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 His right hand over his heart, President Trump seemingly butchered the national anthem ahead of the college football championship game in Atlanta on Monday night. 
 
 Footage showed Trump standing near the 40-yard line and mouthing the wrong words as a choir of four harmonized, "at the twilight's last gleaming." 
 
 The White House did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily News. 
 
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 A pool reporter near the President was unable to determine what Trump was singing, or saying. 
 
 President Trump singing the national anthem before the NCAA college football playoff championship game on Monday. (David J. Phillip/AP) 
 
 “He seemed more excited to sing along near the end of the song,” the report said. 
 
 Before his apparent anthem flub, Trump was welcomed onto the field by a mixture of boos and cheers. 
 
 The White House announced last week that Trump would attend the high-stakes championship game between the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia. 
 
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 Trump's apparent slurring of the words stands in sharp contrast to his repeated attacks on black NFL players kneeling during the anthem. 
 
 President Trump was welcomed onto the field by a mixture of boos and cheers. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images) 
 
 Trump insists that the protesting footballers are "disrespecting" the flag and the anthem. Activists have attempted to correct Trump, pointing out that the players are protesting racism and police brutality, not the flag or the anthem. But Trump has refused to back down. 
 
 Before traveling to Atlanta from Tennessee on Monday afternoon, Trump tweeted, "We want our flag respected — and we want our NATIONAL ANTHEM respected also." 
 
 Trump's anthem fail set off a Twitterstorm of seething sarcasm. 
 
 "You know who knows the words to the National Anthem? Colin Kaepernick," Charlotte Clymer tweeted, referring to the football player who kicked off the kneeling protests. "Trump, you're a disgrace." 
 
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 With Nicole Hensley ||||| President Donald Trump watches the NCAA National Championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Atlanta, between Alabama and Georgia. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) 
 
 President Donald Trump watches the NCAA National Championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Atlanta, between Alabama and Georgia. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) 
 
 ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump got his own national anthem moment Monday when he took the field before Alabama and Georgia faced off in the College Football Playoff National Championship. 
 
 Months after wading into the culture war over protests during the anthem, the president was greeted by tens of thousands in Atlanta with cheers and a smattering of boos. After ROTC members escorted him onto the field, the president stood with his hand over his heart and an American flag pin on his lapel. He sang a few words as Georgia's Zac Brown Band and a gospel choir performed the anthem. 
 
 Trump has criticized professional football players who kneel during the anthem to protest racial injustice, as well as the NFL itself for allowing it. 
 
 "We want our flag respected," Trump said earlier Monday during a speech in Nashville, Tennessee, "and we want our national anthem respected also." 
 
 Most of the college players remained in their locker rooms during the anthem. 
 
 The president watched the game from a private box overlooking the Alabama sideline, flanked by ROTC students. The Tuscaloosa News had reported that he would appear on the Alabama radio broadcast during the game, but that didn't happen during the first two quarters. 
 
 Trump departed the stadium during halftime as Georgia led Alabama 13-0. Rapper Kendrick Lamar, who has been a critic of the president, performed during the break. 
 
 A few dozen protesters gathered near the stadium before the game, shouting anti-Trump slogans. But more fans seemed upset by the long lines to get into the event amid increased security. 
 
 ESPN, which televised the game, said Sunday that a game-time interview with Trump was unlikely. Stephanie Druley, ESPN senior vice president for events and studio programs, said the network had been in contact with the White House and she did not "get the sense" that an interview would be arranged. 
 
 Trump criticized ESPN in October after "SportsCenter" host Jemelle Hill tweeted that he was a "white supremacist." 
 
 A network will often seek to interview the president when he attends a game it is televising.
– President Trump was greeted with a mixture of cheers and boos when he took to the field in Atlanta before the College Football Playoff National Championship between Alabama and Georgia Monday night—and one Alabama player did more than boo. The players were kept in the locker room, as is usual for college football games, while Trump took to the field for the anthem, but a Crimson Tide player could be heard yelling "F--- Trump" in the tunnel moments before the game, USA Today reports. The player was initially identified as running back Bo Scarborough, though the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that in video from the tunnel, it isn't clear which player shouted the expletive. Trump watched the game from a private box overlooking the Alabama sideline and departed the Mercedes-Benz Stadium at halftime, the AP reports. Earlier Monday, Trump spoke about anthem protests. "We want our flag respected and we want our national anthem respected also," he said during a speech in Nashville. On the field in Atlanta, Trump sang a few words as Georgia's Zac Brown Band and a gospel choir performed the national anthem, though he appeared to mouth the wrong words as the choir sang "at the twilight's last gleaming," according to the New York Daily News. Alabama went on to beat Georgia 26-23 in overtime.