{"id":479439,"date":"2026-10-28T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479439\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:16:09","slug":"colt-mccoy-absent-from-expected-trump-texas-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479439\/","title":{"rendered":"Colt McCoy absent from expected Trump Texas appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McCoy<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ColtMcCoy\/status\/2115181189011276141?a=tPEU2X8d7QgT58pEIvo&amp;s=20\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">\u00a0posted on X<\/a> to say he spent the day at Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose, Texas\u00a0\u2014 southwest of Fort Worth, where he now lives. There was no formal acknowledgment of the reported campaign appearance with former Texas A&amp;M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel and two-time Super Bowl champion Texas Tech star Danny Amendola.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fans questioned whether his return to X \u2014 he hadn&#8217;t posted since March \u2014 was a subtle nod to let the public know he wasn&#8217;t attending the Trump rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The American-Statesman reached out to McCoy for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy in college football\u00a0\u2014 I watch that a lot\u00a0\u2014 Johnny Manziel,\u201d Trump said on Tuesday in Corpus Christi, when shouting out the two players. \u201cI didn\u2019t know you were a freshman. I swear to God. Thank you, fellas, great athletes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s two campaign stops follow his rally in San Antonio earlier this month. Vice President JD Vance will also be returning to Texas for a rally in Weatherford on Thursday, roughly two weeks after his last visit to the state for a rally in Tyler.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCoy\u00a0posted on X to say he spent the day at Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose, Texas\u00a0\u2014 southwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-479439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}