Trump’s endorsement draws reaction from Giants’ John Harbaugh

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – New York Giants head coach John Harbaugh responded to President Donald Trump’s endorsement Tuesday as he was formally launched to the media in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Fox Information Digital requested Harbaugh the way it felt to obtain the president’s endorsement.

“It feels actually nice,” Harbaugh mentioned with an enormous smile. “I additionally seen that on that message he mentioned, ‘And John, take the job!’ So I believed possibly John Mara had one thing to do with that. I do not know. Nevertheless it’s cool.

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New York Giants head coach John Harbaugh speaks to the media after being launched throughout a press convention on the crew’s NFL soccer coaching facility. The occasion befell in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Tuesday, January 20, 2026. (Adam Starvation/AP Photograph)

“It is sports activities. Everyone’s excited. Everyone’s following it. At each stage, persons are following soccer. They’re following the Giants. They’re following the Nationwide Soccer League. Like we mentioned, it is the largest sport. It is probably the most iconic franchise within the greatest sport. So right here we’re.”

Trump as soon as once more had glowing phrases to say in regards to the former head coach of the Baltimore Ravens as he spoke to the White Home press earlier than returning to Washington, D.C. from the Soccer Nationwide Championship.

He mentioned he did not suppose he had any affect on the choice, however added that the Giants had been getting a “nice coach.”

“I really like the coach. I really like his brother,” he mentioned. “They got here to see me about three months in the past. They got here to see me on the White Home with their mother and pop, as a result of the mother likes me, and the dad likes me, and I believe they like me.

“And he is an important coach and he’ll do effectively with the Giants, identical to his brother is doing so effectively. They’ve one thing very particular of their blood. And I am completely satisfied for the Giants. They’ve an important coach.”

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New York Giants head coach John Harbaugh speaks to the media after being launched throughout a press convention on the crew’s NFL soccer coaching facility. The occasion befell in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Tuesday, January 20, 2026. (Adam Starvation/AP Photograph)

Trump first endorsed Harbaugh in a put up on Reality Social, and later particularly endorsed the concept of ​​the Giants hiring him.

“Surely, the New York Soccer Giants ought to rent John Harbaugh. And John, an important man, ought to take the job!!!” he wrote earlier this month.

John and Jim Harbaugh and their households met with Trump on the White Home this summer season. The assembly prompted Harbaugh to defend himself after a reporter requested a query in regards to the go to following Trump’s earlier feedback criticizing Baltimore as a metropolis.

“The way in which you phrased that query — I’d have framed that query as, ‘You bought an opportunity to go to with the president, man. What was that have like?'” Harbaugh mentioned on the time. “It was nice. It was nice. And I promise you, I am rooting for our president. I need our president to achieve success, identical to I need my quarterback to achieve success, and I need my crew to achieve success, and it was an important expertise. It is not usually that you just get invited and also you get an opportunity to do one thing like that as a household.”

Jim Harbaugh echoed his brother’s sentiments.

“There’s a whole lot of gratitude to be invited to the White Home to satisfy the president with my household, my mother and pop. President Trump was simply great to my mother and pop. That meant a lot. My brother John; his daughter Allison; my two daughters, Addie and Katie; and my sister Joanie; and my niece Ainsley. So there have been 9 of us, and it was great.”

President Donald Trump excursions the Ford River Rouge Advanced in Dearborn, Michigan on January 13, 2026. (Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)

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The Ravens made the playoffs 12 occasions underneath Harbaugh and received the Tremendous Bowl within the 2012 season, a yr after the Giants’ most up-to-date championship.

Fox Information’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.