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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 victory over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
St. Brown performed Trump’s iconic dance after scoring a touchdown and then pointed at the president, who was in attendance at Northwest Stadium.
Brown addressed the incident and the public response during an episode of his podcast Wednesday.
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Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown celebrates after scoring during 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. It was just for fun,” he said. “If a president had gone to that game, if he had a dance, I would have done it. It had nothing to do with who the president was.”
Trump became the first sitting U.S. 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, someone says to me, ‘This is the first game a president has been to in over 40 years,’ the first regular season game, which is crazy,” St. Brown said. “We were just having fun dancing, it was nothing more, nothing less.”
Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jourdan Lewis appeared to call out St. Brown for doing the dance 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 during the first half at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, Sunday, November 9, 2025. (Junfu Han/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
“The truth is coming out,” he wrote Monday evening before adding separately: “Are you doing this in one of the blackest cities in America?”
Lewis, who is from Detroit and played in college at Michigan, deleted this last post.
The St. Brown Lions defeated Washington 44-22, finishing with five catches for 58 yards and a touchdown.
Trump has attended numerous sporting events over the past 13 months. In addition to last season’s Pittsburgh Steelers game and the Super Bowl, he has competed in UFC fights, the Daytona 500, the US Open and the Ryder Cup.
Some Commanders fans at Sunday’s game became the subject of controversy after booing Trump as he read the names of those enlisting in the U.S. military over the team’s public address system. The newest 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 boos came at a time when Trump’s prospects in the Washington, D.C., area were being hurt by the recent government shutdown. Days before the game, ESPN reported that Trump wanted the Commanders’ new $3.7 billion stadium project to be named after him.
The White House has not confirmed this information, but in a previous statement, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “It would surely be a great name, because it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible.”
