Today is President Donald John Archie Bunker Trump's 74th birthday, which puts him 10 months & 10 days younger than one of his best known celebrity friends, Vince McMahon. And while McMahon, who'll be 75 in August, has cut back on his television appearances in recent years, a rather wise decision at that, Trump can't go a day without making headlines. And his birthday is just another day.
Trump has long maintained the delusion that football players and other athletes kneeling during the national anthem is considered disrespect toward the American flag. It really isn't, but you can't convince him of that. The faux tough guy pose he's maintained for so long is meant for his primary voter base, but the general perception of the President is that of a spoiled child who was never weaned off the habits of his youth.
A retired Marine had been the one to convince then-San Francisco QB Colin Kaepernick to take a stand against racial inequality four years ago. That's the part of the story Trump is ignoring. So after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had decided to reverse field on the league's stand toward players kneeling, and when a soccer commissioner followed suit a week later, Trump's reaction was predictable.
And this clown has a degree from an Ivy League university?? Now he wants to "boycott" the NFL & MLS?!? This nut spends more time on Twitter being a bully than actually doing his job. I hear he wants to put Bibles back in public schools, but you don't hear about that on the evening news. No, instead, we hear daily about how he is the Ugly American President, and he's likely continuing his shell game with evangelical ministers across the country in order to ensure their votes.
Meanwhile, after an Atlanta police officer shot and killed an African-American who'd been passed out in his car, the Wendy's where the incident took place was torched in retaliation. Wrong answer to the incident, in this writer's view. However, we have a modern day Nero who is fiddling instead of looking for the right solutions to this problem. You really don't want to know where this goes from here.
To paraphrase actor Ron Perlman on Twitter: The NFL and MLS just called, and guess what? They don't give 2 squats what Fat Donny thinks.
ReplyDeleteHere's a thought, Cheetolini: instead of trying to force Americans to stand for the Anthem, why not work to create a sane, fair and humane society so that everybody wants to?
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ReplyDeleteIt seems that Fred Trump Jr's daughter is about to release a memoir about how her Uncle Donald (along with two of the President's sibs) cut off Fred III's severely ill son from medical insurance, due to a long-standing dispute over Fred Sr's estate.
This is how Mr. President treats his own family.
What chance do the rest of us have?
Mike: I've read about the memoir. Watch. Uncle Donnie will try to block that, along with Bolton's forthcoming book. Good luck with that, President Pampers!
ReplyDeleteSilverstar: Trump has the same allergy in relation to actual work as one Maynard G. Krebs, Dobie Gillis' best buddy. Coronavirus cases are spiking back up, and President Pampers wants to start holding rallies again? Idiot!
"WORK??!!?"" I love that reference!
ReplyDeleteStill resonates today, doesn't it?
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