On Friday, President Donald Trump spoke of going to the NCAA wrestling championships on Saturday.
Trump told journalists outside the White House that he was going to Philadelphia to attend the last laps of the tournament, while Penn State seeks to close the championship with a substantial advance of 90.5 in second place in Nebraska at 62.5 and third place in Oklahoma at 61.0.
“We are going to the big fight. The reason for which I go is Philadelphia. They have the NCAA, the world, the fight for the university. And I have always supported the wrestlers,” said Trump. “So I want to support them. These are the major university wrestlers of different schools. I think Penn State is in mind, and Nebraska is in second place right now. And many good things.”
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The Penn Stateny Lions pose after winning the NCAA wrestling title at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, March 23, 2024. (Reese Strickland-USA TODAY SPORTS)
The co-founder of Outkick, Clay Travis, announced that Trump would attend the event on Tuesday when he declared in a post he would travel “With” the president On “Air Force One” at the championships.
The White House confirmed on Friday that Trump would attend the event.
The chairman of the Chamber’s Judicial Committee Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, would also have joined Trump in Philadelphia, a source familiar with his plans at PK Press Club Digital.
Jordan himself was a renowned wrestling champion during his stay at the Lycée and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he won the male wrestling title of the NCAA division I twice. He was then assistant coach to the Ohio State University wrestling program from 1987 to 1995.
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President Donald Trump, flanked by his daughter Ivanka Trump, speaks before signing the presidential national security memorandum to launch the “Women’s Global Development and Prosperity” initiative in the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2019. (AP photo / Andrew Harnik)
Senator Dave McCormick, R-P-PA. , Ra also mark it. McCormick previously confirmed that Trump would be present at the event at the senator’s home State of Pennsylvania.
“I am delighted to be in Philadelphia this weekend with [Trump] For [NCAA Wrestling] Championship, “McCormick wrote on X.” I grew up in fighting in the small towns of the AP and in West Point. It taught me grain, resilience and hard work. “”
President Donald Trump walks on the southern lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, November 29, 2020. (AP photo / Patrick Semansky)
The wrestling championships return to the Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center for the first time since 2011, when Penn State took advantage of being in their country of origin and won everything. This launched a dominant race by the Nittany Lions which is still underway – they have won eight of the last 11 of the last 13 titles, each of the last three.
With a victory on Saturday, it would be their third four peat in this section.
