Amon-Ra St. Brown pointing at Donald Trump and doing his dance after a TD and then getting punched by a Commanders player moments later is objectively hilarious pic.twitter.com/O7weh1prnR
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) November 9, 2025
And as is custom with anything referencing Trump, the President's detractors were irrationally angry over this incident, despite it being all in good fun. Regardless, St. Brown felt the need to apologize.
"First of all, if I offended anyone, I do apologize. I did not mean to offend anyone. It was just, we're having fun," St. Brown said on the "St. Brown Podcast" that he co-hosts with his brother Equanimeous St. Brown. "If any president was at that game and had a dance I would have done it. It had nothing to do with who the president was."
While I believe that St. Brown should have ignored the noise and just let it die down, I'm not going to be overly critical of his bending the proverbial knee. He just wants to help his Lions team win a Super Bowl, and anything that has the potential to distract from that goal is something he'd just rather nip in the bud.
Now, compare that to the response of ESPN podcaster Pat McAfee, who received blowback for having Trump appear on his Veterans Day broadcast.
“I’ve got a lot of people saying mean stuff to me,” McAfee said. “Got a lot of people that don’t know what a football looks like telling me they’re never watching my show again. And I would like to let you know: good! F*ck you. Let’s move on.”
Again, my preference would be to not give these kooks the time of day because it wouldn't be more than a few days before they'd be triggered by something else.
At the end of the day, St. Brown and McAfee are so bogged down with their very demanding, high-profile careers that it wouldn't shock me if they both tune out all that political nonsense. And because they aren't privy to the day-to-day lunacy that is American politics, it makes sense why each was so taken aback by visceral reactions from the public.
I think we just got a sense of what happens when "normies" actually get exposed to this crap.
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