Trump excited to attend NCAA Wrestling Championships: 'We're going to the big fight'

President Donald Trump connected Friday spoke astir going to the NCAA Wrestling Championships connected Saturday. 

Trump told reporters extracurricular the White House that helium is headed to Philadelphia to be the last rounds of the tournament, arsenic Penn State looks to adjacent retired the title with a important pb of 90.5 implicit second-place Nebraska astatine 62.5 and third-place Oklahoma astatine 61.0. 

"We're going to the large fight. The crushed I'm going is successful Philadelphia. They person the NCAA, world, wrestling for college. And I've ever supported the wrestlers," Trump said. "So I privation to enactment them. These are the large assemblage wrestlers from the assorted schools. I deliberation Penn State is leading, and Nebraska is successful 2nd spot close now. And a batch of bully things."

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The Penn State Nittany Lions airs aft winning the NCAA Wrestling Title astatine the T-Mobile Center successful Kansas City, Missouri, connected March 23, 2024. (Reese Strickland-USA TODAY Sports)

OutKick co-founder Clay Travis broke the quality that Trump would be the lawsuit connected Tuesday erstwhile helium said successful an X station that helium would beryllium traveling "with" the president connected "Air Force One" to the championships.

The White House confirmed Friday that Trump would be the event.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is besides reportedly joining Trump successful Philadelphia, a root acquainted with his plans told Fox News Digital.

Jordan himself was a noted wrestling champion during his clip successful precocious schoolhouse and astatine the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wherever helium won the NCAA Division I men's wrestling rubric twice. He was aboriginal an adjunct manager astatine Ohio State University's wrestling programme from 1987 to 1995.

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President Donald Trump, flanked by girl Ivanka Trump, speaks earlier signing the National Security Presidential Memorandum to Launch the "Women's Global Development and Prosperity" Initiative successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Feb. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., volition besides beryllium tagging along. McCormick antecedently confirmed that Trump would beryllium successful attendance astatine the lawsuit successful the senator's location authorities of Pennsylvania.

"I’m thrilled to beryllium successful Philadelphia this play with [Trump] for the [NCAA Wrestling] Championship," McCormick wrote connected X. "I grew up wrestling successful tiny towns crossed PA and astatine West Point. It taught maine grit, resilience, and hard work."

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President Donald Trump walks connected the South Lawn of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Nov. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The wrestling championships are making their instrumentality to Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center for the archetypal clip since 2011, erstwhile Penn State took vantage of being successful their location authorities and won it all. That kicked disconnected a ascendant tally by the Nittany Lions that is inactive going — they've won 8 of the past 11 of the past 13 titles, including each of the past three.

With a triumph connected Saturday, it would beryllium their 3rd four-peat successful that stretch.

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report. 

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