Trump won the second round of the Senior Club Championship on Saturday at his own Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. This means he will play in the Championship Round on Sunday.

Many in the media were quick to point out how tone-deaf the announcement sounded at the end of a rough week. For example, CNN’s Jake Tapper said, “Great news, everyone!!!!!” and Chuck Todd, head of Meet the Press, wrote on X, “Just astonishingly tone deaf.” Crash the world economy and then play golf with people who look like Washington Generals over the weekend. It’s pretty clear that he doesn’t want to run for office again.

Others said that Trump’s announcement of his victory at his own golf course was like Kim Jong Un’s announcements at North Korea’s Supreme Leader. Sarah Longwell from The Bulwark tweeted, “Our President caused an economic downturn by the end of the week and is now spending the weekend golfing while sharing North Korea-style updates regarding it.”

Other X users shared a picture of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as a Fox News newsreader wearing a traditional Korean hanbok. The picture was changed to make Trump look like Kim Jong Un, and it said, “Dear Leader won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship.

A lot of people said that Trump was like other famously out-of-touch past figures. CNN’s Ana Navarro-Cárdenas joked, “Let them eat cake,” in reference to the quote that was wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette. Other people shared a picture of Trump as Nero, who is known for fiddling while Rome burned.

David Frum of The Atlantic wrote on X that Trump was like another Roman leader: “One of the emperor Augustus’s best ways to legitimise his authoritarian rule: he made a point of losing games, joked about it, and gladly paid his forfeits.” Fellow members of the Roman elite thought his rule was less random and scary because of this.

Trump has never been a man of the people, even when he tries to speak to his base. But it’s clear that golfing while the stock market crashes is too much for many people. This is especially true when you consider that Trump skipped a ceremony for four dead soldiers to play golf instead, sending Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth instead.

Many veterans and their spouses told Mediaite they were furious that Trump didn’t go to Dover Air Force Base to see the proper transfer of four soldiers who died in a training exercise in Lithuania.

One veteran told the outlet, “I can’t even begin to express my disgust with what this administration is doing to the troops and the veterans…” “I’m going to hang out with the Saudis because I like golf? Coming home from dying in service makes me sick to my stomach at the very least.”