Sauce Gardner pokes enjoyable at Saquon Barkley controversy over Trump golf outing
Sauce Gardner poked a bit of enjoyable on the criticism of Eagles operating again Saquon Barkley on Monday.
Barkley, who helped lead the Eagles to a Tremendous Bowl title final season after leaving the Giants in free company, was criticized for {golfing} and touring with President Donald Trump over the weekend.
The star rusher fired again at his critics in a social media publish — and Gardner, a golfer himself, seemingly had some enjoyable with the entire thing and chimed in on a publish on X.
“My essential factor is why didn’t y’all ask him how he performed within the golf spherical first earlier than the political beliefs. He coulda PR’d on the market on that course,” the Jets nook wrote, presumably in regards to the Barkley state of affairs, together with a grinning face with sweat emoji.
Barkley had performed a spherical of golf with the President at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Sunday – the day earlier than the Eagles’ go to to the White Home to have fun their Tremendous Bowl title from earlier this yr.
The Eagles’ operating again had additionally been photographed on the White Home on Sunday with Trump’s grandson, Theodore Kushner, and was seen getting off Marine One at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey with Trump earlier than boarding Air Pressure One.
Barkley responded to the criticism in a publish on X on Monday forward of the staff’s White Home go to.
“Lol some individuals are actually upset trigger I performed golfed and flew to the White Home with the PRESIDENT,” he wrote. “Possibly I simply respect the workplace, not a tough idea to know. Simply golfed with Obama not too way back…and sit up for ending my spherical with Trump! “Now ya get out my mentions with all this politics and have wonderful day.”
Each Barkley and Gardner have taken up golf, with the operating again having picked up the game again in the summertime of 2021 and the Jets’ nook getting bit by the golf bug final summer season.
Gardner had posted a sequence of golf content material on his YouTube channel earlier this yr, which included a video of him making an attempt to interrupt par at Trump Nationwide Doral.
