Trump signs executive order blocking college football games from competing with Army-Navy time slot

President Donald Trump delivered connected his committedness to support the contented of the yearly Army-Navy shot game, signing the "Preserving America’s Game" enforcement bid during the Midshipmen’s sojourn to the White House connected Friday. 

Navy defeated Army successful a thrilling 17-16 triumph to triumph the Commander successful Chief’s Trophy successful December during a historical play that saw the programme decorativeness 11-2, marking the team’s archetypal back-to-back 10-win seasons successful programme history. 

President Donald Trump holds up a helmet arsenic helium speaks during the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy presumption with the Navy Midshipmen shot squad successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, District of Columbia, connected March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The champions were honored with a White House visit, during which Trump signed the enforcement bid months aft signaling his intentions to combat the enlargement of the College Football Playoff. 

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"The yearly Army-Navy crippled is genuinely 1 of the astir peculiar occasions successful each of sports, but successful caller years, the College Football Playoff enlargement has encroached connected this ineffable four-hour clip slot traditionally reserved for Army-Navy," the president said during his code Friday.

"I'm going to motion an enforcement bid to guarantee that the 2nd Saturday successful December is preserved exclusively. Nobody's playing shot – not Ohio State against Notre Dame, not LSU against Alabama – nobody's going to play shot for 4 hours during that precise peculiar clip of the twelvemonth successful December. It's preserved everlastingly for the Army-Navy game." 

Trump joked that the ramifications of signing the enforcement bid mightiness effect successful a lawsuit. 

President Donald Trump holds up a signed enforcement bid during the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy presumption with the Navy Midshipmen shot squad successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, District of Columbia, connected March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

"Of course, we'll astir apt get sued astatine immoderate point. We volition get sued, but we triumph those suits and we'll triumph this one."

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"It's conscionable an grant to bash due to the fact that it's specified an important contented of our country," the president continued. "It's beyond football, actually. It's a contented of our country."

The enforcement bid states that "no assemblage shot game, specifically assemblage football’s CFP oregon different postseason games, beryllium broadcast successful a mode that straight conflicts with the Army‑Navy Game." 

Navy caput manager Brian Newberry echoed the president’s remarks aft the bid was signed.

"Thank you for signing that enforcement bid and protecting the sanctity of the Army-Navy game. It's a crippled with a soul, and it deserves to beryllium protected. Thank you precise much." 

President Donald Trump signs an enforcement bid during the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy presumption with the Navy Midshipmen shot squad successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, District of Columbia, connected March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump archetypal signaled his intentions to motion the enforcement bid successful a Truth Social station successful January, saying astatine the time, "This unthinkable Tradition is present astatine hazard of being pushed speech by much College Playoff Games, and Big TV Money. NOT ANYMORE!"

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The president has taken peculiar involvement successful assemblage shot during his 2nd term. Earlier this month, helium held a roundtable treatment with notable officials, including NCAA President Charlie Baker, erstwhile Alabama caput shot manager Nick Saban, New York Yankees President Randy Levine, and each of the Power Four commissioners, among others.

The radical met to analyse solutions to cardinal challenges, including NCAA authority, name, representation and likeness (NIL) issues, corporate bargaining, and governance concerns.

Fox News Digital’s Ryan Morik contributed to this report. 

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