We don’t know if Rory McIlroy regularly tunes in to ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” But if he was happening to watch the program last Sunday, he would have seen himself become the target of truly out-of-nowhere swipe.

Rory McIlroy is no stranger to scrutiny, but even he didn’t expect to be a topic of conversation in the US presidential election coverage. The golf star was an unlikely topic of conversation

Rory McIlroy was used as the butt of a joke live on TV from former a White House Chief of Staff while debating the current US presidential election. The 2024 election for the next US president takes place on November 5 with both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris ramping up their campaigns.