ESPN star makes Trump interview claim in interview
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ESPN star Paul Finebaum said that the network concluded a potential interview with President Donald Trump in 2019 before the network finally started sitting with him.
Finebaum spoke to Clay Travis, the founder of Outkick, and was opened on various issues, including the attempt to interview Trump for ESPN show. Trump will appear in the falling LSU and Alabama match, and Finabaum said he wanted to go above and beyond.
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ESPN announcer Paul Finebaum before the 2024 SEC Championship match at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 7, 2024. (Brett Davis/Imagn Images)
“Our producer said we had to do something big,” Finibaum remembered. “College Gameday ‘would be there. Obviously, our show is not’ College Gameday ‘. I said, yes!
“Two days a week in New York ‘get up’ and ‘first take’ I was going. I said I would be in New York on Wednesday. He said, ‘I think we can do it on Thursday morning at the White House. Can you go there?’ ‘Yes I can go there’ I said, ‘Let me run down.’ He said, ‘It looks good.
“I called my boss and killed.”
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President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, on Saturday, November 9, 2019, etc. He was at home at the Bryant-Denny Stadium to watch the LSU match. (Personnel Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.)
Finebaum said that the interview with Travis was mixed in the last second. He said he was told that they were “not allowed to confuse politics with sports.”
College football analyst for a long time, College basketball analyst Andy Katz’ın NCAA Basketball tournament with President Barack Obama’la said that he was caught on duty.
“I think the answer is quite clear that Andy Katz went to the White House every year. This was a turning point.” He said. “This was not about politics. This was just the idea of going to the White House to interview the United States President. It was about politics. It was about a football match. The biggest game of the year in college football.
“I didn’t know exactly where the ‘killing button’ came from, but it didn’t.”
President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House in Washington, Washington, on Monday, September 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Full conversation between Finebaum and Travis It will be published on Tuesday morning.
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