Tom Brady claims the media has “mischaracterized a lot” about his and Donald Trump’s relationship — namely, that they shared the same political stances. In a Variety interview published on July 14, the Tampa Bay Buccaneer revealed, “I haven’t talked to him in a lot of years.” According to Brady, their bromance started cooling down when he didn’t visit the White House after the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2017.
As for his takes on Trump’s political maneuvering, Brady said elliptically, “My personality isn’t ever one to insult anybody. I have plenty of my own flaws. I’m not here to point out anyone else’s flaws. There are things that I agree with. There are things that I don’t. There are things I agree with my wife about. There are things that I don’t.”
Certainly, being labeled as a Trump BFF couldn’t have been easy on Brady. “I’m not responsible for what other people say,” he told Variety. Even back in 2020, Brady told Howard Stern that their friendship made life “uncomfortable” at times leading up to the 2016 election. “You can’t undo things, not that I would undo a friendship, but political support is a lot different than the support of a friend,” he told Stern at the time. Moreover, as Brady told Variety, politics just ain’t his thing. “I don’t think anyone’s fond of politics these days,” he observed.
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