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Detroit Lions star Amon-Ra St. Brown apologized to anyone who was “offended” by his tribute to President Donald Trump during his team’s win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
St. Brown performed Trump’s signature dance after scoring a touchdown, then pointed at the president, who was in attendance at Northwest Stadium.
Brown addressed the incident and public reaction during an episode of his podcast on Wednesday.
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Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown celebrates after scoring in the first half of an NFL football game against the Washington Commanders, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, in Landover, Maryland. (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Photo)
“If I offended anyone, I apologize. I didn’t mean to offend anyone. We’re just having fun,” he said. “If a president was at that game, if they had a dance, I would have done it. It had nothing to do with who the president was.”
Trump became the first sitting US president to attend a regular season NFL game since Jimmy Carter in 1978.
For St. Brown it was a special occasion.
“Even after the game, somebody’s telling me, ‘It’s the first game a president has been to in over 40 years,’ first regular season game, which is crazy,” St. Brown. “We were just having fun dancing, that was nothing more, nothing less.”
Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jourdan Lewis appeared to shout St. Brown for dancing in a since-deleted social media post.
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Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (14) celebrates a touchdown against the Washington Commanders in the first half at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Junfu Han/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
“The truth will come out,” he wrote on Monday night, before separately adding: “Doing it in one of the blackest cities in America?”
Lewis who is from Detroit and played college at Michigan, deleted the latter post.
St. Brown’s Lions went on to beat Washington 44-22 as he finished with five catches for 58 yards and the touchdown.
Trump has attended plenty of sporting events over the past 13 months. In addition to the Pittsburgh Steelers game last season and the Super Bowl, he has been to UFC games, the Daytona 500, the US Open and the Ryder Cup.
Some Commanders fans at Sunday’s game were the subject of controversy after they booed Trump when he read the names of those enlisting in the U.S. military over the team’s public address system. The new members of the military were at Northwest Stadium as part of the NFL’s “Salute to Service” festivities ahead of Veterans Day.
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The boost came at a time when prospects for Trump in the Washington, DC area were affected by the recent government shutdown. Days before the game, ESPN reported that Trump wants the Commander’s new $3.7 billion stadium project to be named after him.
The White House did not confirm the report, but in an earlier statement, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “It would certainly be a beautiful name, since it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible.”
