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This past Sunday, Arizona Cardinals’ star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins made some news, but it wasn’t for anything he did on the football field. It was for being photographed allegedly flipping off some Donald Trump supporters at a parade, or “Trump Train,” while on his way to that night’s Cardinals-Seahawks game.
On Tuesday, Hopkins addressed why he decided to give the middle finger to the Trump supporters on Sunday during an appearance on the All Things Covered podcast.
“I really was about to give the peace sign to them, but this finger was kinda hurting so it didn’t make it up in time,” he said.
Hopkins also claimed during his explanation that he wasn’t speeding or driving aggressively towards the Trump caravan, saying, “If I was in a Ferrari speeding, I don’t think you would be able to take a still picture of me.”
@AZCardinals this is one of your own Deandre Hopkins flipping off people. Apparently weaving in and out of traffic during a Trump rally. Maybe he can set the example as a public figure and let people exercise their 1st amendment right. Great behavior from a Cardinal. pic.twitter.com/NgIzvmyrL2
— 🔱 Jamie Ritchie 🔱 (@jamieritchie_) October 26, 2020
Fast forward to Wednesday, and whoops, TMZ now has some videos of the encounter between Hopkins and the Trump caravan, and it certainly does appear that the Pro Bowl wideout was, in fact, speeding and driving rather recklessly.
In the first video, the speedometer of car of the driver who filmed Hopkins is clearly going between 60 and 70 mph when DeAndre blowspast him in what appears to be the emergency lane before making several high-speed lane changes as he weaved through the “Trump Train.”
A second video more clearly shows Hopkins passing cars in the shutdown lane.
So far the NFL has remained silent on whether Hopkins will face any punishment for the highway encounter.