President Donald Trump was obtained with thunderous applause when proven on the Jumbotron at Onerous Rock Stadium in Miami earlier than Monday evening’s Faculty Soccer Playoff (CFP) nationwide championship recreation between the Miami Hurricanes and Indiana Hoosiers.
Trump stood and waved because the cameras targeted on him.
Seated close to Trump in his suite had been the president’s daughter, Ivanka, and three of his grandchildren. Notably, the president’s granddaughter, Kai, who’s an incoming golfer on the College of Miami, was additionally in attendance.
“Melania and I congratulate the Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes on making it to the Faculty Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship,” the president mentioned in a White Home assertion.
Trump added, “God bless the gifted gamers and devoted coaches, the households who love and help them, and the devoted followers who cheer them on. Could the perfect staff win!”
The president wasn’t the one high-visibility member of the federal authorities available for the sport. Miami native and Hurricanes fan Secretary of State Marco Rubio was additionally in attendance.
President Trump has grow to be a fixture at championship sporting occasions throughout each of his phrases. Whereas the president will be seen incessantly at UFC occasions, he additionally attended final yr’s Tremendous Bowl and flipped the coin at this yr’s Military-Navy recreation.
The president can also be exerting his affect over school sports activities by planning an government order to stop postseason soccer from overlapping with the annual Military-Navy recreation.
