Donald Trump has made it clear that he isn’t afraid of making his opinion known. Often time that opinion is controversial, to say the least. One of his recent decisions fell along the same lines as fans couldn’t believe that he was actually going through with it.
“He’s Actually Doing This?” Donald Trump Hires Registered Sex Offender And Former NFL Star, Fans Can’t Believe It
Lawrence Taylor, former New York Giants linebacker and current member of a council that advises on youth sports, is a convicted sex offender:
On July 31, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump appeared at the White House alongside U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a group of athletes to sign an executive order that would bring back the Presidential Fitness Test and reestablish the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.
However, in the days after the appearance, a claim circulated online that Lawrence Taylor, a former NFL linebacker whom Trump appointed to the council that would advise the president on matters including youth sports, was a registered sex offender.
The X account Republicans Against Trump wrote:
You literally can’t make this s*** up. Donald Trump launched a youth sports initiative at the White House today, appearing alongside Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender who pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct involving a trafficked 16-year-old girl. A new low.
The claim continued to circulate in the following days across Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived), Threads (archived), Bluesky (archived) and Reddit (archived). Snopes readers searched our site asking if the claim was true.
According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Lawrence Julius Taylor is a convicted sex offender listed in the state’s register at the time of this writing. The Taylor who appeared in the FDLE Sexual Offender Predator System is the same man who appeared alongside Trump at the White House on July 31, as evidenced by his photo and news reports. Taylor pleaded guilty (March 25, 2011, document) to two misdemeanor charges in 2011 in New York after admitting to having sex with a prostitute who was 16 years old at the time. As part of his release conditions, a New York court ordered Taylor to register as a sex offender. Therefore, we rate this claim tru
You literally can’t make this sh*t up
Donald Trump launched a youth sports initiative at the White House today, appearing alongside Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender who pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct involving a trafficked 16-year-old girl
A new low. pic.twitter.com/G6DC4lAy3q
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 1, 2025
We reached out to the White House to ask if officials knew about Taylor’s registration at the time of his appointment and whether they believed it appropriate to appoint a registered sex offender to advise the president on topics including youth sports. We await a reply to our query.
According to a July 31 executive order, titled “President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and the Reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test,” the council Trump appointed Taylor to will advise Trump on progress made in carrying out the provisions of the order (which included bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test) and recommend actions to further that progress.
The council, among other points, would also recommend “strategies for the development and promotion of Presidential challenges and school-based programs that reward excellence in physical education” and “bold and innovative fitness goals for American youth with the aim of fostering a new generation of healthy, active citizens.”
It was unclear at the time of this writing exactly what Taylor’s role on the council would be. That uncertainty extended, it seemed, to Taylor himself, who when Trump introduced him during the July 31 news conference, said:
I’m just proud to be on this team. I don’t know why, I don’t know what we’re supposed to be doing, but I’m here to serve, and I’m here to serve you, OK, so I’m going to do the best I can for as long as I can. Thank you very much.
Taylor pleaded guilty (March 25, 2011, document) to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute in March 2011 while staying at a Holiday Inn in Suffern, New York. A Rockland County, New York, judge initially classified (February 5, 2011, document) Taylor as a Level 1 sex offender in that state, though he noted that authorities in Florida would reclassify Taylor when he returned there. The Supreme Court in the County of Rockland, New York, said in Taylor’s sentencing report (March 25, 2011, document) it would transfer him to Broward County, Florida. The Journal News, a New York-based publication, reported that Taylor was visiting New York when he stayed at the Holiday Inn.
At the time of this writing, Taylor appeared with name, photograph and other biometric and biographical details in the FDLE Sexual Offender Predator System. People registered in this system must typically remain registered for life, according to the FDLE.
After Taylor’s guilty plea, Cristina Fierro, the then-16-year-old girl whom Taylor admitted to having nonconsensual sex with in 2010, sued Taylor in civil court seeking damages in a jury trial. A jury ruled in favor of Taylor in October 2012, dismissing Fierro’s complaint.
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