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Johnny2X2X

(24,434 posts)
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 02:39 PM Jan 2021

Brady and Trump are friends

Brady and Donald are friends and have golfed together. Trump asked him to speak at his convention last Summer, Tom said no because he didn't want

He didn't want to publicly support Trump politically, not because of all the fascism, racism, and Xenophobia, but because he was worried what his teammates might think.

Brady explained how he felt uncomfortable juggling his friendship with Trump and the sudden political implications involved with that.

“Yeah,” Brady said. “Well, he wanted me to speak at that convention too, and I wasn’t going to do anything political.”

Brady said he met Trump in 2001 and the friendship evolved as Brady’s football career took off.

“He would call me after games, ‘I watched your game Tom, let’s play golf together,’ ” Brady told Stern. “So 2003, 2004, that’s kind of the way it was. He would come up to our games and stand on the sideline and cheer for the Patriots. He had a way of connecting with people, and still does. But the whole political aspect came, and I got brought into a lot of those things because it was so polarizing around the election time. It was uncomfortable to me. You can’t undo things — not that I would undo a friendship — but the political support is totally different than the support of a friend.”

“I didn’t want to support, I didn’t want to get into all the political ... there’s zero win in anything in regards to that. It’s politics,” Brady told Stern. “The whole political realm right now ... I’m a person, from my standpoint, to embrace leadership. I got brought together in a locker room where I was trying to get along with everybody. In an outward sense, when you start talking about politics is about how you do you not bring people together, which is the opposite of what politics should have always been in our country."

Trump was just as awful of a person in 2001 as he is now. These "friends" of his have a duty to their country to denounce hate and they take the coward's way out.

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