President Donald Trump joked about bending the rules on a potential bracket for college basketball’s March Madness.
Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Trump on Friday if he’d filled in a bracket for the 2025 NCAA basketball tournaments.
“I didn’t, I should have,” replied Trump, who caught heat for not doing so during his first term.
Former President Barack Obama, his first predecessor, routinely did.
“Have there been upsets? A couple, right?” the current president asked Doocy.
Doocy suggested it was now “too late” for Trump to fill in a bracket.
“A little bit late,” Trump acknowledged.
Then he came up with a way to get around that problem.
“I should give you one but maybe backdate it, right?” Trump asked.
Watch the exchange here:
As of Monday morning, there were no perfect brackets remaining in the men’s tournament and just 141 were left in the women’s in the NCAA’s official tracker.