Trump is still a politician, after all
He probably doesn’t care, but wants to get on the right side of the media hype and the likely unavoidable racial posing which will occur when the kid doesn’t get drafted, because of the circus surrounding him and his father Deion.
But, Mediaite being who they are, they couldn’t resist the opportunity to paint the president as a non-serious buffoon who has gone off the rails over an utterly unimportant situation.