Trump vs. the Horses: Derby Debate Goes Presidential- Jason Gay
I assume disputed Kentucky Derby winner Country House will not be invited to clip-clop into the White House.
No hoof-shake with the President, second-place horsey loser!
Mr. Trump is among the crowd ticked off that Country Housea 65-to-1 long shot; a schmo, a nuthin, a nobody, reallywas awarded the Derby Saturday after initial winner Maximum Security was disqualified for interfering with other horses.
Welcome to sports in 2019. Just when you think its gone completely weird, wait a minute. Its going to get much weirder. Trump said Maximum Securitys DQ was the result of political correctness. Turns out, in the old days, when men were men, and horses were horses, a Derby leader could blithely fishtail across three competitors, forcing at least one jockey to check up and slow his horse, and nobody moaned to the Trot Police about safety or injuries or any of that namby-pamby stuff. The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby, Trump said via his Twitter bazooka. Not even close.
I do feel bad for Maximum Security. Thats a rough way to lose a horse race, especially for a clearly talented horse. And I feel bad for Country House, whos been deprived a true moment of celebration, and likely, a sprightly piaffe around the Oval Office. No munching on the delicious shrubbery in the Rose Garden, Country House! No sugar cubes
no carrot sticks
no hay with the leader of the free world. No McDonalds, no Burger King, no Dominos, either. Sorry, horsey.
(snip)
If the President thinks Maximum Security was robbed, the Sports Pope thinks the Derby got it right: The owners can whine (not unexpected), the President can chime in (not unexpected), they can threaten legal action. But the fact remains the stewards did the right thing. Maximum Security had to come down, talk radio potentate Mike Francesa tweeted Sunday evening. Its the setting and circumstance that makes this a big deal, not the call itself. (This is not Saints-Rams, where the officials really did blow it.) It is unusuala winner had never been disqualified on race day in the Derbys 145-year history. If you watched the race on Saturday, you saw something that nobodyd seen before. But this is what it means to live in America today. At the rate were going, I think were going to see at least everything once.
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murielm99
(30,730 posts)We already have a horse's ass in there.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)Trump REALLY should not have an opinion on the second-best one being declared the "winner"