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You’ve been here six times, and this is your first time in the Oval. They didn’t invite you. Trump invites you.”

President Trump to Alabama football coach Nick Saban, according to The Washington Post, as the Tide visited the White House on Tuesday to be honored for their win over Georgia in the College Football Playoff title game, which Trump attended in Atlanta. The president was referring to Saban’s previous visits when Barack Obama and George W. Bush were in office. Unlike his predecesso­rs, Trump invited Saban, AD Greg Byrne and school president Stuart R. Bell into the Oval Office before the ceremony.

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