Vice President JD Vance ended the Ohio State soccer crew’s go to to the White Home on Monday by fumbling the crew’s nationwide championship trophy.
After laudatory speeches by President Donald Trump, Buckeye coach Ryan Day and Vance on the South Garden, the vp — an Ohio State graduate — tried to hoist the trophy.
He did not rely on the trophy’s golden prime being designed to separate from its black base. After some struggling, the vp misplaced his grip on the 2 items. OSU working again TreVeyon Henderson, standing behind Vance, grabbed the football-shaped prime of the trophy. However the base fell to the bottom, forcing Vance to know round because it rolled a brief distance.
A few of the gamers across the vp winced. America Marine Corps Band, which performs at presidential occasions, needed to compete with audible gasps from the gamers and crowd because it performed “We Are the Champions.”
Henderson and Day helped Vance reassemble the trophy, and the vp later held simply the highest, cradling it in his arms whereas the gamers round him chuckled.
As photos and movies of Vance’s fumble rocketed throughout the web, the vp tried to elucidate away the gaffe with self-deprecation: “I did not need anybody after Ohio State to get the trophy so I made a decision to interrupt it,” he wrote on X.
Trump credited the Ohio State crew with profitable the 2024 school soccer championship regardless of “adversity,” together with the crew’s upset loss to unranked Michigan 13-10 at dwelling in November.
Trump stated he hesitated to say OSU’s fourth consecutive defeat to “the crew up north — we cannot discuss it.”
Earlier than fumbling the trophy, Vance additionally used a part of his speech to say the Buckeyes‘ greatest rival — singling out an viewers member in a Michigan hat.
“I do not know who let the man over within the nook right here, in a Michigan hat, into this celebration,” Vance stated. “However I am about to inform the Secret Service, ‘You’ve got received a harmful weapon, sir.'”
Reporting by The Related Press.
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