President Donald Trump has had a long, curious relationship with professional football. Perhaps nowhere else has that been as fully on display than in Trump’s 15 years of public admiration for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
According to Brady, he met the future president at a beauty pageant in 2002 after his winning his first Super Bowl and developed a golf-centric friendship. That friendship became a lot more awkward — both for Brady and for some fans — as Trump increasingly became more involved in politics.