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Tiger Woods had astatine slightest 1 friend to thin connected soon aft his car clang that coiled up successful his conveyance rolled over.
Bodycam footage obtained by Fox News Digital showed Woods hanging up his phone, past telling an serviceman he was "talking to nan president."
After nan crash, Woods took a telephone telephone and walked down a thoroughfare for a moment. Woods walked backmost and distant connected nan telephone earlier an serviceman called him to travel backmost over.
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President Donald Trump presents nan Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods during an arena astatine nan White House Rose Garden successful Washington, D.C., connected May 6, 2019. (Scott Taetsch/USA TODAY Sports)
"Mr. Woods, fto maine get you to bent pinch america down here, please."
"Thank you truthful much. Alright, you sewage it. Thank you, bye," Woods said arsenic he ended his telephone call.
Woods past asked nan serviceman to repetition what he said, which nan serviceman did.
"Yeah, I was conscionable talking to nan president," Woods said calmly.
The shameless plug did not thief matters successful this situation, arsenic Woods was arrested for driving nether nan influence. Despite Woods blowing "triple-zeroes" connected a breathalyzer, Woods showed signs of impairment and was found pinch 2 pills of hydrocodone, a medicine opioid for symptom relief.
Tiger Woods poses pinch his boy Charlie Axel Woods, girl Sam Alexis Woods, U.S. President Donald Trump and first woman Melania Trump, aft being presented pinch nan Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremonial astatine nan White House successful nan Rose Garden successful Washington, D.C., connected May 6, 2019. (Scott Taetsch/USA TODAY Sports)
Woods antecedently told rule enforcement anterior to nan section sobriety tests that he underwent 7 backmost surgeries and "over 20 operations connected his leg." He told rule enforcement that "I return a few" medicine medications. In 2021, he sewage into a wreck that resulted successful superior limb injuries that kept him disconnected nan play people for nan full year.
President Donald Trump voiced his continued support for Woods, saying successful a caller question and reply that nan five-time Masters champion "lives a life of pain."
"He lives a life of pain. He has a batch of pain. He’s an astonishing guy. He’s an astonishing athlete. He does person pain," Trump added Tuesday of Woods. "He doesn’t person an intoxicant problem, but he does person pain."
Vanessa Trump, woman of Tiger Woods of Jupiter Links GC and her girl Kai Trump talk pinch Woods earlier a lucifer against The Bay Golf Club astatine SoFi Center connected March 3, 2026, successful Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. (Cliff Hawkins/TGL/TGL Golf/Getty Images)
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Shortly aft nan crash, Trump branded Woods arsenic a "very adjacent friend of mine" with "some difficulty." Woods dates Trump's erstwhile daughter-in-law, Vanessa, nan mother of nan president's granddaughter Kai.
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