Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[Patb78]

Au contraire, mon frere, Trump played baseball in HS and has long claimed he could have been a pro player.

Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball?

The president has long claimed he could have gone pro. We looked into it.

slate.com

“… “I was supposed to be a pro baseball player,” Donald Trump wrote in 2004. “At the New York Military Academy, I was captain of the baseball team. I worked hard like everyone else, but I had good talent.”

… “I will never forget […] the first time I saw my name in the newspaper,” he continued. “It was when I got the winning home run in a game between our academy and Cornwall High School. It was in 1964 and it was in a little local paper. It simply said, TRUMP HOMERS TO WIN THE GAME. I just loved it and I will never forget it. It was better than actually hitting the home run.”

…
Trump, who played first base, wrote that “being a pro was in the equation” until he attended a tryout with “another young kid named Willie McCovey.” Apparently, the sight of the future Hall of Famer in action convinced him to give up baseball for good.

In a 2010 interview with MTV, Trump said, again, “I was supposed to be a professional baseball player,” this time adding a flourish: “Fortunately, I decided to go into real estate instead.”

Three years later, Trump inflated his claim on Twitter, pegging himself not just as a pro prospect but the best player in the state.

… To biographer Michael D’Antonio, Trump went further still, arguing in 2015 that he’d been the best athlete in every sport at the New York Military Academy. He added that he’d decided against a baseball career because “in those days you couldn’t even make any money being a great baseball player.” …”

I stand corrected. If only he had followed his baseball dreams he would now be enshrined in HOF.

 

[CFordUNC]

Imagine voting for someone trying to scam you out of 100 grand for fake gold watches.

 

[Rock]

 

[dukeman92]

I’ve heard the watches have small hands and set women back 50 years

 

[UNCRx85]

I cannot be rid of this jackwad quickly enough.

 

[uncjhodges]

Just as an aside, looking at those stupid watches, Trump has the worst fucking autograph i’ve ever seen. Looks like torsades

 

[UNCRx85]

 

[LeoBloom]

(Cont’d)

“… Many grown-ups recall high school glory. Far fewer can cite newspaper articles as proof. Except it seems likely that Trump got his own headline wrong—or made it up entirely. After combing the Evening News and the Cornwall Local, the only local newspapers to regularly cover NYMA sports, and doing an extensive search on Newspapers.com, I’ve been unable to find “TRUMP HOMERS TO WIN THE GAME” in any local paper, nor “TRUMP WINS GAME FOR NYMA,” a headline he’d mention to D’Antonio for his book The Truth About Trump.
Perhaps that’s because in 1964, NYMA didn’t play Cornwall High School, according to the schedule in its yearbook. They didn’t play in 1963, either.

What I have been able to find is box scores from some of Trump’s games, and the picture they paint of the player is not pretty.

As for Willie McCovey, he was eight years older than Trump. When Trump was a senior in high school, McCovey was in his fifth year in the major leagues and already an All-Star. …”

[Per the article, the guy who vouched for Trump’s baseball prowess over the years made a lot of claims prior to his death in 2016 (like that Dobias named Trump unofficial assistant coach his senior year) that seemed unlikely b/c he was the assistant coach, not head coach. Anyway, the reporter found microfiche of local HS baseball coverage from the time.]

“…
Combined, the nine box scores I unearthed give Trump a 4 for 29 batting record in his sophomore, junior, and senior seasons, with three runs batted in and a single run scored. Trump’s batting average in those nine games: an underwhelming .138. (I found one additional mention of a hit and another of a hitless game in games that didn’t have box scores.)

Nine games may seem like a small sample size, but NYMA played only a dozen or so games per baseball season, suggesting that Trump’s entire high school career spanned between 30 and 40 games.

