Donald Trump has abandoned his press pool before during the transition period, to eat dinner with his family at a New York steakhouse. | Getty Trump ditches press pool to play golf

President-elect Donald Trump ditched his press pool Saturday, traveling from his Palm Beach, Florida, residence to play golf at his club in Jupiter.

Trump made the trip from Mar-a-Lago to Trump National Golf Club Jupiter accompanied by Secret Service agents but without his pool of journalists, transition aide Stephanie Grisham confirmed to a pool reporter.


“It was a last-minute decision to play golf, nothing more," Grisham said.

Grisham earlier said in a statement to the Associated Press: "We are in the home stretch of this transition period and don't anticipate any additional situations like this between now and inauguration. We hope this one incident doesn't negate all the progress we have made and look forward to continuing the great relationships we have built."

The president-elect has abandoned his press pool before during the transition period, to eat dinner with his family at a New York steakhouse.

Dr. Eric Kaplan, whose biography on a speakers' circuit website lists him as an expert on wellness and "speaker to Trump family and organization," tweeted photos of the president-elect at the course.

Proud to stand With President elect Trump, this is a gracious man, and he will make America Great Again in 2017 pic.twitter.com/GH8SrpyH35 — Dr. Eric Kaplan (@drekaplan) December 31, 2016