{"id":1319,"date":"2026-04-03T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:52:22","slug":"tiger-woods-told-police-he-was-on-the-phone-with-the-president-before-his-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods told police he was on the phone &#8216;with the president&#8217; before his arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>The Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Florida released on Thursday the footage filmed by the on-board cameras of police officers who arrested Tiger Woods after his car accident. The video shows the police arriving at the scene of the crash, which occurred on March 27, where the golf legend hit a truck before ending up, without injury, with the car on its side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to ask you to stay here with us,\u201d an officer said. \u201cYes, I was on the phone with the president,\u201d replies Woods, already out of his vehicle, who then appears surprised by his arrest for \u201cdriving under the influence\u201d, to which he pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder u-placeholder-twitter\" data-vendor=\"xtwitter-3cVkYrxq\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper u-hidden\">\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-lang=\"fr_FR\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Tiger Woods called President Trump from the scene of his rollover crash before his DUI arrest, per TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just talking with the President.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jRbdmsJIwS\">pic.twitter.com\/jRbdmsJIwS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Resist Wire (@ResistWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ResistWire\/status\/2039816505039143414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">\u201cI accept\u201d<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the Cookie management policy page<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\u201cVery close friend\u201d of Donald Trump<\/h2>\n<p>Woods, a golf superstar with 15 major titles, had passed a negative alcohol test but refused to submit to a urine test, and was in possession of painkillers when he was arrested. He was released eight hours later. Involved in several road accidents in recent years, he announced on Tuesday \u201cwithdrawal\u201d from golf in order to \u201cfollow treatment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Our file on Tiger Woods<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear from the video which \u201cpresident\u201d Woods is referring to. The golfer rubs shoulders with Donald Trump, who himself recalled on Friday that the star of the greens was a \u201cvery close friend\u201d. The former world number 1 has not competed since July 2024. A year ago, he had surgery for a ruptured left Achilles tendon, casting a shadow over the rest of his career, marred by injuries and operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Florida released on Thursday the footage filmed by the on-board cameras of police officers who arrested Tiger Woods after his car accident. The video shows the police arriving at the scene of the crash, which occurred on March 27, where the golf legend hit a truck before ending up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}