Favre says US ‘was in better shape’ with Trump: ‘Donald was a nonpolitical president’
Heather Hamilton
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Former NFL star quarterback Brett Favre said the United States “was in better shape” during the Trump administration.
While speaking on the Fearless with Jason Whitlock podcast, Favre called former President Donald Trump “nonpolitical.”
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“I think our country was in better shape with him,” Favre said of Trump. “I think Donald was a nonpolitical president, and I liked that about him. Was he perfect? Absolutely not. Am I perfect? Absolutely not. I’m flawed, just like the rest of them. We’re all flawed. But I really felt like he had our country in a better place and really cared about our people in our country.”
Favre noted he does not agree with “everything Donald Trump does or says” but that he appreciated how the former president stood by the public.
“Black, white, Hispanic, Asian — you name it,” he added. “I think if you were an American citizen, he cared about you, first and foremost. I don’t know if our current president has the same mentality.”
The former Green Bay Packers quarterback also said, “Some things we’re allowing in this country are beyond belief,” particularly noting the debate surrounding transgender people’s rights.
“To think that a young man who identifies as a girl … can go into a girls’ bathroom and use the restroom with girls, and for us to think that’s OK, I think is wrong. I’m sorry,” Favre said. “I just think some things we’re allowing in this country are beyond belief … some of the thoughts and beliefs we’re seeing are crazy.”
Favre suggested that too many athletes are afraid to speak out against policies paving the way for biological males who identify as transgender females to participate in women’s sports.
“I think maybe [the] vast majority [of athletes] are afraid of what it’ll do to their career,” Favre said. “And it’s not affecting them directly. Not yet, at least. Who knows where this country’s going? It may affect them somewhere down the road. Is it too late? I don’t know. It’s scary.”
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In 2021, Favre also spoke out against transgender female athletes participating in women’s sports, calling it “unfair.”
“It’s a man competing as a woman,” Favre said on his podcast, Bolling with Favre, at the time. “It’s not fair for a man, even if this person wants to be a woman or feels compelled — if you want to become the opposite sex, that’s fine. I got no problem with it. But you can’t compete against — males cannot compete against females.”