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Trump’s vice produces heavy faux pas with football trophy
04/15/2025, 6:29 a.m.
JD Vance undertakes a faux pas when you honor a football team: the vice president of Donald Trump slides the trophy out of his hands. The US press is happy about a “fumble”.
It was a solemn ceremony in the Garden of the White House for the football team of Ohio State University, and it ended with a mistake by Vice President JD Vance. When, after a speech by President Donald Trump, when he wanted to triumphant the trophy for the victory of the National College Football Championship in 2024 together with Running Back Treveyon Henderson, she fell apart.
Vance, an Ohio-State graduate, did not know that the golden tip of the trophy can be loosened by its black base. When he tried to raise the trophy while the team was on stage behind him, the actual trophy loosened and the base fell on the floor.
After some confusion, Vance then kept the trophy shortened around the base to the sounds of the Queens classic “We are the champions”. “I didn’t want anyone to get the trophy after Ohio State, so I decided to break her,” Vance later wrote on X. Ohio, won the title in January with a 34:23 win over Notre lady.
Vance – who comes from Middletown, Ohio, used part of his speech to mention the greatest rival of the “Buckeyes” by teasing a listener with a cap of Michigan University. “I don’t know who has left the guy with the Michigan cap here in the corner,” said Vance. “But I will tell the Secret Service that they have a dangerous weapon, sir.”
The US online media were delighted with the “Fumble” of the Vice President. The English “Guardian” mocked, “Vance, the man who entrusted America in emergencies in emergencies, may not be the safest couple of hands if you keep the events of Monday in mind”.
The fact that US presidents receive successful sports teams in the White House is a good tradition – with which, however, was broken several times in Trump’s first term. For example, NBA champion Golden State Warriors around superstar Stephen Curry and the US soccer world champions rejected the president’s invitation in protest.
