Kai Trump On How Sports Keep Her Close To Her Grandfather, Especially On The Golf Course

Kai Trump's emotion of play began astatine nan property of 2, and she credits her grandfather, President Donald Trump, arsenic personification who helps cultivate her passion for nan game. 

It's nary concealed nan 47th president of nan United States loves to get retired connected nan play people erstwhile he can, and his ain emotion for nan athletics is 1 of nan galore things his 18-year-old granddaughter says keeps their enslaved strong. 

Kai, who will play play astatine nan University of Miami successful 2026, said to Fox News Digital astir really sports play a domiciled successful her narration pinch her grandfather.

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Donald Trump, 2nd from left, watches his granddaughter, Kai Trump, play play astatine Trump National Doral Miami play nine Oct. 27, 2022, successful Miami, Fla. (Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images)

"Me and him are very close, and we enslaved complete golf. So, he influenced maine a batch pinch golf, particularly erstwhile I was talking astir schools and colleges," she said, discussing her NIL business pinch Accelerator Active Energy. "He loved that I was going to Miami because Trump Doral was correct location arsenic well, truthful he’s influenced maine a batch pinch golf."

President Trump has spent clip pinch his granddaughter connected nan play people complete nan years arsenic she worked connected her trade to get to this constituent of competing astatine nan Division I level. 

Even earlier his governmental career, Trump's emotion of play led to 15 courses being tally by Trump Golf, 11 of which are successful nan U.S. Kai has played those courses, while being exposed to resources she knows not each golfer has had nan opportunity to person learning nan game. 

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"I was very, very lucky, and I’m evidently very thankful for each nan resources I had," she explained. "Obviously, I utilized those resources to create into a awesome golfer now. But I’m very fortunate because not galore group person those opportunities increasing up." 

But it's not conscionable golf. President Trump's passion for sports is overmuch much broad. 

For example, UFC matches are a predominant extremity for nan president, and Kai joined her grandfather and different family members successful Miami for UFC 314. She walked alongside him arsenic he entered nan Kaseya Center to a raucous crowd. 

"I don’t deliberation I ever heard specified a large arena successful my full life," she said astir nan experience. "But it was really cool to spot everyone supporting him, particularly successful Miami. It was really nice. And erstwhile I was driving there, I stopped by my schoolhouse conscionable to spot nan field and what not. It was really cool." 

Donald Trump walks pinch niece Kai Trump and her mother, Vanessa Trump, during nan Pro-Am up of nan LIV Golf Team Championship Oct.. 27, 2022, astatine Trump National Doral Golf Club successful Doral, FL. (Michele Eve Sandberg/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

While Kai isn't a shot instrumentality for illustration her grandfather, they do stock a emotion for sports extracurricular of golf. 

"We person watched a batch of tennis together," she revealed. "I emotion tennis. I grew up really playing tennis erstwhile I was 2 years old, conscionable for illustration golf. So, I started pinch tennis and golf. We bask watching that together, particularly for illustration Wimbledon. I cognize it was yesterday, but we bask doing that together."

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Being a assemblage jock successful today's NCAA intends having nan expertise to profit from your brand, and Kai has already developed a pursuing done her societal media and contented creation passions. 

She struck an NIL business pinch Accelerator Active Energy, becoming nan brand's first play NIL partner, while besides being an equity partner. 

Kai Trump says her emotion of play has been influenced by her grandfather, President Donald Trump. (Accelerator)

Accelerator Active Energy is nan marque that earned acclaim for launching "The Livvy Fund" pinch erstwhile assemblage gymnastics champion Livvy Dunne to support women's assemblage athletes. Dunne is besides an equity partner, arsenic is Kansas City Chiefs superstar Travis Kelce. 

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A presidential-themed video successful which Kai addresses "fellow Americans and contented creators" announced nan move, which she could not beryllium much excited about. 

"It's beautiful cool, particularly being partners pinch specified awesome athletes and being up location to pinch him," she said.

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