Overview

• At the first day of Ravens training camp, Harbaugh challenged the “snarky” framing of a question about his White House visit, saying he would have asked about the experience.
• He called the trip an “amazing experience,” vowing that he “roots for our president” in the same way he backs his football team.
• Reporters pressed him on President Trump’s 2019 tweet calling Baltimore a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
• Harbaugh has met four presidents—Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Donald Trump—continuing a tradition of nonpartisan honors for championship coaches.
• Commentators have raised questions about the optics of visiting an administration that publicly disparaged his home city.