Lamar Jackson’s five-year-old tweet about U.S. President Donald Trump has resurfaced.
Back in April 2020, The Checkdown’s X/Twitter account posted an old video of then-Green Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander getting fired up when he learned that the Baltimore Ravens selected Lamar Jackson at No. 32 overall in 2018. Alexander and Jackson, now teammates with Baltimore, played together at Louisville.
Jackson posted the video with the caption, “🤞🏾🤞🏾Brodie @JaireAlexander.” President Trump shared the video on Twitter as well and responded with his own message:
Lamar Jackson responded to Trump’s comment, writing, “Truzz Trump”.
It’s easy to jump to conclusions and think this was a political tweet endorsing Trump, who would lose the 2020 election that year to Joe Biden. But Jackson informed reporters at the time that it wasn’t meant to be “political,” and he was simply agreeing with Trump’s post about him and Alexander:
“I wasn’t making no political statements or anything like that,” Jackson said after sending out the tweet. “I was just, like I said, just agreeing to what he was saying about me and my teammate. That’s all.”
Then-Ravens running back Mark Ingram started calling Jackson “Big Truss” during their first season together in 2019. To avoid a lawsuit, Jackson changed the phrase to “Big Truzz”, since a Las Vegas apparel company filed to trademark “Big Truss.”
Lamar Jackson & Ravens Open 2025 Season At Buffalo Bills
Jackson and the Ravens will be tested early when they visit Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills on ‘Sunday Night Football’ in the season opener. This will be a rematch of last season’s thrilling AFC Divisional Round contest, which Buffalo nearly won 27-25 after Mark Andrews dropped the game-tying two-point conversion attempt.
Including the postseason, Jackson is 3-3 in his career against the Bills, with Allen winning both playoff matchups. The Week 1 tilt could very well determine which club has home advantage in a potential January rematch, so the Ravens are playing for a lot more than revenge.
