Trump reflects on sports' impact on life, says you have to keep fighting no matter the circumstance

President Donald Trump called sports a microcosm of life. 

Trump, 79, spoke astir the highs and lows of beingness that tin beryllium seen passim sports, and besides successful life, during a caller quality connected ESPN’s "The Pat McAfee Show."

"Sports to me, it’s similar a microcosm of life, it truly is," Trump said

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(Left) A wide presumption of fireworks arsenic the American emblem is unfurled connected the tract earlier an NFL crippled betwixt the Washington Commanders and the Seattle Seahawks astatine Northwest Stadium successful Landover, Maryland, connected Nov. 2, 2025. (Right) President Donald Trump speaks during an lawsuit astir cause prices successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, District of Columbia, connected Nov. 6, 2025. (Scott Taetsch/Getty Images;Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

Trump noted however shot games, successful the span of a mates of hours, tin amusement the scope of emotions that instrumentality spot implicit a abbreviated clip frame. 

"You spot the winning and the losing and the comebacks and the routs, you spot everything, and you spot it quickly. You don’t spot it implicit a lifetime, you spot it implicit 2 hours, and you ticker football, you ticker games that are won and each of a abrupt they are warring for survival, and they suffer the crippled oregon hardly triumph the game," Trump said. 

Trump said beingness is the aforesaid way, that nary substance the circumstances, you person to support warring nary substance what.  

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President Donald Trump, right, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth be an NFL shot crippled betwixt the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions astatine Northwest Stadium successful Landover, Md., Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025.  (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)

"Life is precise overmuch similar that. You person to combat and conscionable support warring nary substance what the circumstance, and you got to win. And ultimately, you got to win," Trump said. 

Trump noted however sports are each astir "what person you person done for maine lately?" and compared that to beingness arsenic well. 

"It’s astir winning, and you got to support winning due to the fact that if you triumph but you don’t triumph the past couple, it's what person you done for maine lately," Trump said.

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President Donald Trump, left, participates successful an interrogation arsenic helium attends an NFL shot crippled betwixt the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions astatine Northwest Stadium successful Landover, Maryland connected Nov. 9, 2025. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)

Trump appeared successful FOX’s broadcast booth alongside legendary play-by-play announcer Kenny Albert and expert Jonathan Vilma during the Washington Commanders’ nonaccomplishment to the Detroit Lions connected Sunday. He was astatine Northwest Stadium for the NFL’s "Salute to Service" festivities and work the names of enlistees into the U.S. military. 

In his quality successful the booth, Trump reiterated his emotion for sports and stated however "the good, the atrocious and the ugly" successful sports are "lifelike."

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report. 

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