A trio of Alabama public officials received shoutouts from Donald Trump on Wednesday as they witnessed the president sign an executive order banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s public school sports.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who penned a Senate bill codifying the executive order into law, got a seat to the signing ceremony along with Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.

Under the order, schools will have their Title IX federal funding yanked if they allow trans athletes to participate in women’s sports under Title IX.

“Under the Trump administration, we will defend the proud tradition of female athletes, and we will not allow men to beat up, injure and cheat our women and our girls,” the president said. “From now on, women’s sports will be only for women.”

Trump partly credited his stance on transgender athletes in women’s sports with his election victory.

“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” the president said to a standing ovation from the crowd. “This will effectively end the attack on female athletes at public K-12 schools and virtually all colleges and universities…”

During his remarks, Trump acknowledged Tuberville, Britt and Marshall, elaborating on Tuberville’s past as a college football coach and mistakenly saying he developed Super Bowl-winning quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

“A great coach,” Trump said of Tuberville, who was head coach at Auburn, Texas Tech and elsewhere before being elected to the Senate in 2020.

“You know, his quarterback was named Mahomes. He was a great college coach. And I said, ‘How good was he?’ He said, ‘You don’t wanna know how good. He made me into a great coach.’ He’s a pretty good quarterback, right? Yeah, he was very good. And he’s a good guy, too.”

Mahomes played at Texas Tech before being selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2017 NFL Draft but did not arrive in Lubbock until after Tuberville departed the school in late 2012.

Mahomes was a high school junior at the time — and in his first year as playing as a quarterback.

Tuberville had claimed that he recruited Mahomes to Texas Tech.

According to a fact check by the Cover 3 podcast, Texas Tech was recruiting another quarterback, D.J. Gillen, and Mahomes was not being recruited by Texas Tech until a month after Tuberville left the school for the University of Cincinnati and Gillen decommitted.