Washington, D.C. – Saturday night, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) joined President Trump in Philadelphia, PA at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships alongside his wife Christie, and sons Jim, Jayce, and Andrew. President Trump is the first President of the United States to attend the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. The Mullin family also proudly cheered on two Oklahoma State wrestlers to victory: Wyatt Hendrickson and Dean Hamiti Jr.
“President Trump walked in there, they were chanting USA because every single day they know that he’s up there fighting for him.”
Sen. Mullin’s full recap on Fox & Friends Sunday can be found here.
On President Trump attending the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships:
“It was a huge moment. Just the fact that President Trump took the time to walk into that arena and just share the love of the sport that he truly cares about. Remember Rachel, in 2023 he was in Tulsa with me as well. My boys now, in 2023 they were wrestling in high school, today they wrestle at Oklahoma State and OU. I got three boys all wrestling in college. And it’s just something that we truly love the sport, and President Trump seems to share our same passion for it.”
On the crowd’s reaction to President Trump:
“When the sound of, they say the sound of God, came on the place went absolutely nuts. President Trump came walking in, they’re chanting, USA, USA, USA. You can tell the wrestlers that had already wrestled… were standing up cheering. The President walked over to me, and he says, ‘They absolutely love me here, don’t they?’ I said, ‘Sir, they certainly do.’ And he says, ‘Why do you think that?’ And I said, ‘Sir, every male in this building, and I’d say a lot of females in this building, has been punched in the face. We’re wrestling fans. We do this.’ And I said, ‘They respect a fighter, and they respect you.’
On the event attendees respecting the fighter that President Trump is:
“[President Trump] shows every single day that he’s for the people, and from the people. What I mean by that is, tell me if Joe Biden could walk in that room and get a chant like that? They would have been chanting, let’s go Brandon. But when President Trump walked in there, they were chanting USA because every single day they know that he’s up there fighting for him. And the iconic part was… when the assassin’s bullet, missed him, and yet he stood up and put his hand in the air and said, fight, fight, fight. That resonated through everybody. And it resonated through the patriotism through our country too. And then you walk into a wrestling arena like that, where people just love America, they respect a fighter. That’s right at President Trump’s base, and he couldn’t have been more at home in that crowd than, let’s say, myself, or any other wrestler that was participating there.”
On Oklahoma State wrestler Wyatt Hendrickson:
“One thing I want to add too is Wyatt Hendrickson is the heavyweight that you guys are talking about that pulled maybe the largest upset of the NCAA, he’s also a graduate from the Air Force Academy. And when President Trump met him three years ago and Wyatt walked up to him, and I was with him, and said, ‘Can I get a waiver to fly jets?’ And the President looked at him and said, ‘Sir, I don’t think they make cockpits that big.’ I mean, just a huge individual. And they actually developed a friendship. And so, President Trump was supposed to leave two matches before Wyatt wrestled, and he looked at me, he says, I can’t leave, I’ve got to watch my big guy. That’s what he called him he said, ‘I got to watch my big guy.’”
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