{"id":234863,"date":"2025-07-25T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/234863\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:34:13","slug":"john-harbaugh-has-fiery-response-to-ravens-reporters-white-house-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/234863\/","title":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh has fiery response to Ravens reporter&#8217;s White House question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravens coach John Harbaugh called out a reporter for how they framed a question about his recent visit to the White House with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>During his media availability at Ravens training camp on Wednesday, Harbaugh defended his visit to the White House, which took place earlier this month and included his family, after the reporter brought up Trump\u2019s \u201cdenigrating\u201d comments in 2019 about the city of Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would you frame the question\u00a0\u2014 I would\u2019ve framed that question like, \u2018You got a chance to go visit with the president, man. What was that experience like?\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wCZclRluBOg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harbaugh said<\/a>, with a slight chuckle afterward. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was amazing. It was awesome. And I promise you, I root for our president. I want our president to be successful just like I want my quarterback to be successful, and I want my team to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Baltimore Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh delivered a masterful response to a nasty reporter when asked why he met with Trump:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you frame that question [like that]? \u2026 It was amazing\u2014it was awesome. And I promise you, I root for our President. I want our President to be\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h7QXXNIZk0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/h7QXXNIZk0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_johnnymaga\/status\/1948184491295383924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Trump bashed the city of Baltimore \u2014 calling it a \u201ccorrupt, rodent-infested mess,\u201d where residents are \u201cliving in hell\u201d \u2014 amid a series of verbal attacks against Baltimore Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democratic critic of his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh went on to explain how he, along with his brother, Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh, and their families, were honored to receive an invitation to visit the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh speaks to media after practice at the team\u2019s NFL football training camp, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Owings Mills, Md.   AP<\/p>\n<p>United States President Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office at the White House.   Ron Sachs\/CNP \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Barack Obama (L) holds up a jersey given to him by head coach John Harbaugh (R) after welcoming members of the National Football League Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens during a South Lawn ceremony on June 5, 2013 in Washington, DC.   Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing experience. It\u2019s not often you get invited and get a chance to do something like that as a family,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cWe were there, my daughter was there, Jim\u2019s daughters were there. My mom and dad were there. My mom and President Trump \u2014 just seeing how he treated her was really meaningful. That\u2019s the fourth president [I\u2019ve met]. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim has met seven presidents, so he\u2019s got the lead on me\u2026 I had the chance to meet President Obama twice. Incredible experience. Had a chance to meet President Biden, when he was vice president, in Iraq. I spent a lot of time with him in Iraq, which was amazing\u2026 So those are moments that I definitely cherish and it means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens coach John Harbaugh called out a reporter for how they framed a question about his recent visit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117,78,7,2909,6,9,1897],"class_list":{"0":"post-234863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-john-harbaugh","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}