When did Donald Trump last play golf in 2025?
Executive summary
Available reporting indicates President Donald Trump was publicly documented playing golf over the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend — with video and press coverage dated Nov. 29–30, 2025 — and outlets cite that he played rounds that weekend at his West Palm Beach area club with guests including Brooks Koepka and Wayne Gretzky [1] [2]. Multiple trackers and news analyses cite dozens of golf days in 2025 and place his total golf-related taxpayer costs near $70–$71 million through late 2025 [3] [4] [5].
1. Last publicly reported outing: Thanksgiving weekend, late November 2025
Multiple outlets reported and published footage of Trump playing golf over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Fox News ran a clip of him sinking a chip during a round featuring Brooks Koepka, Wayne Gretzky and Bret Baier and timed that coverage to the weekend; the Daily Mail and Palm Beach Post also place those rounds at the end of November [1] [6] [2]. Those pieces — dated around Nov. 29–30, 2025 — are the most recent specific, sourced public accounts among the supplied material [1] [2].
2. Independent trackers corroborate frequent play but exact “last” day varies by source
Specialized trackers such as DonaldTrumpGolfToday and Trump Golf Track maintain day-by-day logs and counts of the president’s golf outings in 2025; news outlets rely on those trackers to produce tallies [7] [8]. The Palm Beach Post and other reporting cite the trackers when giving cumulative totals (for example, 49 golf days by August and 77 by late November in some summaries), but exact “last played” dates are best verified against those live trackers rather than static news articles [3] [2].
3. How news organizations date outings: photos, videos and White House posts
News stories about Trump’s most recent rounds often rely on White House social posts, viral video, and media on-site reporting — for example the White House posting about a “Men’s Senior Club Championship” win at Bedminster in August and Truth Social/White House media used for the Thanksgiving weekend clips [3] [2]. When outlets publish a dated video or photo, that becomes the public marker for “last played” in their reporting [2] [1].
4. Broader picture: frequency and fiscal context
Reporting in late 2025 frames Trump’s golf as frequent and costly. HuffPost-based analyses and summaries cited by The Independent, PennLive and others place golf-related taxpayer costs near $70–$71 million through 2025 and project that total could grow toward $300 million across the term if the pace continues — figures that news outlets repeatedly reference [4] [9] [5]. Those cost calculations are built on prior GAO-derived per-trip estimates and are described in the reporting as projections rather than precise audited totals [4] [10].
5. Conflicting emphases and political framing
Different outlets use the same golf events to make contrasting points. Sports and local papers document celebrity guests and tournament-style play at Trump courses [2] [3]. Investigative or opinion outlets emphasize taxpayer expense and ethics questions, citing the same set of outings to argue for fiscal scrutiny [4] [5] [10]. Readers should note each outlet’s emphasis: sports pieces treat the rounds as social/sporting news, while political outlets use the outings to evaluate cost and presidential conduct [1] [4].
6. What these sources do not say
Available sources in your packet do not provide an official, single-source Secret Service or White House log that stamps an authoritative “last played” date; they instead rely on public posts, trackers and media coverage (not found in current reporting). If you need an official, timestamped confirmation of the final golf date in 2025, available sources do not mention an authoritative government schedule or Secret Service release to that effect (not found in current reporting).
7. How to confirm the precise “last played” date
To pinpoint the last round in 2025 with highest confidence, consult the daily entries of the dedicated trackers cited by news outlets (DonaldTrumpGolfToday; Trump Golf Track) and cross-check with dated photos/videos or White House/Truth Social posts cited in the press [7] [8] [2]. News coverage around Nov. 29–30, 2025 provides the latest specific public account in the materials you provided [1] [2].
Limitations: this summary relies solely on the supplied documents; no Secret Service logs, official White House daily schedules or later December 2025 reports were included among the sources reviewed (not found in current reporting).