'Two very interesting teams': Donald Trump doesn't know who's playing in the Super Bowl

[babylonsister]

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'Two very interesting teams': Donald Trump doesn't know who's playing in the Super Bowl
Laura Clawson
Daily Kos Staff
Friday January 31, 2020 · 10:05 AM EST


Donald Trump, relatable man of the people, beloved of diner customers throughout The Heartland, does not know who is playing in the Super Bowl. And despite his vast experience in pretending he’s an expert on things he knows nothing about, he can’t even hide it.

Asked about his preference in the game, Trump said, “Well, I love them both, let's just say. But I will tell you, some two very interesting teams and interesting players, some really great players. And it's going to be hopefully a great Super Bowl.”

No, this doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Senate Republicans are letting the man off the hook for trying to obtain foreign interference to win an election. His administration is taking food assistance away from people who need it to survive, relaxing restrictions on the use of landmines, accelerating climate change, and so much more. He personally is emboldening white supremacists and rapists everywhere. He embraces authoritarian leaders around the globe.

So his ignorance about who’s in the Super Bowl and his clumsy attempt to hide it is barely even a footnote on the hour in which it became obvious. But it’s also another potent reminder that truly we live in the stupidest time, that this level of ignorance not just about policy but about the basics of U.S. culture can somehow be set aside in the portrayal of Trump as someone whose appeal comes from anything but the vicious bigoted impulses he stokes. No one really thinks he’s likable or just like them or that he knows what their lives are like. His supporters are fervently in love with him, and there’s no possible explanation but the racism and nationalism and misogyny and bullying and, possibly, to a small extent, envy over his crass deployment of the wealth he pretends he didn’t just inherit. That is what it is, and what it is is sickening, but what’s truly gross is the media’s willingness to pretend that his appeal is anything else.

[dalton99a]

1. Trump hates the NFL

"I'm going to give [buying the Bills] a heavy shot," Trump told Tim Graham of the Buffalo News in April 2014. "I would love to do it, and if I can do it I'm keeping it in Buffalo."

A little more than a year later, Trump was again left looking at the NFL from the outside.

"I bid a billion dollars, all cash on the table," Trump told Sports Illustrated in September 2015. "He [owner Terry Pegula] bought it for a billion-two, I believe, although they say it was a billion-four. I think he got it for a billion‑two."

An NFL source familiar with Trump's bid said he didn't get the team because there was serious doubt among other owners if Trump had the money to purchase the Bills.

The belief is that Trump has held a grudge ever since.

[mr_lebowski]

5. "All cash on the table"

YEAH ... RIGHT!

[yonder]

19. I'm laughing right there with you.

billion bucks for Buffalo my butt. On the table?

Not a chance.

[leftieNanner]

36. Maybe Monopoly money

[CaptYossarian]

15. Except billionaire and fellow sexual deviant Robert Kraft

Ask the orange goon if he truly loves the team from Pelosi's district.

[OMGWTF]

30. Insert Drum Sting Here

[Marcuse]

17. The oranges of the hatred for the NFL and the ruin of the USFL.

[link:https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-crusade-nfl-usfl-history-repeating-165618037.html

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In 1983, Trump instead settled for buying a USFL team, the New Jersey Generals. As Pearlman reports in one of the most fascinating insider anecdotes of his book, after committing to buy the USFL team Trump arranged a private meeting with then-NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle. He made clear to Rozelle that the USFL did not matter to him and that what he really wanted was an NFL team. According to a colleague of the USFL marketing man who was in the room for the meeting, Rozelle told Trump at the end of the meeting, “As long as I or my heirs are involved in the NFL, you will never be a franchise owner in the league.”

[yonder]

21. Ouch. The mark that left is still festering away.

[NBachers]

2. What a Nimrod

[Harker]

3. Time to replay his comments on Colin Kaepernick.

[mr_lebowski]

4. I'll rip off one of the comments ...

Isn't it the US Patriots vs the GOP Senators?

[renate]

7. This is wonderful!

[sprinkleeninow]

39. The US Patriots 👍 v. the GOP Complicits 👎 end-of-message

[sprinkleeninow]

40. 👍

[Grasswire2]

6. Just like when they asked him his favorite Bible verse.

He vamped.

Couldn't even say whether he liked the New or Old Testament better.

[OMGWTF]

31. Two Corinthians walk into a bar ...

[leftieNanner]

38. L..O..L

Who knows. Those 2 Corinthians might show up at church tomorrow morning.

[moondust]

8. Of course not.

The dumbass who spends his every waking moment telling himself how great he is knows the Super Bowl, like everything else, is all about him.

[lame54]

9. He only cares about the the post game hamberders...

He loves when the players refuse to go to the Whitehouse

More hamberders for him

[Retrograde]

10. I don't know either

but that's because I don't care.

[lunatica]

18. Well see, that's an honest answer.

And a factual one. As opposed to an alternative factual one like his answer.

[Ms. Toad]

20. Ditto.

[tavernier]

51. Ha! Let's all get together and go see a movie.

Anything but the snoozer bowl.

[The Genealogist]

60. I wish I could say the same

However, I live in Missouri, and about all anyone around me seems to care about is the Kansas City Chiefs playing in the Super Bowl. Even one of the hospitals has changed their exterior lights to red, and is dressing up newborns in some kind of KC Chiefs outfits.

[efhmc]

11. I know one of them because my gson had their emblem put on his BD cake and that

was even before the team were set to go.

[Yavin4]

12. If a female or liberal candidate couldn't answer this question, the media would roast them

Absolutely roast them.

