Former NFL star Antonio Brown hit the marketing campaign path for former President Trump Saturday in PIttsburgh.
Brown spent nearly all of his profession in Pittsburgh as a star for the Steelers, earlier than a controversial exit from the crew. He returned to the town to a cheering crowd as he “looks to make a positive difference.”
The previous All-Professional extensive receiver took the stage at a rally to ship a speech on behalf of Trump, whereas mocking Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
“Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, did you really know they want to put tampons in the boys’ bathroom?” Brown requested the group. “That’s really insane, right?”
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Walz, the governor of Minnesota since 2019, earned the nickname “Tampon Tim” from Republican opponents in 2023 after Walz signed a Minnesota regulation that mandates tampons be offered freed from cost in public faculties “to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12,” together with male college students.
The Harris-Walz marketing campaign has additionally made an effort to tie Walz’s stint as an assistant coach of the Mankato West Excessive Faculty soccer crew in Minnesota within the Nineties to his candidacy. Throughout Walz’s tenure as an assistant on the workers, the crew gained a state championship in 1999.
However Brown confirmed no respect for the previous assistant’s brief teaching profession throughout his speech Saturday.
“And, by the way, Tampon Tim Walz, he isn’t a real football coach. He could never guard me,” Brown mentioned. “Business will be booming going against Tampon Tim Walz.”
Brown even delivered to the stage former Steelers teammate Le’Veon Bell, who confirmed his assist for Trump with a T-shirt.
Former Pittsburgh Steelers gamers Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell go away the stage after Brown spoke in assist of former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, throughout a marketing campaign rally Oct. 19, 2024, in Latrobe, Pa. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)
Brown, a seven-time Professional Bowler and Tremendous Bowl champion, performed the primary 9 years of his profession in Pittsburgh, earlier than a feud with former quarterback Ben Roethlisberger resulted in him being traded to the Raiders in 2019. Throughout Saturday’s speech, Brown gave a shoutout to Roethlisberger, saying he was nonetheless his “favorite quarterback.”
Brown was out of the NFL for many of 2019 and the beginning of the 2020 season after a string of controversies in 2019, together with allegations of sexual assault. However Brown returned to affix Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, serving to the Buccaneers win the 2021 Tremendous Bowl through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brown’s profession with Tampa Bay ended after he threw his tools into the group throughout a recreation towards the New York Jets in Week 17 of the 2021 season. He hasn’t performed within the NFL since.
A number of arrest warrants have been issued since then for Brown, who has devoted his time to controversial social media exercise and forming his personal unofficial model he calls “CTESPN,” which he says is supposed to discover the traumas that athletes have been by way of. Brown has prompt he has continual traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), because of repeated mind accidents from soccer, and that his erratic conduct is a results of the illness.
FORMER NFL STAR AND TRUMP SUPPORTER ANTONIO BROWN JOINS VOTER-REGISTRATION EFFORT IN KEY SWING STATE
Former skilled boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. sits with former NFL participant Antonio Brown through the second half between the Miami Warmth and the Brooklyn Nets in Miami, Fla., March 26, 2022. (Jasen Vinlove/USA In the present day Sports activities)
CTE is a degenerative mind illness that may develop after repeated concussions or different traumatic mind accidents. The illness may cause behavioral and temper issues and problem considering and may result in dementia. Nonetheless, CTE can solely be recognized with a mind post-mortem after somebody has died.
A lot of Brown’s followers reside in western Pennsylvania and will solid vital votes in November.
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Brown has been a vocal supporter of former President Trump all through the present election cycle. The previous soccer star mentioned in Might he would endorse Trump throughout an interview with OutKick’s Nick Adams, praising the previous president’s background and contributions to figures within the hip-hop business.
“I’ve never met him. I’ve got admiration for his business moves, and I study his dad, Fred Trump. But I think Donald Trump is a good businessman and come[s] from a good family and has been a good president,” Brown mentioned. “I think he does some great things for my brothers in the music industry in regards to Lil Wayne, Kodak [Black].”
Brown has incessantly expressed his assist for Trump by way of memes and extra simple political messaging on his social media platforms.
After the assassination try on Trump throughout a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, Brown recommended the previous president for his resilience.
“Cue up Many Men by 50 and we gonna win the presidency in a landslide F—ing Legend of the Decade,” Brown wrote on X.
Former Pittsburgh Steelers gamers Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell go away the stage after Brown spoke in assist of former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, throughout a marketing campaign rally Oct. 19, 2024, in Latrobe, Pa. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)
Brown introduced he can be becoming a member of the voter registration effort in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, Oct. 4. He has ramped up his pro-Trump messaging on social media since then and has even met with Trump’s operating mate, JD Vance, and Donald Trump Jr.
A brand new Fox Information survey of Pennsylvania voters finds Harris narrowly forward of Trump by two factors (50-48%) amongst registered voters, whereas the race is tied at 49% every amongst doubtless voters.
Trump’s most loyal followers embrace males, Whites with out a school diploma, independents and rural voters. He has practically doubled his lead amongst males and the small group of independents since July.
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