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hlthe2b

(113,196 posts)
3. Didn't Trump say something to the effect that the team would appreciate fast food over "fancy"
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:24 PM
Jan 2019

I am reading a lot into that statement--nothing pleasant as he prepared to meet the premiere athletes (including many black athletes) of a Southern University who have just won the national championship.

I'm not a Clemson fan... Still, I'm appalled that they were treated in this manner and wish to hell they'd not gone. I'm sure there were fans or wealthy alumns who would have treated them to the celebration they deserved.

redstatebluegirl

(12,783 posts)
6. Dabo Sweeny knows his crowd. They will cheer for a Black man and then swear at him as a
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:37 PM
Jan 2019

criminal the next. They had to go to the White House or Dabo would be in their cross hairs.

murielm99

(32,820 posts)
4. I used to work out in a gym where
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:33 PM
Jan 2019

there were many young men who were athletes and former athletes. Some were military and former military. They were all young guys and their twenties and thirties. Every last one of them discussed diet and compared diets. Some of them went to dietitians. AFAIK, they all shunned fast food.

akraven

(1,975 posts)
8. Love your snarky thread title because I lost $5 to spouse on the game!
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 04:58 PM
Jan 2019

Daughter is a Bama alumnus, what was I supposed to do?

I have NEVER seen a tackier, sleazier, more stupid thing for a human to do, let alone a presumed (cheated his way in) Resident of OUR White House.

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