Well, here’s a clever way to dunk on President Donald Trump.

After their NCAA championship victory over the weekend, Jimmy Kimmel invited a few players from UCLA’s women’s basketball team onto his show Thursday night — and presented them with a funny gift.

Towards the end of Kimmel’s interview with players Lauren Betts, Kiki Rice, Gabriela Jaquez, Angela Dugalić and coach Cori Close, Kimmel asked the women if Trump had acknowledged their win — being that it’s the school’s first-ever NCAA women’s basketball title.

“Have you heard from our current president?” Kimmel asked.

The question was somewhat loaded, considering the U.S. women’s hockey team fiasco earlier this year — and Trump’s troubling treatment of women.

When UCLA women responded by saying there’s been nothing but crickets on Trump’s end, Kimmel continued.

“He’s busy, in two weeks you’ll hear from him,” Kimmel joked, referring to Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran. “In the event that you do get invited to the White House, and you decide to go to the White House, I have something for you, OK?”

He then gestured to the team’s actual NCAA championship trophy that was sitting on his desk and said, “Do not bring this to the White House.”

Instead, Kimmel offered the women a fake trophy they could bring.

“He’s not going to know,” Kimmel said of the phony trophy. “But when you bring a trophy, he sometimes takes it and keeps it for himself.”

He continued, “So this is for you guys to take to the White House, and then you can say, ‘President Trump, we want you to have this.’ And he’ll be so happy, you’ll probably get an endowment. And you’ll be able to keep the real one! It’s called the old switcheroo.”

In August 2025, soccer fans were pretty shocked to learn that the 24-karat gold FIFA World Cup trophy wasn’t with Chelsea F.C. — the team that won it — but in Trump’s Oval Office.

Trump told British sports streamer DAZN at the time that Chelsea F.C. was given a replica.

According to Trump, FIFA President Gianni Infantino asked him to take care of the reportedly $230,000 trophy during his visit to the White House the previous month.

“We put it in the Oval Office and then I said: ‘When are you going to pick up the trophy,’ and [Infantino] said: ‘We’re never going to pick it up. You can have it forever in the Oval Office,’” Trump recalled.

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