Lions’ Amon-Ra St Brown addresses Trump dance at Commanders game
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Detroit Lions star Amon-Ra St. Brown apologized to anyone who was “offended” by his praise of President Donald Trump during his team’s victory over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
St. After scoring, Brown performed Trump’s signature dance and then gestured to the president in attendance at Northwest Stadium.
The wide receiver addressed the incident and the public reaction during an episode of his podcast on Wednesday.
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Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown celebrates after scoring against the Washington Commanders on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, in Landover, Maryland. (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Photo)
“I’m sorry if I offended anyone. I didn’t mean to offend anyone. We were just having fun,” he said. “If there had been any president at that game, if they had danced, I would have done it. It had nothing to do with who the president was.”
Trump became the first US president to attend a regular season NFL game since Jimmy Carter in 1978.
St. For Brown, this was a special occasion.
St. “Even after the game, someone says to me, ‘This is the first game, the first regular season game, that a president has attended in over 40 years,’ and it’s crazy,” Brown said. he said. “We were just having fun dancing, nothing more, nothing less.”
Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jourdan Lewis said in a since-deleted social media post that St. He appeared to call out Brown for dancing.
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Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown celebrates a goal against the Washington Commanders on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, at Northwest Stadium. (Junfu Han/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
“The truth is coming to light,” he wrote Monday night, adding: “Are you doing this in one of the darkest cities in America?”
Who is Lewis? from Detroit and played collegiately at Michigan, deleted second post.
St. Brown’s Lions defeated Washington 44-22 with five catches for 58 yards and a touchdown.
Trump has attended many sporting events over the past 13 months. In addition to last season’s Pittsburgh Steelers game and the Super Bowl, he also appeared in UFC fights, the Daytona 500, the US Open and the Ryder Cup.
Sunday’s game became the subject of controversy after some Commanders fans booed Trump as he read the names of those enlisting in the U.S. military over the team’s public address system. The new members of the military were at Northwest Stadium as part of the NFL’s “Salute to Service” festivities ahead of Veterans Day.
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The boos came at a time when Trump’s opinion in the Washington, D.C. area has been affected by the recent government shutdown. Days before the game, ESPN reported that Trump wanted the Commanders’ new $3.7 billion stadium project to be named after him.
The White House did not confirm the report, but press secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier, “That would certainly be a nice name, because it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible.”
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