Trump Hosts Saudi-Backed LIV Golf at His Doral Resort as Sitting President

In April 2025, Trump National Doral in Miami hosted the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament, marking the fourth consecutive year the circuit visited the property but the first time it did so with Trump in office as a sitting president. LIV Golf is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, and Eric Trump, an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, publicly welcomed the tournament back to the family's course. The event mattered because it combined a foreign government-backed sports enterprise, a Trump-owned commercial property, and the presidency itself in a single recurring arrangement, reviving longstanding emoluments and foreign-influence concerns that first arose during Trump's first term and continued into his second. The administration described Trump's presence as informal diplomacy and business as usual for a president who retained his commercial properties. Ethics watchdogs argued that hosting a Saudi-funded tournament at a presidentially owned resort blurred public office and private profit in a way with few historical precedents.