Army in their annual football game<\/a>. He used the occasion to give shoutouts to guests who graduated from the Navy, including his former White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson, who is now a congressman from Texas.<\/p>\n![\"President](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ac9d7e9b4cc46008c09da5d5f2020466.jpeg\"\/)
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President Trump jokes he\u2019s in better shape than the US Navy football team. REUTERS<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said I\u2019m the healthiest human being he\u2019s ever seen,\u201d Trump, 79, noted and then asked him: \u201cRonny \u2014 am I healthier than these guys back here?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, sir,\u201d Jackson shouted.<\/p>\n
\u201cSee, this is why I like him,\u201d Trump responded.<\/p>\n
Trump also noted Jackson said of him, \u201cIf he didn\u2019t eat junk food, he\u2019d live to 200 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI love this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president was in a jovial mood as he welcomed the college athletes to the White House. He joked with the players, engaged in some trash talk and invited them to the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
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President Trump welcomed Navy midshipmen to the White House to present them with the Commander in Chief Trophy after they beat the Army team. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The players gave as good as they got.<\/p>\n
When the captains of the Navy team presented the president with a helmet, Trump observed, \u201cThis is very heavy,\u201d noting one needs a \u201cstrong neck.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quarterback Blake Horvath, the Navy co-captain, didn\u2019t miss a beat: \u201cYou\u2019re the healthiest guy here, so you got the neck to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump chuckled at the comeback.<\/p>\n
The president also expressed his admiration for co-captain Landon Robinson, who clocks in at 6 feet tall and 287 pounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the guy I want to meet,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
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President Trump speaks to the US Navy football team at the White House. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Shaking his hand, Trump observed, \u201cHis arms are like steel. I just hurt my hand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think I could take him in a fight,\u201d Trump asked one of the Navy players.<\/p>\n
The midshipman nodded in agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump on Friday argued he\u2019s healthier than the Navy championship football team and got his former White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[10159,32966,7,20845,75515,2285,4712,653,114301,51,1897],"class_list":["post-824698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-army","tag-blake-horvath","tag-football","tag-football-game","tag-landon-robinson","tag-navy","tag-navy-midshipmen","tag-president-trump","tag-ronny-jackson","tag-texas","tag-white-house"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116265758746480814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824698","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=824698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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