WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As a student, Donald Trump played high school football. As a business baron, he owned a team in ...

FILE - Donald Trump shakes hands with Herschel Walker in New York after agreement on a 4-year contract with the New Jersey Generals USFL football team, March 8, 1984. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff, ...

The president played football as a student at the New York Military Academy. As a New York businessman in the early 1980s, he owned the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League.

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis ... he owned the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League. Trump had sued to force a merger of the USFL and the NFL. The USFL eventually folded.

As Eric Hamilton spoke to a portion of this year’s honorees for the 63rd Annual George Wah Scholar-Leader-Athlete Awards Dinner, he could not help but be a little overwhelmed at ...

(Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images ... and the Buffalo Bills -- bought the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League in 1984. Eyeing a potential merger, Trump pushed for the ...

Trump, who once owned the New Jersey Generals of the now-defunct United States Football League ... She was seen taking a photo with cheerleaders of the Philadelphia squad before kickoff.

Perhaps most infamously, Trump bought into the upstart United States Football League in the 1980s and sought to compete ...

Perhaps most infamously, Trump bought into the upstart United States Football League in the 1980s and sought to compete directly with the NFL, a move widely seen as helping to doom the nascent league.