Ex-NFL star Clay Matthews dishes on hilarious Trump stunt at draft

Green Bay Packers legend Clay Matthews told Fox News Digital his hilarious NFL Draft Day story, where his mom thought he was going to New England after missing Green Bay trading back into the 1st round to grab him.

Green Bay Packers great Clay Matthews pulled a hilarious stunt at the NFL Draft in Green Bay last month. 

Matthews, 38, was on stage to kick off the draft with other former Packers’ stars and superfan Lil’ Wayne. He stepped up the microphone and said he had a "message" to deliver from President Donald Trump.

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Former Green Bay Packers running back Ahman Green, left, and former linebacker Clay Matthews hype up the crowd after reading a note from President Donald Trump that read "The Bears still suck" before the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)

"I just got off the phone with the president, Donald Trump. He asked me to pass a message along to all 32 NFL franchises. Let me tell you what it reads here, alright?" Matthews began.

"It says, ‘My fellow Americans, the Bears still suck!’"

Matthews' stunt sent the Green Bay crowd and social media into a frenzy. The idea for the stunt began when he first found out he was going to be on stage. 

"I looked at last year's (NFL Draft in Detroit) and it was Calvin Johnson, Barry Sanders, Aiden Hutchinson, Jared Goff, and I thought it was great. You got a mixture of legends and current players and but they all went up there, and they just screamed into the mic. I was just like I don't really just want to get up there and be like Green Bay make some noise so I was like let's make this memorable." Matthews said during