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President Donald Trump criticized the New York Giants after the team decided to play aggressive late in the game to go up three points against the Detroit Lions rather than score a field goal to extend their lead to six points.
Instead, Giants quarterback Jameis Winston fumbled and overthrew tight end Theo Johnson. The Lions marched down the field after the turnover on downs and scored the tying field goal. Detroit ultimately won the game 34-27 in overtime on a Jahmyr Gibbs touchdown run.
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President Donald Trump and Chelsea President Todd Boehly during the trophy presentation after the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup final at MetLife Stadium on July 13, 2025. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters via Imagn Images)
Trump appeared to echo the sentiments expressed by Malik Nabers, who also criticized the staging but deleted his post about X.
“Why didn’t the New York Football Giants (NFL) throw this Field Goal???” » the president wrote on Truth Social on Monday. “Who would do something like that? It was CRAZY! I watched the end of the game and thought, when they went for the touchdown instead of the 3, ‘That’s weird!!!'”
Nabers expressed his frustration moments after the match. The second-year receiver has been out of action since September with a torn ACL.
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New York Giants interim head coach Mike Kafka watches the third quarter against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on November 23, 2025. (Lon Horwedel/Imagn Images)
“Sometimes I think they make (us) lose on purpose!” he wrote on
Giants interim head coach Mike Kafka defended the play in the postgame press conference.
“We wanted to be aggressive,” he said. “I just thought it was a good time to take points in this situation and go up two scores. I had a good flow, I wanted to go up two scores.”
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The Giants fell to 2-10 that year and were eliminated from the playoffs.
