ESPN host Pat McAfee is standing by his choice to interview President Donald Trump on his present on Veterans Day.
“For the quick individuals which might be going to be mad about that taking place, it’s the President of the US,” he mentioned on the Tuesday, November 11 episode of The Pat McAfee Present. “It’s Veterans Day. He’s the Commander-in-Chief. Clearly, if now we have the chance to speak to him, we’re going to. And he’s hilarious.”
McAfee, 38, added that his present additionally “reached out to former President Barack Obama after Trump turned an choice to be interviewed.” The forty fourth President, nevertheless, was “unable to affix attributable to scheduling conflicts.”
The choice to interview Trump, 79, on-air appears to be a reversal of McAfee’s earlier philosophy. He mentioned in 2024 that he doesn’t imagine viewers needed to listen to him speak about politics.
“I haven’t polled our crowd however I’m fairly sure that no person’s wanting to return hangout with us to listen to us speak about politics,” McAfee wrote by way of X on the time.
He continued, “I believe it’s in all probability an enormous cause for our success truly… so all of this has been reminder of what we’re good for, and who we’re good for. Some day, I’ll try to construct up sufficient of a mind to dive into the politics world however that point is nowhere close to now.”
A yr later, McAfee and Trump had a wide-ranging dialog that included wholesome doses of politics and sports activities. Trump even weighed in on the state of faculty athletics.
At a time of fast change as colleges attempt to regulate to the ever-changing title, picture and likeness guidelines, Trump bemoaned the lack of the so-called “non-revenue” sports activities, which in some instances are being reduce or in any other case de-emphasized on campus.
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“Numerous the lesser sports activities are being terminated,” he mentioned. “It’s a disgrace, it was nearly like a coaching floor for the Olympics and quite a lot of these coaching grounds are being misplaced.”
He additionally predicted that even big-time faculty soccer applications wouldn’t be capable of sustain with the rising value of fielding elite expertise.
“It’s a very significant issue as a result of even soccer, after they give quarterbacks $12 million, $13 million, $14 million, …impulsively you’re going to see it’s going to be uncontrolled,” Trump mentioned. “And even wealthy faculties are going to go bust since you’re not going to have the ability to do that.”
It needs to be famous that whereas colleges can now pay athletes by income sharing, they’re capped at $20.5 million for the whole athletic division.
Trump himself is an avid sports activities fan and has traveled to stadiums nationwide throughout his two phrases in workplace. As President, he has taken within the Military-Navy soccer sport, visited the New York Yankees of their clubhouse, seen the Tremendous Bowl reside and caught the Daytona 500.
Trump has even reportedly expressed a want to have the brand new Washington Commanders’ stadium named after himself.
Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; Jim McIsaac/Getty Photos Pat McAfee has introduced that Aaron Rodgers is not going to make any future appearances on his ESPN present this season amid the NFL star’s controversial feedback. “So Aaron Rodgers Tuesdays season 4 is finished,” McAfee, 36, mentioned in the course of the Wednesday, January 10 episode of The Pat McAfee Present. “There shall be […]
“That may absolutely be a fantastic title, because it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the brand new stadium potential,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt advised Us Weekly in an announcement on Saturday, November 8.
He additionally appeared within the Fox broadcast sales space in the course of the sport between the Commanders and Detroit Lions on Sunday, November 9, the place he talked about his personal highschool soccer days and opened up about his love for sports activities.
“It’s a microcosm of life,” he mentioned. “It’s kind of like life, you realize? The great, the unhealthy and the ugly, proper?”
