Last week, United States President Donald Trump went golfing with legendary college football coaches Urban Meyer and Nick Saban. And while Trump is a football fan, it sounds like the coaches were more interested in politics than he was in football.
During a recent interview with college football personality Josh Pate, Donald Trump revealed that Saban and Meyer mostly wanted to discuss politcs with Trump rather than football.
“They want talk to me about politics, really more so than football,” Trump told Pate last week during a visit to northwest Georgia. “They like politics. They’re all obviously very highly competitive people, but I would say for the most part, we’re talking politics. They want to know what’s happening with Iran, what’s happening … why did you do that with Venezuela?
“It was pretty good. You know, that was very, very successful, to put it mildly. But they always want to seem to (talk politics), because I play with a lot of athletes, a lot of coaches,” Trump continued. “I play golf. I’m a good golfer, and some of them are good. Some of them aren’t very good, but doesn’t matter. One thing (when) you golf, it doesn’t really matter. That’s why they have handicaps. But they always want to talk about politics.”
Meyer, however, claimed that all of the conversations were “bipartisan,” even though they included Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who recently ran for president as a Republican.
“It was an awesome day. Awesome. Sense of humor and also real serious conversation,” Meyer said recently on The Triple Option. “It’s interesting to get Coach Saban’s take, my take, who has been in it for so long. And then Governor DeSantis, I think he told me he was the first governor that signed NIL, allowing that to happen, so he’s got his hands on a lot of stuff.
“This conversation is all bipartisan. It happens that one is a Republican president, one’s a very conservative governor of our state. Coach Saban and I were there as guests, and it was all about our thoughts on how to make this thing better.”
Clearly, everyone involved enjoyed the conversations.