Trump in 2015: Goodell 'is a dope. He's a stupid guy'

Finally, a Donald Trump opinion that likely won't be met with the level of opposition to which he's grown accustomed.

In 2015, when President Trump was a Republican candidate, he ripped into NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for his treatment of Tom Brady and the New England Patriots during Deflategate.

"The commissioner is a weak guy," Trump said in 2015, reports the New York Times' Mark Leibovich in a story published Wednesday. "When he made the Ray Rice deal, everybody said: You're stupid. You're weak. And it was such a weak deal. So now he's going overboard with their star, Brady."

He added: "The commissioner is a dope. He's a stupid guy."

Trump said he was "disgusted" over Deflategate, and called Brady "a very good friend of mine."

Brady's relationship with Trump has come under greater scrutiny since he took office, but the quarterback has refused to answer any political questions in the run-up to Super Bowl LI.

"What's going on in the world? I haven't paid much attention. I'm just a positive person," Brady said Monday when asked about Trump's recent travel ban.