[AllyCat]

13. Neither do I.

Doesn’t make me unamerican or not patriotic. Lots of stuff to criticize him for. This ain’t it.

[lunatica]

23. The criticism is about his lying and dissembling.

Something you aren’t doing. He’s pretending he knows, using well worn wording that he’s been using for years to cover up his vast ignorance. Like when he said Frederick Douglas was doing good things.

[sprinkleeninow]

37. It gets 'called' when an utterance of his is FoS which is 100% of the time.

And rightly so.

[AllyCat]

47. Comprende

Thank you for the succinct description.

[lunatica]

48. I'm also not interested in sports

You’re welcome.

[KelleyKramer]

49. And don't forget, we have to protect Thomas Edison

And it was an American who invented the wheel

[lunatica]

50. Trump's interest are eclectic and widespread as are is his

Yuuuge generosity and interests.

[Grammy23]

14. I told my husband that tRump was smooth glossing over the fact the he did not know

Which teams are playing in tomorrow’s Super Bowl. He quickly retorted, “yea, smooth as a corn cob over hemorrhoids.”

Ouch...

[lastlib]

62. "If ya can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullsh*t...." eom

[IronLionZion]

16. I have no idea who's playing

but know that Sunday evening is a great time to go out to a trendy restaurant or non-sports bar or something because there will be shorter lines.

[Marcuse]

24. Who?

[sprinkleeninow]

34. Whoo dat say whoo dat when I say whoo dat? 😆

[lastlib]

42. (Saints ain't playin'............)

me

[sprinkleeninow]

46. I knew that would get a response.

[sprinkleeninow]

35. I want one! 🦉💗 eom

[paleotn]

44. Cute from a distance...

but the business ends WILL light you up. I once came across an injured cooper's hawk as a teenager and can attest that those talons are killers! TWRA came and took it to a rehab sanctuary. Don't have a clue what eventually happened to it, but it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I've loved raptors ever since.

[sprinkleeninow]

55. I know. cute lil rascules. But they deceive. 😆

We saved one from our roadway one of our homes was on. We stayed with him/her till a rescue. It was dark out and we almost hit him/her. It stayed put and we stayed with the owl till help came. Still and all--cute!

[Pepsidog]

22. Once again you nailed it Babylonsister.

[rurallib]

26. Bet if Moscow had a team in there he'd know who was playing.

[Initech]

27. Shhhhhh!!! Nobody tell him that San Francisco is one of the teams!

[Botany]

28. Well he didn't know what happens to cows

2 interesting teams.

[CentralMass]

29. Super bowl ? He thinks that you have to flush it 10 or 15 times.

[OMGWTF]

32. L to the O to the L!

[lastlib]

43. Nah, that's the Toilet Bowl.

He LIKES to play in that one.......he deeply cherishes his Toilet Bowl ring......

[MerryBlooms]

53. .

[sprinkleeninow]

33. Almost seems as if 'the level of ignorance' IS policy. 🤔 n/t

[Hekate]

41. It's the dementia kicking in; he's confabulating. My late MIL used to do that...

"Sure, I'm keeping up. Sure I'm following the conversation." She was a nice person, though, unlike the Mad King.

[blueinredohio]

56. I'm not sticking up for Trump, I dislike him as much as everyone else but

I think it's a shame how all the russiapublicans are using a senile old man to get what they want. He will do anything to get people to like him. My father was senile so I know a little bit about it. If his kids loved him they wouldn't want him to make a fool of himself. But they're just like the russiapublicans, in it for what they can get.

[Hekate]

59. In a normal family, the Trump spawn would have talked him out of running in the first place...

...out of respect for his declining faculties and his dignity as a man. But they are not a normal family, and I think love and self-sacrifice are alien concepts to them all. It's all transactional -- everything in their lives.

Even in this decayed condition, however one defines it (and many DUers with very aged parents can spot symptoms a mile away, as can medical professionals), Trump remains extremely useful to an awful lot of people in this country and around the world who want money and power and who would rejoice at the destruction of our democracy.

We've seen this with a few other wealthy families, but never with such disastrous consequences for the nation.

[COLGATE4]

45. Someone much smarter than I said it best:

Regarding his appeal to the 40%, the reason for his appeal is because "He pisses off the people they want to piss off".

[OAITW r.2.0]

52. What, really, does he know anything about?

He is like a reptilian actor, reacting to the stimulus in his environment. Outside the rallies, he is a deeply emotionally-damaged human being.

[Different Drummer]

54. Very little, if anything.

DD

[X_Digger]

57. Shit- I don't know, or care, who's playing. n/t

[SamKnause]

58. I have no idea who is playing in the Super Bowl.

I don't care, so why would I bother to find out.

If you are un-American because you don't know or care about the Super Bowl,

then so be it, I guess I am un-American.

I do know who is performing during half time because that does interest me.

[JHB]

61. As with many things with Trump, by itself there would be no particular shame. But...

...like his weight or his hair, the desperate denial, the self-perception of failure and weakness if he simply acknowledged what he's telegraphing, is a signal-flare of utter patheticness.

[jmowreader]

63. Dear Donald...

Just so you know, the two teams who will be taking the field tomorrow are the Cincinnati Bengals and the Detroit Lions.

We have it on good authority that if the Bengals win, they would enjoy Whoppers from Burger King.

We are also aware that if the Lions win, they prefer Quarter Pounders from the McDonald’s in Union Station.

- - - - -

For the sports-impaired among us, the only way the Lions are going to make it to the Super Bowl is if the earth opened up and swallowed every other team in their conference. As for the Bengals, I don’t think even that would work.

[NCLefty]

64. "All I know is Both Sides love Trump."

Zzz...