{"id":267713,"date":"2025-08-07T00:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/267713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:49:09","slug":"tua-tagovailoa-laughs-off-donald-trump-botching-his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/267713\/","title":{"rendered":"Tua Tagovailoa laughs off Donald Trump botching his name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tua Tagovailoa confirmed his participation in the Trump administration\u2019s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition on Wednesday after practice, shaking off the president\u2019s mispronunciation of his name and delivering quite an impression of Donald Trump to assembled Miami media.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins quarterback, <a href=\"https:\/\/thecomeback.com\/nfl\/saquon-barkley-declines-invitation-donald-trump-council-fans-react.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unlike Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley<\/a>, did accept the administration\u2019s invitation to join the council. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/07\/presidents-council-on-sports-fitness-and-nutrition-and-the-reesetablishment-of-the-presidential-fitness-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trump created the council as part of the United States\u2019 250th anniversary celebration next year<\/a>, tasking it with increasing youth participation in sports and promoting active lifestyles among children.<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa is one of 30 members of the council, which will rotate every two years. When Trump announced Tagovailoa\u2019s participation, he struggled mightily with the Hawaiian quarterback\u2019s last name.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Tagovailoa laughed off the mispronunciation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he had the worst. I\u2019ve heard a couple worse in Alabama,\u201d Tagovailoa said. \u201cI don\u2019t take that to heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, Tagovailoa transitioned seamlessly into an impression of Trump talking about him at the council ceremony.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa on being appointed by President Donald Trump to his Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>And Tua does a Trump impersonation \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pDGKNZDmEG\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pDGKNZDmEG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Furones (@DavidFurones_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidFurones_\/status\/1953112524636762254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whereas during the first Trump administration, most athletes and celebrities distanced themselves from Trump, this term has been quite different. Many stars still prefer to stay away from political figures. But when they do engage with Trump, it is not met with as much blowback.<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa addressed his participation in the council in stride and even turned it into a bit of humor at his usual press conference. Despite the polarizing nature of Trump\u2019s rhetoric, the Dolphins star and the team\u2019s fan base appear to be comfortable with the quarterback\u2019s involvement with the administration.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tua Tagovailoa confirmed his participation in the Trump administration\u2019s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition on Wednesday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,78,7,216,251,2087,6,3452],"class_list":{"0":"post-267713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-dolphins","13":"tag-miamidolphins","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-tua-tagovailoa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114984738507603397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267713","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=267713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}