Lions’ Amon-Ra St Brown addresses Trump dance at Commanders sport

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Detroit Lions star Amon-Ra St. Brown apologized to anybody who was "offended" by his tribute to President Donald Trump throughout his group's victory over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.

St. Brown carried out Trump's signature dance after scoring a landing, after which pointed to the president, who was in attendance at Northwest Stadium.

The broad receiver addressed the incident and public response throughout an episode of his podcast on Wednesday.

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Detroit Lions broad receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown celebrates after scoring towards the Washington Commanders on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, in Landover, Maryland. (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Picture)

"If I offended anybody, I do apologize. I didn't imply to offend anybody. It was simply, we're having enjoyable," he stated. "If any president was at that sport, if they'd a dance, I might have achieved it. It had nothing to do with who the president was."

Trump turned the primary sitting U.S. president to attend a daily season NFL sport since Jimmy Carter in 1978.

For St. Brown, it was an important day.

"Even after the sport, somebody tells me 'That is the primary sport {that a} president has been to in over 40 years,' first common season sport, which is loopy," St. Brown stated. "We have been simply having enjoyable doing the dance, it was nothing extra, nothing much less."

Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jourdan Lewis appeared to name out St. Brown for the dance in a since-deleted social media put up.

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Detroit Lions broad receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown celebrates a landing towards the Washington Commanders at Northwest Stadium on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Junfu Han/USA Right now Community through Imagn Pictures)

"The reality involves mild," he wrote on Monday evening earlier than including individually, "You do this in one of many blackest cities in America?"

Lewis, who's from Detroit and performed school at Michigan, deleted the latter put up.

St. Brown's Lions went on to beat Washington 44-22, as he completed with 5 catches for 58 yards and the landing.

Trump has attended loads of sporting occasions during the last 13 months. Along with the Pittsburgh Steelers sport final season and the Tremendous Bowl, he’s been at UFC fights , the Daytona 500, U.S. Open and Ryder Cup.

Some Commanders fans at Sunday's sport have been the topic of controversy after they booed Trump as he learn the names of these enlisting within the U.S. army over the group's public tackle system. The brand new members of the army have been at Northwest Stadium as a part of the NFL’s "Salute to Service" festivities forward of Veterans Day.

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The boos got here at a time when the view of Trump within the Washington, D.C., space was impacted by the latest authorities shutdown. Days earlier than the sport, ESPN reported that Trump needs the Commanders' new $3.7 billion stadium challenge to be named after him.

The White Home didn't verify the report, however in a earlier assertion, press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, "That will absolutely be a ravishing identify, because it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the brand new stadium potential."

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Jackson Thompson is a sports activities author for Fox Information Digital. He beforehand labored for ESPN and Enterprise Insider. Jackson has lined the Tremendous Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.