Trump golfs with football great Brett Favre at N.J. golf club

Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre, who spent a year playing in New Jersey as a member of the New York Jets, was back in the Garden State Saturday golfing with President Donald Trump.

White House spokesman Judd Deere said Favre, who starred as a member of the Green Bay Packers, hit the links with the president at his Bedminster golf club.

Jets owner Woody Johnson, currently U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, is a big contributor to the president’s campaign.

Trump is spending the weekend at Bedminster for only the second time this year. He often has decamped to the golf club during the warmer months.

The president was scheduled later Saturday to attend a fundraising event at the golf club, according to the White House.

Trump’s trip was his third to New Jersey in 2020. In mid-June, when he headlined a fundraiser for his re-election campaign and dined with Gov. Phil Murphy.

The other was a political rally in Wildwood in January in support of party-switching Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-2nd Dist.

He canceled two other planned visits to Bedminster.

Coming into this weekend, Trump has spent 94 days at Bedminster during his presidency, behind only the 133 days he spent at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, according to NBC News.

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Jonathan D. Salant may be reached at jsalant@njadvancemedia.com.

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