{"id":255500,"date":"2025-08-02T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255500\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:45:11","slug":"ex-giants-star-declares-loyalty-to-trump-but-isnt-sure-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255500\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Giants Star Declares Loyalty to Trump but Isn\u2019t Sure Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ex-NFL star Lawrence Taylor is \u201chere to serve\u201d President Donald Trump\u2014just nobody ask him why. The former New York Giants linebacker took the mic at the Oval Office on Thursday to declare his undying loyalty to Trump as the president announced that he would reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test. \u201cI don\u2019t know why. I don\u2019t know what we\u2019re supposed to be doing, but I\u2019m here to serve, and I\u2019m here to serve you,\u201d he <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1951019818368262363&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1951019818368262363\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1951019818368262363\">stated<\/a>, earning him a pat on the back from Trump. Taylor, who is a registered sex offender, added that he was \u201cproud to be on this team\u201d and was going to \u201cdo the best for as long as I can.\u201d Taylor was at the Oval Office ceremony alongside Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker and golfer Bryson DeChambeau. The NFL Hall of Famer also <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.nj.com\/giants\/2024\/05\/giants-legend-shows-up-next-to-trump-at-rally-no-longer-a-democratic-voter.html&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/giants\/2024\/05\/giants-legend-shows-up-next-to-trump-at-rally-no-longer-a-democratic-voter.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/giants\/2024\/05\/giants-legend-shows-up-next-to-trump-at-rally-no-longer-a-democratic-voter.html\">appeared<\/a> at a campaign rally for Trump in 2024 to announce that he was renouncing the Democratic Party. \u201cI just wanted to say I grew up a Democrat and I\u2019ve always been a Democrat until I met this man right here,\u201d Taylor said at the time.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lawrence Taylor to Trump: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why. I don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re supposed to be doing, but I&#8217;m here to serve, and I&#8217;m here to serve you.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vk8RK1nfjV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Vk8RK1nfjV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1951019818368262363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-NFL star Lawrence Taylor is \u201chere to serve\u201d President Donald Trump\u2014just nobody ask him why. The former New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7063,7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,50556],"class_list":{"0":"post-255500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-donald-j-trump","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-oval-office"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114958298651969323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255500","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=255500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}