ESPN Host: Athletes May Skip ‘Really Divisive’ White House Trips to See President Trump…(Turn Them Off!!)
BREITBART.com
10 Nov 2016
When Tim Thomas and Tom Brady skipped visits to Barack Obama’s White House, the sports media jeered. With Donald Trump moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the prospect of champion athletes playing hooky from the obligatory celebration with the president get cheered.
“Now that Donald Trump will be the commander in chief, don’t be surprised when multiple athletes decline the opportunity to visit the White House,” former Indiana Pacer Jalen Rose advised. “He has offended a lot of people. But that’s what happens in politics. It’s not necessarily independent to him, but we can’t sit here and say this has not been one of the most polarizing presidential races for both candidates.”
Though Trump owned the USFL’s New Jersey Generals, hosted the Mike Tyson-Michael Spinks megafight, and put his name on a number of elite golf courses, the president-elect remains unpopular in some sports circles. The reaction to Trump’s victory varied throughout the basketball-shaped basketball world.
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