Professional golfer Bryson DeChambeau with President Donald Trump in the White House, Monday, June 2, 2025 (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosia/Flickr)
Back in 1972 during Richard Nixon's presidency, the late astronaut Eugene Cernan became the 11th person — and the last — to walk on the moon. Cernan, who passed away in 2017, commanded the Apollo 17 mission and is remembered as an historic figure in space travel. And during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, astronaut Alan Shepard famously played golf on the moon.
But golfer Bryson DeChambeau, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, is questioning the authenticity of moon landing footage from the early 1970s.
DeChambeau voiced what Daily Beast reporter Cameron Adams describes as a "wild conspiracy theory" during a Tuesday, May 19 appearance on the podcast hosted by far-right Trump ally Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller.
When Katie Miller asked DeChambeau if he believed Trump played golf on the moon, he responded, "I don't know."
DeChambeau said of the moon landing footage, "I don't think the footage is real. But I think we did go to the moon. I don't know about the footage. It's quite…. it's quite wild."
DeChambeau referenced billionaire SpaceX/Tesla leader Elon Musk, telling Katie Miller that if Musk believes American astronauts landed on the moon in the early 1970s, that's good enough for him.
The golfer argued, "Look, Elon says we've definitely gone there. So I tend to go that route, because he's the man that knows quite a bit about all that. Artemis just went around the moon. So, I do believe if we spent a lot of our resources like they say we did, I think we did."
Nonetheless, DeChambeau questioned the authenticity of the moon landing footage.
Adams notes, however, that the footage's authenticity has been repeatedly verified over the years.
"Despite the claims of conspiracy theorists," Adams explains, "the moon landings are the most verified achievement in history, according to NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographing Apollo sites, astronaut paths, and equipment left decades ago."
DeChambeau, Adams points out, explored other conspiracy theories during his appearance on Katie Miller's podcast.
The golfer and Trump ally told her, "I do believe in UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), UFOs. I think they're more than just aliens from another world. They may be aliens from another world, but I think there’s more to that story."
Katie Miller's podcast has attracted a long list of prominent MAGA Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana).