Carter Starocci, who won his unprecedented fifth NCAA wrestling title on Saturday at 184 pounds, told Newsmax on Monday that President Donald Trump could have been anywhere, but he chose to support college wrestling that night.

Starocci told “Finnerty” that after his match, he and Trump exchanged a few words.

Trump was telling me, the wrestler said, “he really likes my mindset and that he watches a lot of my interviews, and he enjoys my personality and who I am as a person. And I told him the same thing as well.”

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