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President Donald Trump asked Tom Brady to speak at the 2016 Republican National Convention, according to an account given by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback to Howard Stern on Wednesday.
"He wanted me to speak at that convention, too," Brady said, per NJ Advance Media's Darryl Slater. "... I wasn't going to do anything political. He always had a way of connecting with people and still does. Then the whole political aspect came.
"I think I got brought into a lot of those things because it was so polarizing around the election time.