Barry Switzer is a fast thinker and clearly wanted to have some fun with media. As he was casually walking on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, he happen to go inside of the Trump Tower lobby. That is where this all started.
Coach Switzer is back in the news and this time, he’s pranking folks because this is what you do when you’re retired. Many thought that Barry Switzer and Donald Trump had a meeting but it turns out that it was all a hoax. Switzer had one good laugh about this one.
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.”
If this wasn’t brilliantly thought of, I don’t know what was.
Switzer 1, Media 0.