President Donald Trump talked Friday about going to the NCAA Wrestling Championships on Saturday.
Trump told journalists outside the White House that he is on his way to Philadelphia to participate in the last rounds of the tournament as the Penn State seems to close the championship with a significant 90.5 lead over second place Nebraska of 62.5 and third place Oklahoma of 61.0.
“We’re going to the big fight. The reason I go to Philadelphia. They have ncaa, world, wrestling for college. And I’ve always supported Wrestlers,” Trump said. “So I want to support them. These are the big college -Wrestlers from the different schools. I think the Penn State is a leader and Nebraska is in second right now. And a lot of good things.”
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Penn State Nittany Lions is after winning the NCAA-Wrestling title at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 23, 2024. (Reese Strickland-USA Today Sports)
Outkick co-founder Clay Travis broke the news that Trump would attend the event Tuesday when he said in an X-post he would travel “With” the president on the “Air Force One” to the championship.
The White House confirmed Friday that Trump would attend the event.
President of House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, also reportedly joins Trump in Philadelphia, a source familiar with his plans, Pakinomist told Digital.
Jordan himself was a noted wrestling champion of his time in high school and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he won the NCAA Division I-men’s wrestling title twice. He was later assistant coach at Ohio State University’s Wrestling program from 1987 to 1995.
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President Donald Trump, flanked by daughter Ivanka Trump, speaks before signing the national security presidential memorandum to launch the “Women’s Global Development and Prosperity” initiative in the White House of Washington, DC, on February 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Senator Dave McCormick, R-PA., Will also tag with. McCormick previously confirmed that Trump would be present at the event in senator’s home State of Pennsylvania.
“I’m excited to be in Philadelphia this weekend with [Trump] Before [NCAA Wrestling] Championship, “McCormick wrote on X.” I grew up fighting in small towns across PA and at West Point. It taught me gravel, resilience and hard work. “
President Donald Trump goes on the southern lawn of the White House of Washington, DC, November 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
The Wrestling championships return to Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center for the first time since 2011, when Penn State took advantage of being in their home state and won it all. It started a dominant race by the Nittany Lions, which is still going – they have won eight of the last 11 of the last 13 titles, including each of the last three.
With a win on Saturday, it would be their third four-peat in that stretch.
