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President Donald Trump has weighed in on fallout facing Jaxson Dart after the Giants quarterback gave a warm welcome to the president at a rally last week.
Dart has been met with criticism — including from one of his own teammates — after he made an unannounced appearance ahead of Trump’s recent speech on the economy in Rockland County, just north of the New Jersey state border.
“What’s up, what’s up, what’s up. Look, Big Blue Nation it’s a pleasure to be here,” Dart told a crowd of thousands of the president’s supporters last Friday. “And without further ado, I’m grateful, I’m honored, I’m pleased to introduce the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America: President Donald J. Trump.”
After the two men embraced on stage, Trump stepped to the lectern and opened his remarks with high praise for Dart.
“This is gonna be a future Hall of Famer in my book,” Trump said of the Giants’ 2025 first-round pick. “Thank you, Jaxson. Lot of talent.”
The president referenced Dart throughout his address, from describing him as a “beautiful guy” to joking about the administration’s agenda to ban transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.
Trump is now responding to Dart’s introduction, which has prompted backlash from critics and rocked the sports world. In a snippet of an upcoming interview with Fox News, the president first complimented Dart’s looks before saying that he has “tremendous potential.”
“So, when Jaxson gets harassed a little bit, he’s also loved more,” Trump told his daughter-in-law during a sit-down interview on “My View with Lara Trump,” which airs on Saturday. “Because we have more people than they do.”
“And a lot of the people that you think, like people in Los Angeles, wealthy people that you — I see them all the time there, hitting me a little bit,“ he added. ”And they meet me, they say, ‘Sir, I voted for you.’ I said, ‘I know. I know. I can tell.’"
While the appearance generated reactions across social media and sports talk shows, it spilled into the locker room, with outside linebacker Abdul Carter writing in a since-deleted post on X last weekend that he “thought the video was AI,” before asking, “what are we doing.”
Carter later said that he and Dart are “good” and “spoke earlier as Men” in another post.
ESPN and NFL Network also reported that Dart addressed his teammates Tuesday about the introduction. According to sources, Giants leaders including Brian Burns, Kayvon Thibodeaux and Jameis Winston were among those that spoke.
In his first public statement, Dart on Friday addressed why he made the introduction for Trump.
“My thinking was pretty simple in the fact, I’ve always loved this country, I have extended family members who have fought in wars, I have two uncles who have retired from the Air Force academy and served themselves,” Dart said. “I even have a great grandfather who served as the secretary of the treasury at some point. The president position has always been a position I’ve well respected regardless of political affiliation, regardless of political party and my intentions were just that.”
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