{"id":374362,"date":"2025-11-12T20:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/374362\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:52:12","slug":"lions-amon-ra-st-brown-apologizes-if-trump-dance-offended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/374362\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions&#8217; Amon-Ra St. Brown apologizes if &#8216;Trump dance&#8217; offended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 12, 2025, 03:27 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56caffee-178d-f6f2-a076-b277486b8c32\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a> wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4374302\/amon-ra-st-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amon-Ra St. Brown<\/a> has apologized if he &#8220;offended anyone&#8221; with his &#8220;Trump dance&#8221; touchdown celebration last Sunday while President Donald Trump was in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, if I offended anyone, I do apologize. I did not mean to offend anyone. It was just, we&#8217;re having fun,&#8221; St. Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-wQg98XgWEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said on the &#8220;St. Brown Podcast&#8221;<\/a> that he co-hosts with his brother <a data-player-guid=\"0d2d1a5b-875e-7033-a85a-ca1d3a5347ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3932442\/equanimeous-st-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Equanimeous St. Brown<\/a>. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Amon-Ra St. Brown pointed into the stands at Northwest Stadium on Sunday and moved his arms a la the &#8220;Trump dance&#8221; that several athletes began doing last year.\u00a0AP Photo\/Stephanie Scarbrough<\/p>\n<p>Clips of St. Brown&#8217;s celebration went viral on social media and received backlash from some fans.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, on Sunday, became the first sitting president since Jimmy Carter in 1978 to attend a regular-season NFL game as the Lions defeated the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fbeaf73e-6d6c-cca4-0809-713d9d741f90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-commanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Commanders<\/a> 44-22 at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46911110\/donald-trump-attends-commanders-lions-first-sitting-president-regular-season-nfl-game-jimmy-carter\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1573425_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>St. Brown did the celebration and pointed to the stands after a 9-yard touchdown catch in the first quarter, before the president arrived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were just having fun, doing the dance. Nothing more, nothing less,&#8221; St. Brown said on the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Trump reacted to St. Brown&#8217;s celebration by reposting a video to Truth Social that included a caption that dubbed the receiver &#8220;Amon-Ra St. Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 12, 2025, 03:27 PM ET Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown has apologized if he &#8220;offended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":374363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-374362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115538713404824389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}