President Trump has expressed his shock at the stabbing and arrest of Mark Sanchez, describing him as “a nice guy,” but adding that “something a little crazy” happened to the former Jets quarterback.

Sanchez, 38, was hospitalized early Saturday morning after being stabbed in the chest following an altercation with a grease truck driver outside an Indianapolis bar.

Trump said he knew the Fox Sports analyst and was stunned to hear the news of the attack and subsequent felony charges.

“He’s a nice guy. I don’t know what happened. Something bad happened. Something a little crazy happened,” Trump told Newsmax’s “Greg Kelly Reports” on Monday.

“I can only report that he was a nice guy. I know him a little bit,” he added.

Trump and Sanchez were pictured together at the launch of an NFL collaboration with clothing brand Marchesa in 2012

Sanchez was charged with battery after the fight on Sunday, with one of the charges upgraded to a felony on Monday.

If found guilty, he faces up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Timeline of the Mark Sanchez stabbing and arrest

Friday Night

• Mark Sanchez, 38, is in Indianapolis to serve as a Fox Sports analyst for the Raiders-Colts game on Sunday. He’s observed acting “erratically,” doing “wind sprints” in the alley behind Loughmiller’s Pub and Eatery in the downtown.

Just after midnight

• A grease truck driver picking up cooking oil from a nearby hotel parks his truck in the loading dock, blocking the alley where Sanchez is doing sprints.
• Sanchez approaches the driver to try to get him to move and eventually gets into an altercation where he body-slams him toward the wall and then to the ground.
• The driver sprayed Sanchez with mace or pepper spray, but the former NFL quarterback continues attacking him.
• The driver pulls a knife and stabs Sanchez two or three times in the chest, believing, “This guy is trying to kill me.”
• Sanchez turns around and heads up the alley.

12:30 a.m.

• Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers respond to a report of a person shot. They locate Sanchez in Loughmiller’s Pub.
• It’s later reported that Sanchez is uncooperative with responding officers. He tells the detective he can only remember “grabbing for a window” and nothing else about the incident.
• Sanchez is rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
• The driver also suffered “significant injuries,” including lacerations to his cheek and jaw, with a cut that allegedly went through his cheek and hit his tongue.

Saturday

• Sanchez undergoes surgery for stab wounds to the chest, and is stable.
• He is arrested at the hospital and charged with misdemeanor counts of battery resulting in injury, public intoxication, and unlawful entry of a motor vehicle.

Sunday

• Sanchez is discharged from the hospital Sunday morning and transferred directly to central booking at Marion County Jail, where he reportedly posts his $300 cash bond.

Monday

• Sanchez’s charges are upgraded from several misdemeanors to a Level 5 felony battery of causing serious injury.

During Monday night’s phone interview, the president also laid into the NFL for choosing Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl halftime show.

“I’ve never heard of him. I don’t know who he is. I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s like crazy,” Trump said.

“And then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous!” he added.

President Trump has long been a football fan, having previously tried to purchase the Baltimore Colts in 1981 and the Dallas Cowboys in 1984 — while also buying the short-lived New Jersey Generals in the NFL-challenging United States Football League in 1983.

The president also had some strong views on recent changes to the kickoff rules in the NFL, brought in to reduce injuries.

“While we’re at it, I’d like them to change the kickoff rule, which looks ridiculous, where the ball is kicked and the ball is floating in the air and everyone’s standing there watching it. It’s ridiculous!” he raged.

“It is not any safer than the regular kickoff. I think that it just looks so terrible. I think it really demeans football, to be honest with you,” he added.