Vanessa is unworried about his 2009 intercourse scandal wherein he cheated on then-wife Elin Nordegren with a bevy of beauties.
