MLB free agent pitcher Noah Syndergaard exits the White House following a meeting with the President's Council on Physical Fitness on May 5, 2026. Andrew Leyden/ZUMA / SplashNews.com

The president and a baseball star spent a day together in the White House.

This isn’t a set-up for a bawdy joke, but the origins of a cry from the world of sports that Donald Trump is, in fact, a decent, vital and, most important, sharp-as-a-tack dude.

“I’m envious of the mental energy that this guy has, the sharpness he has, the comedic nature of everything he says,” marveled former New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard — or “Thor,” as he’s known — after spending time in the Oval Office.

Syndergaard sounded completely gobsmacked while describing the budding bromance.

“I just really don’t quite understand the negativity or the pessimism he gets with the media and some of the population of this nation, because he’s just such a patriotic guy and he cares so much about everybody and just the health of this nation and the…