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The ESPN star, Paul Finebaum, said he was finishing a possible interview with President Donald Trump in 2019 before the network finally eliminated her before sitting with him.
Finebaum spoke with the founder of Outkick, Clay Travis, and opened several songs, including his attempt to interview Trump for his ESPN show. Trump was ready to appear in the LSU and Alabama game that Fall and Finebaum said he wanted to go further.
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ESPN Paul Finebaum announcer before the 2024 SEC championship game at the Mercedes-Benz stadium on December 7, 2024. (Brett Davis/Imagn images)
“Our producer said we have to do something big,” said Finebaum. “‘College Gameday’ was going to be there. Obviously, our program is not ‘College Gameday’. Then, I communicated with a friend of mine in DC, said:” Do you get Trump? “I said, yes!
“I was ‘arriving’ and ‘Take’ in New York two days a week. I said I will be in New York on Wednesday. He said: ‘I think we could do it at the White House on Thursday morning. Can you get there?’ I said: ‘Yes, I can get there.
“I called my boss and killed him.”
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President Donald Trump and his wife Melania were at home at the Bryant-Denny stadium to see Alabama vs. game. LSU on Saturday, November 9, 2019. (Personnel photo/Gary Cosby Jr.)
Finebaum told Travis that he was “devastated” that the interview was rejected in the last second. He said they told him that he “allowed to mix policy with sports.”
The University Soccer Analyst has long suggested that he was surprised since the University Basketball Analyst Andy Katz chose the NCAA basketball tournament with President Barack Obama.
“I think the answer is quite evident that Andy Katz went to the White House every year (for the group). It was a turning point,” said Finebaum. “It was not politics at all. It was the idea of going to the White House to interview the president of the United States. It was not a politics. It was a football game. The biggest game of the year in university football.
“I never knew where the ‘kill button came from’, but it didn’t happen.”
President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the White House dining room, on Monday, September 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
ESPN declined to comment.
The complete conversation between Finbaum and Travis will be broadcast on Tuesday morning.
