Tiger Woods told authorities he was 'talking to the president' before DUI arrest, bodycam footage shows

Tiger Woods had astatine slightest 1 person to thin connected soon aft his car clang that coiled up successful his conveyance rolled over.

Bodycam footage obtained by Fox News Digital showed Woods hanging up his phone, past telling an serviceman helium was "talking to the president."

After the crash, Woods took a telephone telephone and walked down a thoroughfare for a moment. Woods walked backmost and distant connected the telephone earlier an serviceman called him to travel backmost over.

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President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods during an lawsuit astatine the White House Rose Garden successful Washington, D.C., connected May 6, 2019. (Scott Taetsch/USA TODAY Sports)

"Mr. Woods, fto maine get you to bent with america down here, please."

"Thank you truthful much. Alright, you got it. Thank you, bye," Woods said arsenic helium ended his telephone call.

Woods past asked the serviceman to repetition what helium said, which the serviceman did.

"Yeah, I was conscionable talking to the president," Woods said calmly.

The shameless plug did not assistance matters successful this situation, arsenic Woods was arrested for driving nether the influence. Despite Woods blowing "triple-zeroes" connected a breathalyzer, Woods showed signs of impairment and was recovered with 2 pills of hydrocodone, a medicine opioid for symptom relief.

Tiger Woods poses with his lad Charlie Axel Woods, girl Sam Alexis Woods, U.S. President Donald Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump, aft being presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremonial astatine the White House successful the Rose Garden successful Washington, D.C., connected May 6, 2019. (Scott Taetsch/USA TODAY Sports)

Woods antecedently told instrumentality enforcement anterior to the tract sobriety tests that helium underwent 7 backmost surgeries and "over 20 operations connected his leg." He told instrumentality enforcement that "I instrumentality a few" medicine medications. In 2021, helium got into a wreck that resulted successful superior limb injuries that kept him disconnected the play people for the full year.

President Donald Trump voiced his continued enactment for Woods, saying successful a caller interrogation that the five-time Masters champion "lives a beingness of pain."

"He lives a beingness of pain. He has a batch of pain. He’s an astonishing guy. He’s an astonishing athlete. He does person pain," Trump added Tuesday of Woods. "He doesn’t person an intoxicant problem, but helium does person pain." 

Vanessa Trump, woman of Tiger Woods of Jupiter Links GC and her girl Kai Trump speech with Woods earlier a lucifer against The Bay Golf Club astatine SoFi Center connected March 3, 2026, successful Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. (Cliff Hawkins/TGL/TGL Golf/Getty Images)

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Shortly aft the crash, Trump labeled Woods arsenic a "very adjacent person of mine" with "some difficulty." Woods dates Trump's erstwhile daughter-in-law, Vanessa, the parent of the president's granddaughter Kai.

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