Wes Moore

It was it was at the Army Navy game and the Army Navy game was taking place in my state.

But also as an Army guy, like I, I don't I don't like missing Army Navy games, period, because I just want to see the Army win.

And they're like, the president elect would like to meet you.

And I was like, that's that's cool.

And so he comes up.

And as soon as I saw him, I said, you know, welcome back to Maryland, Mr. President.

And the first thing he said to me, he says, you're a really good looking guy in person.

And I was just like, thank you, Mr. President.

I was like, go army.

And then he said, how can I help you?

And then I started talking about, he said, he told me, he said, he said, my people are telling me you're doing a really good job.

And he said, how can I help you?

And I said, and I said, I want to talk to you about the bridge.

Because months before I met him, we had one of the most tragic moments in our state's history when the Key Bridge collapsed after being hit by a ship.

And, you know, told him what we're working on.

This is the fastest moving project, major project in the country right now.

And somehow that conversation in his own mind turned into me telling him that he was the greatest president of my lifetime.

So it was fascinating hearing his recollection of something that just never happened.

Well, no, I mean, the really powerful thing is that whenever the president was making these, you know, these tropes about Baltimore and our chaos and the violence, the reality is that he just had no data to reinforce it.

In fact, what we saw was that since I've been the governor, we've actually done something really unique, which is work together with local law enforcement, with local leadership, the mayor of Baltimore, county executives around the state.