Tom Brady doesn't mind teammates skipping White House visit

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Much has been made about a number of Patriots players decisions to skip the upcoming White House visit with President Donald Trump. But tons of people, including Tom Brady, don't see it as a big deal.

The Patriots quarterback, whom you'd have to believe will attend based on his friendship with President Donald Trump, said he doesn't mind if his teammates don't go.

ESPN:

"It really is a great experience," Brady told "PFT Live." "Putting politics aside, it never was a political thing. At least, it never was to me. It meant you won a championship and you got to experience something cool with your team, with your teammates. Everyone has their own choice. It's an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody. You only get so much time with your family and friends, and if people don't want to go they don't want to go, and that's their choice."

Brady continued:

"There's certain years, like a couple years ago, I wanted to go and didn't get the opportunity based on the schedule," Brady told "PFT Live." "We didn't get told until I think like 10 days before we were going, and at that point I had something I'd been planning for months and couldn't get there."

There was a lot of noise around Brady's absence from the White House visit in 2015 with then-President Barack Obama, which was also ridiculous. Brady reportedly had a family arrangement at the time, which is why he couldn't attend.

As an aside, I really hate that this is getting so much attention and believe, I don't enjoy writing about it. But alas, it is news.

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