Trump disses Richmond MAGA radio host over son’s baseball career

John Fredericks, described over and over on the interwebs today as a “little-known Virginia radio host,” had quite the emasculating interaction with his hero, Donald Trump, on Friday.

Fredericks was blessed with a credential to cover Trump’s vanity “saving college sports” roundtable, which, as expected, was full of sound, fury and flatulence, signifying nothing.

Trump likes to take questions, particularly from MAGA sycophants like Fredericks, whose website brags about Trump being a “regular guest” on his radio show since 2015.

Funny that Trump doesn’t remember the guy at all, which we found out when it was Fredericks’s turn to ask a question at the Friday presser.

“As you know,” Fredericks began his question, “my son, Joe, is a high-level D-1 athlete, third-year relief pitcher, University of Maryland.”

Before our poor little-known Virginia radio host could get to whatever the substance of his question was going to be, Trump interrupted.

“How would I know that?” the POTUS said, dismissively, as laughter began to fill the room.

“He said, ‘As you know.’ I don’t even know who the guy is,” Trump said, then turned to his left to ask whoever that was sitting next to him, “Do you know who that is?”

I think the guy next to Trump was Marco Rubio, taking time off from being Secretary of State because, what else do we have going on that would require his attention?

Anyway.

Poor John Fredericks has had Trump on his show for years, assumes Trump remembers him, finds out the hard way that he doesn’t, and also makes it so that we have to tell that his son, Joe, is nothing close to being a “high-level D-1 athlete.”

Joe Fredericks is a junior at Maryland, where he has a 18.90 ERA in five appearances – seven runs, all earned, on six hits, six walks and a hit batter, in 3.1 innings.

This, after transferring in from two seasons at West Virginia, where he was pretty good as a freshman – 1.13 ERA in 18 appearances, though that was almost entirely in midweek games, in 2024, before only getting four relief appearances in 2025.