The miserable Washington Commanders follow-up to their surprise 2024 NFC Championship Game run continued Sunday with a 44-22 thumping at the hands of the Detroit Lions, which was punctuated by the home crowd lustily booing the presence of one Donald Trump, who had been invited to the game by the franchise’s billionaire oligarch owners.
Seems that Trump wants the $3.7 billion new stadium for the team being built in DC with other people’s money to be named for him, which is par for the course for that guy.
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Fox Sports, which broadcast the game, had Trump join its booth – because of course they did, being Fox – for an excruciating nine minutes, and made sure its jock-sniffer mouthpieces, Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma, not only didn’t push back on the torrent of lies from the Commander-in-Chief, but actually enabled it.
It was Vilma, a 10-year NFL veteran linebacker, who was suspended for five games in 2012 for his role in a scandal in which he was found to have offered New Orleans Saints teammates $10,000 if they were to knock Vikings QB Brett Favre out of the 2009 New Orleans-Minnesota NFC Championship Game, who teed up Trump with a question about “where we are as a nation.”
“We’re doing great,” Trump, as if on cue, responded. “People have spirit, our stock market hit an all-time high. Prices are coming down. We inherited a mess. Prices are coming way down. And I’ll tell you, our country has over $17 trillion being invested in it, which is a record. So, I’ll tell you, we’re doing great.”
None of that is true, and as you would expect, from jock-sniffers in a Fox Sports booth, there was no pushback, instead, a pivot from Trump lying about the economy to high-school football career, such as it was – his yearbook listed him as a member of the JV team at New York Military Academy in 1960 and 1961.
The school had a total enrollment of around 120 students in Trump’s years there, so you’d think the approach to football would have been, every man on deck.
And even with that being the case, the coaches were like, nah, we had this chucker on the JV team for two years, we did our duty.
Vilma, perhaps seeking a retroactive pardon for the five games he served for “Bountygate” back in 2012, asked Trump “how many touchdowns did you have back then, six, seven?”
The teens watching – OK, there were none; teens don’t watch TV anymore – but if there had been any tuned in, they would have giggled at the “six, seven” reference.
“I’m not sure I had any,” said Trump, who, again, was on the JV team for two years, didn’t make it to varsity, so, no, no TDs.
“It was a long time ago,” he tried to play it off, as if he was simply not wanting to bore us with the details of how he scored four touchdowns in a game with Polk High.
“At least you realize that I never tell a lie, right?” Trump sniffed.
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