Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s relationship with President Donald Trump has occasionally come up for discussion over the last couple of years and it happened again last week when Trump said that he got a call from Brady ahead of Inauguration Day.
Brady didn’t want to answer questions about any phone call during a press conference last Friday, but he had a bit more to say about it on Monday morning. Brady said he doesn’t understand why people are interested, but said he and Trump have called each other in the past. As he’s said in the past, he and the President have a friendship going back nearly two decades and that he has a lot of friends he calls on the phone.
He also pointed out that he doesn’t necessarily agree with or “denounce anything” that those people say or do.
“I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do. You have a lot of friends in your life,” Brady said on Kirk & Callahan on WEEI. “I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.”
If Brady and the Patriots beat the Falcons in Houston, he’ll likely have an opportunity to visit his friend at the White House although Brady passed on the team’s last post-championship trip to see President Obama.