It’s perhaps unfair to draw conclusions from a fraction of those games, but the box scores showed that in his sophomore year, Trump’s .100 batting average in those games was the lowest of any of the five players who had at least eight at-bats. As a junior, he did a tad better, hitting .200, albeit on a team that mustered a mere 11 hits over three games. Trump’s senior year, four teammates had more hits than he did. …”

Trump’s lies are so easily exposed. Willie McCovey? He had to mention a Hall of Famer, of course. And of course it is so easy to show McCovey is a lie.

 

[Kraftyheel89]

Au contraire, mon frere, Trump played baseball in HS and has long claimed he could have been a pro player.

Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball?

The president has long claimed he could have gone pro. We looked into it.

slate.com

“… “I was supposed to be a pro baseball player,” Donald Trump wrote in 2004. “At the New York Military Academy, I was captain of the baseball team. I worked hard like everyone else, but I had good talent.”

… “I will never forget […] the first time I saw my name in the newspaper,” he continued. “It was when I got the winning home run in a game between our academy and Cornwall High School. It was in 1964 and it was in a little local paper. It simply said, TRUMP HOMERS TO WIN THE GAME. I just loved it and I will never forget it. It was better than actually hitting the home run.”

…
Trump, who played first base, wrote that “being a pro was in the equation” until he attended a tryout with “another young kid named Willie McCovey.” Apparently, the sight of the future Hall of Famer in action convinced him to give up baseball for good.

In a 2010 interview with MTV, Trump said, again, “I was supposed to be a professional baseball player,” this time adding a flourish: “Fortunately, I decided to go into real estate instead.”

Three years later, Trump inflated his claim on Twitter, pegging himself not just as a pro prospect but the best player in the state.

… To biographer Michael D’Antonio, Trump went further still, arguing in 2015 that he’d been the best athlete in every sport at the New York Military Academy. He added that he’d decided against a baseball career because “in those days you couldn’t even make any money being a great baseball player.” …”

What a strong, strong man. Fighting off bone spurs to be the greatest ball player at his age in NY.

 

[lawtig02]

Ho. Lee. Cow. Even if you don’t want us to be spending more on Ukraine, you just cannot say that. There’s literally nothing that could redeem this guy for anyone who values freedom and self-determination.

 

[nycfan]

 

[ZenMode]

Trump hawks $100,000 watches as he leverages his candidacy for profit

I'm sure all 3 of his supports, who an afford the watch, are very appreciative.

 

[nycfan]

When my son was a toddler, he sometimes declared he had “uh-oh hair” (static hair or hat head).

Trump seems to have uh-oh hair during his presser with Zelensky today.

 

[Calheel]

Maybe Twitter should ban Musk.

 

[Rock]

I'm out after the election. Can't support it any longer.

 

[nycfan]

Trump has been posting this over and over for months — his security blanket, the chart he turned to look at that he believes saved him from the first assassin’s bullet.

 

[BlueSteel]

And he calls Kamala Harris "Comrade"? What in the actual fuck?

 

[superrific]

And he calls Kamala Harris "Comrade"? What in the actual fuck?

I'd love to see one more second of that clip. Zelensky looked like he was about to give Trump a serious WTF face.

We have to remember what "it takes two to tango" means. Trump is still holding a grudge about his so-called perfect phone call that led to his impeachment. He's basically telling Ukraine that they have to pay tribute to the godfather.

 

[superrific]

What a strong, strong man. Fighting off bone spurs to be the greatest ball player at his age in NY.

There are lies, dirty lies, and then there's this:

"He caught my eye right away because he was so aggressive and so coachable,” Dobias, the freshman baseball coach, told Gwenda Blair in The Trumps. “Lots of kids you can talk to until you’re blue in the face and nothing happens, but Donald would react to instructions. If you told him he wasn’t throwing the baseball correctly, he’d do it right the next time.”

At no point in Trump's life was he coachable, as the remainder of the story clearly illustrates.

 

[gregh1]

I'm out after the election. Can't support it any longer.

I might too. Somehow i got signed out from my phone/app and just didn't bother for a few months to test whether I knew my password or not. It was pretty easy and kinda nice. I'm back in though, for better or worse.