'Ivana rolling in her grave': Trump golf course at epicenter of quake spurs weird theories
The far-right gets a lot of credit for concocting conspiracy theories linked to the highest level of government, but an earthquake near former President Donald Trump's golf Friday gave Democrats a chance to shine.
Donald Trump’s National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Friday was at the epicenter of a magnitude 4.8 earthquake that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) warned was a message from God to "repent."
This spurred Trump biographer Tim O'Brien to reply, "Does MTG know the earthquake’s epicenter was a 12-minute drive from Trump’s Bedminster, NJ golf course?"
News spread fast that the golf course — among those Attorney General Letitia James considered seizing as Trump struggled to find a $464 million bond in his civil fraud trial — was at the heart of the day's quake.
"Now I'm not normally one of those Doomsday people," said X user the Real Thelma Johnson, "but with an Earthquake epicenter at Bedminster Golf Club, Lightning striking the Statue of Liberty, and the upcoming Eclipse... God is obviously very angry Donald Trump is not in jail."
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The Bedminster golf course is also where Trump's ex-wife Ivana was laid to rest not too far from the main clubhouse, as one source told the New York Post upon her death in 2022.
"Relax, New Jersey," wrote X user Marc Goldstein. "That was no earthquake. It was just Ivana rolling over and knocking down a stack of classified documents."
X user @dreamwithfaith agreed, adding, "That was Ivana rolling over in her grave cause the classified documents are getting too heavy."
Trump has dominated the 2024 news cycle as he became the first former president to head to court on criminal charges — his New York City hush money case is slated to go to trial on April 15 — and become the professional focus of journalists across the nation.
One of those reporters, Anna Bower, was among the first to chart the earthquake's proximity to the Bedminster golf course.
"Is there any news this man doesn’t touch?" the Lawfare reporter demanded to know on Friday.
Replied Eric Columbus, a former appointee of former President Barack Obama, "On Monday he’ll blot out the sun."