Barry Switzer says his widely reported meeting with Donald Trump was a prank

Former Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer does what he wants. That’s been the case for a long time now.

On Dec. 7, 2016, what he wanted to do was tell a crowd of media he was in the process of meeting with the president-elect even though he wasn’t, according to Barry Switzer:

Media widely reported Trump met with Barry Switzer, the former University of Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys coach who has known Trump for decades. But Switzer said he was shopping with his wife and daughter on Fifth Avenue and decided to walk into the Trump Tower lobby after seeing the Naked Cowboy. He had no meeting scheduled.

“All the media people said, ‘coach what are you doing here,’” Switzer said in an interview. “I told them I was here to see the president like everyone else.”

Switzer said he instead went upstairs in Trump Tower, bought a coffee at Starbucks and came back downstairs.

“I told the reporters I had a great visit, and that we were going to make the wishbone great again,” he said. “I told them I was going to be Secretary of Offense and that Trump knew how to run the ball down the field.”

“Then I went back to my hotel and laughed my ass off,” he said, still laughing this week. “It went everywhere. Everyone believed it. I had all these calls, but I was just jerking people around.”

News of the meeting was all over, with some fair skepticism by some:

He kept the story going on the way out of the building:

But this next tweet might’ve been a giveaway ... do we really think a Manhattan and Hollywood guy like Donald Trump remembers the name of an old college football offense popularized in the middle of the country?

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(Via Sam Stein.)

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