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President Donald Trump signed the “Preserving America’s Game” executive order Friday, which guarantees to maintain the annual Army-Navy recreation a standalone occasion in the course of the faculty soccer season.
Trump signed the order in the course of the Midshipmen’s go to to the White House on Friday to have fun their Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy victory, which is given to both Army, Navy or Air Force if one of many groups goes 2-0 in opposition to the opposite opponents in the course of the season.
Stephen A. Smith was not keen on the transfer.
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President Donald Trump shows an executive order he signed titled “Preserving America’s Game” to protect the printed time slot for the Army-Navy soccer recreation throughout a ceremony awarding the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy to the Navy Midshipmen soccer workforce within the East Room of the White House March 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
“It’s stuff like this from the president of the United States that p—– me off. And he’s sticking his nose in places that I don’t believe the president of the United States should be sticking their nose in,” Smith stated throughout his Friday afternoon SiriusXM present on Mad Dog Sports Radio, by way of Awful Announcing.
“Who the hell does this man think he is? Every single time I try to be fair and fair-minded to this president, he pulls some BS like this. It really p—– me off. It really p—– me off. Who the hell does he think he is?
“If the Army-Navy recreation is on NBC, FOX and CBS ought to be excluded from having its personal content material on its networks? Because the president issued some executive order that he doesn’t need something competing with Army-Navy, that he needs the main focus of the sports activities world on Army-Navy. Well, what in the event that they don’t need that? What in the event that they don’t need to watch Army-Navy? Who the hell is he to inform the printed world, ‘Nah, not at this time.’
“Who the hell does he think he is? It’s that kinda BS that’s got our country in a tizzy right now. That right there. Because you overstepping your damn bounds. Don’t you got enough things to be focused on? Now you trying to tell us what damn football games we should watch?! Who the hell does he think he is?”
President Donald Trump earlier than an Army-Navy recreation at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore Dec. 13, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP by way of Getty Images)
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With the present College Football Playoff schedule, the Army-Navy recreation sits between convention championship weekend and the primary weekend of the 12-team playoff. However, potential growth might result in earlier video games. The Army-Navy recreation shall be broadcast on CBS till 2038.
Navy defeated Army in an exciting 17-16 recreation to win the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy in December throughout a historic season that noticed this system end 11-2 for the workforce’s first back-to-back 10-win seasons in program historical past.
“The annual Army-Navy game is truly one of the most special occasions in all of sports, but in recent years, the College Football Playoff expansion has encroached on this sacred four-hour time slot traditionally reserved for Army-Navy,” the president stated throughout his speech Friday.
“I’m going to sign an executive order to ensure that the second Saturday in December is preserved exclusively. Nobody’s playing football — not Ohio State against Notre Dame, not LSU against Alabama. Nobody’s going to play football for four hours during that very special time of the year in December. It’s preserved forever for the Army-Navy game.”
Earlier this month, Trump held a roundtable to attempt to fight the results of NIL in faculty sports activities.
Trump joked that the ramifications of signing the executive order would possibly lead to a lawsuit.
“Of course, we’ll probably get sued at some point. We will get sued, but we win those suits, and we’ll win this one.”
President Donald Trump walks onto the sphere with Lt. Gen. Steven Gilland, Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, left, earlier than the beginning of the 126th Army-Navy recreation at M&T Bank Stadium Dec. 13, 2025, in Baltimore. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
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Trump first signaled his intentions to signal the executive order in a Truth Social put up in January, saying on the time, “This incredible Tradition is now at risk of being pushed aside by more College Playoff Games, and Big TV Money. NOT ANYMORE!”
Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
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