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Tom Brady opens up about his 'friend' Donald Trump: 'I've always had a good time with him'

During Tom Brady’s weekly hit with Boston radio show Kirk and Callahan on WEEI Monday morning, the hosts asked the quarterback about his refusal to discuss Donald Trump’s 2005 comments where the Republican presidential nominee said he gropes and kisses women without their consent (many women have since come forward and said Trump did indeed do so). When a reporter at a press conference asked Brady about Trump’s “locker room talk” last week, rather than denounce Trump the way many people in the sports world have, Brady shook his head and walked away from the podium.

Brady told WEEI he didn’t answer the question because the Patriots organization is one where players are taught “really to say very little.” He then went on a fairly long tangent about how he’s always used people who’ve doubted him as motivation. He also said he tries not to make headlines.

Brady was first spotted with a Make America Great Again hat in his locker over a year ago, and said, a week after that, that a Trump presidency would be great (he described Trump as “a good friend” who has done “amazing things”). Brady then walked those comments back, saying he never actually endorsed Trump.

After Brady talked about how people haven’t believed in him throughout his career, either Kirk or Callahan asked Brady if the Donald Trump he knew was the Donald Trump you see on TV. The hosts told Brady that Trump was “fine with us” when he went on their show once.

Brady stood by his friend and golfing buddy, Donald J. Trump:

“Like I said, I met him, you know, I guess, 16 — 15, 16 years ago. So we’ve just played golf together many, many times and, you know, I’ve always had a good time with him. Like I said, he’s been a friend of mine,  supported our team. He’s been on the Patriots sidelines a lot and always called me after games to encourage me over the course of 15 years. And, you know, so that’s kind of the way it is.”

The hosts then asked Brady if he could confirm or deny that he’d be voting for Trump on Election Day, and Brady laughed for a while. He then said he was voting, and that maybe he’d talk about which candidate he chose after “Super Tuesday or whatever it is.”

For what it’s worth, Super Tuesday is actually a day early in February or March when the greatest number of states hold primary elections. It is not, in fact, November 8.

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