{"id":27252,"date":"2025-05-09T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27252"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:46:09","slug":"tiger-woods-visits-the-white-house-after-going-public-with-vanessa-trump-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27252","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods Visits the White House After Going Public with Vanessa Trump Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subheading text-utility-300\">The golf icon&#8217;s trip comes a little over two months since he last visited 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and amid his recovery for a ruptured Achilles tendon<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-article-meta-dynamic_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-article-meta-dynamic mntl-article-meta mntl-block pre-content\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<div id=\"people-bylines_1-0\" class=\"comp people-bylines mntl-bylines text-utility-200\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-universal-callout theme-needtoknow\" data-tracking-id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mntl-sc-block-universal-callout__heading\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<div class=\"mntl-sc-block-universal-callout__body\">\n<ul>\n<li>Tiger Woods was seen at the White House on Thursday, May 8<\/li>\n<li>The golf icon was pictured alongside Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Woods visited the White House in February to celebrate Black History Month with President Donald Trump<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/tiger-woods\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Tiger Woods<\/a>\u00a0was back at the White House this week, for the first time since going public with his relationship with Vanessa Trump.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_3-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The golf icon, 49, was pictured alongside Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana in a photo shared to X on Thursday, May 8.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_5-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\u201cMet @TigerWoods at the White House today!\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenatorBanks\/status\/1920644503108567388\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Banks wrote<\/a>, and added the American flag and golf emojis.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_7-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Woods\u2019 visit comes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/vanessa-trump-supports-tiger-woods-instagram-post-11714062\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">two months after going Instagram official with Trump<\/a>, 47, the ex-wife of President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s son,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/donald-trump-jr\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\">Donald Trump Jr.<\/a>, and roughly three months after he last appeared at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">\u00a0PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">In February, Woods\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-black-history-month-dei-tiger-woods.html\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">was on hand to celebrate Black History Month<\/a>\u00a0and also attended meetings with President Trump, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan regarding merging LIV Golf and the PGA Tour,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2025\/02\/20\/tiger-woods-donald-trump-white-house-reception-black-history-month\/79341907007\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\"><em>Golfweek<\/em>\u00a0previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block collapsed\">\n<div id=\"mm-ads-native-fluid_1-0\" class=\"comp mm-ads-native-fluid mm-ads-native \" data-right-rail-index=\"2\">\n<div id=\"mm-ads-native__adunit_1-0\" class=\"comp mm-ads-native__adunit mm-ads-gpt-dynamic-adunit mm-ads-gpt-adunit scads-to-load gpt native dynamic js-immediate-ad js-immediate-ad-loaded\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Just weeks later, a source close to the Trump family confirmed to PEOPLE that Vanessa, 47, and Woods had been quietly dating for several months.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_18-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">It was not immediately clear why Woods made another trip to the White House this week, but the president confirmed that he had met with him,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmonthly.com\/news\/tiger-woods-spotted-making-surprise-visit-to-the-white-house\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">according to\u00a0<em>Golf Monthly<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Woods and Vanessa share a connection through their golf-star kids \u2014 his son Charlie, 16, and her daughter Kai, who turns 18 on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\u201cTheir kids are going places in golf and both are very disciplined about the sport. They have that in common,&#8221; an insider told PEOPLE in March, and added that the relationship was at the time \u201cvery casual.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_23-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">A second source close to Trump told PEOPLE that her relationship with someone of Tiger&#8217;s status is unsurprising.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_25-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;Vanessa has always gone for guys who are either well known or have something big going for them,&#8221; the source told PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_27-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Woods\u2019 D.C. date comes as he continues to rehab a ruptured Achilles tendon, which kept him out of the Masters last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The golf icon&#8217;s trip comes a little over two months since he last visited 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and amid his recovery for a ruptured Achilles tendon NEED TO &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27254,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27252\/revisions\/27254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}