Trump scores six touchdowns in BYU jersey after Secret Service bans touching
White House calls game highly competitive; defenders required to maintain a respectful fifteen-foot cushion.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump declared himself BYU’s leading rusher after scoring six touchdowns in a White House touch-football game whose defensive rules prohibited touching, approaching, or making the ball carrier feel hurried.
Wearing a royal-blue BYU jersey over his shirt and tie, Trump took the opening handoff and advanced thirty yards while his opponents received a briefing on acceptable pursuit angles.
“They called it touch football,” he said afterward. “Frankly, very disrespectful.”
The president’s protection detail clarified that the game still permitted defense. Players could identify where they would have touched him, provided they submitted their intentions in advance and remained fifteen feet away.
One defender was credited with a hypothetical stop before the play was overturned because his tone had suggested tackling.
Nobody could stop him
Trump’s second touchdown came on a quarterback sneak that took forty-six seconds and included a brief discussion of the lawn.
His third followed a pass to himself. Officials initially ruled the throw incomplete before an aide explained that the ball had been delivered to the correct general area.
“Six touchdowns. Nobody could stop me,” Trump said. “A few people tried, but they were spoken to.”
A White House spokesman described the contest as highly competitive, pointing out that the defense had forced the president to change direction twice: once around a sprinkler and once toward a television camera.
BYU staff were asked whether the performance would affect the depth chart. A team representative said they had not yet identified which of the six touchdowns involved an opposing player legally allowed to participate.
Trump nevertheless claimed an offer and said the Cougars would have been No. 1 already if the poll had included his afternoon.
A new definition of contact
Late in the game, the defense attempted a zone scheme. Agents immediately expanded the zone.
A linebacker argued that touch football requires somebody to touch somebody. He was reassigned to carrying the orange cones, which were instructed to stay out of the running lane.
The president ended the afternoon by counting his walk back to the White House as additional rushing yardage.
At press time, the defense had finally recorded a stop after Trump reached a locked door.
