Donald Trump, Fernando Mendoza Getty Images (X2) Tap Here To Add Us Weekly As A Trusted Source Add as a preferred source on Google President Donald Trump tried to explain Fernando Mendoza's absence during the Indiana University Hoosiers football team visit the White House. "Now the reason he's not here - he was so nice, he called," Trump, 79, claimed to reporters on Monday, May 11, from Washington, D.C. "He's been great and he's at spring training, like his first day or something. I said, 'You better go there.