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Published 16:22 13 Apr 2026 GMT
Donald Trump has been caught on camera making comments about a woman's body while riding in a golf cart with his 17-year-old grandson.
The president, who turns 80 in June, was filmed at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sunday, and the clip has quickly gone viral for all the wrong reasons.
Trump was driving through his Florida golf course with his grandson, Donald Trump III - Don Jr's 17-year-old son - sitting beside him when he spotted a woman.
Without missing a beat, the president began shouting compliments about her physique from the moving cart.
"She's in great shape!" he said, driving with one hand as he pointed at the woman.
"She's in great shape, look at her."
He then pulled over, got out of the cart - leaving his teenage grandson behind - and fixed his belt before calling the woman over.
"You want a picture?" he asked.
"Come on over here."
Still apparently fixated, he added: "Is she in good shape or what?"
Trump then put his arm around the woman, who appeared to be a member at the club. He grabbed her hand as a crowd began to form around them, before asking: "You're all members, right?"
He then put his arm around her once more and asked: "Is that your husband?" - pointing towards the person filming.
The woman has been identified as Nina Coates, a golf content creator from Taiwan who is based in Miami.
Coates responded to the attention on social media with good humour, posting a clip of the encounter on TikTok alongside the words 'Yes I'm married' and a laughing face emoji.
How have people reacted?
As you might imagine, the clip hasn't gone down well with everybody.
Critics online were quick to share their thoughts, with one writing on X: "This is disgusting behaviour from a sitting president. His grandson is right there."
Another added: "Nearly 80 years old, commenting on a woman's body like she's a show horse. Embarrassing."
Others were more blunt. "Imagine being 17 and watching your grandad do this," one user wrote, while another simply posted: "This man is the President of the United States."
There were also those who drew comparisons to Trump's long history of making public comments about women's appearances.
The clip comes just weeks after Trump was criticised for complimenting Fox News host Dana Perino's looks on live television while she was asking him about whether Iranians had access to food and water during the ongoing conflict.
"Do you remember when we had lunch years ago at the base of Trump Tower? You haven't changed," Trump told Perino, before adding: "You may be even better looking, OK?" as reported by The Mirror.
The president was also found liable in 2023 for sexually abusing columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, and infamously boasted in the leaked 2005 'Access Hollywood' tape about grabbing women without consent.
Supporters, meanwhile, have largely brushed the golf course clip off as Trump being Trump - arguing that complimenting someone's fitness is hardly a scandal.
The incident comes amid ongoing scrutiny of Trump's time on the golf course.
A HuffPost analysis released late last month found that the president's golf outings have cost the taxpayer at least $101.2 million in travel and security expenses since he returned to office in January last year.
All three of Trump's wives have been younger than him. His current wife, First Lady Melania Trump, is 55 - some 24 years his junior.
His first wife, Ivana Trump, passed away in July 2022 at the age of 73.
Whether you see the clip as harmless fun or deeply uncomfortable viewing probably depends on where you already stand on Trump.
But either way, it's hard to imagine too many grandfathers behaving like that with a teenager sitting next to them.
