(The Hill) — The College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy came apart during a White House visit by the Ohio State Buckeyes football team Monday as Vice President JD Vance tried to pick it up.

As President Donald Trump posed for pictures with the team, Vance, an Ohio State alumnus, walked over to a table where the trophy was sitting and picked it up with the help of others. As he lifted the trophy, its black base separated from its metallic top.

“I didn’t want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy so I decided to break it,” Vance said in a post on the social platform X in response to another post featuring a video of the incident.

Ohio State won 34-23 over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the College Football Playoff in January. The game between Notre Dame and Ohio State occurred on the same day as President Trump’s inauguration this year.

Before the inauguration, Vance said in a post on X, “Hopefully everyone is cool with me skipping the inauguration so I can go to the national title game.”

Vance said a few days later that he was joking in the post and that he would “be there doing my constitutional duty and swearing in as the 50th vice president of the United States.”