Trump Disinvites Golden State Warriors from WH Visit

[Badger]

The Nothing But Assholes league doesn't belong there anyway.

Who in the hell do you think you are? You support the greatest jerk in the world and you have the nerve to call other people assholes because they don't support YOUR President? You need to accept that not everyone is going to like Trump (most of the country doesn't seem to) and get over it.

No I truly hate everything about the NBA. Always have.

First and foremost being they've never looked twice at the Burg for a franchise?

[Badger]

Lest we forget, President Obama readily continued and follow through the invite of Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins despite the fact their goalie and de facto captain ( notwithstanding Chara) who is a first-rate tea partier, not to mention a first-rate a******, publicly refused the invitation because of socialism, Etc.

Trump of course does not have 1/10 of the class for patience for people who dare criticize him.

[JA]

They're people who put a ball through a hoop for a living, not world leaders. Trump doesn't need to win them over.

Agree. Warriors. San Francisco. What a cesspool.

looks like Trump's attacks are working on his low IQ base

We proved to be a lot more successful than the "high IQ" base of Madame President

You guys still talking about Hillary and the election? Kaepernick is a son of a bitch, Arpaio is a great man, worthy of pardon, and Putin is a good guy while America is not so innocent. Nobody hates America more than Trump

When you go on and on like a troll talking about Trump's "low IQ" base, it makes you wonder about our "high IQ" opposition.

If you continue to support a guy who is hell bent on dividing the country for his own gratification then you are a low IQ idiot. Trump is so obvious about the fact he doesn't care about anyone but himself, whether through his health care bill, or the fact he called his earliest and most loyal supporter Jeff Sessions an idiot for rescuing himself (which he was legally required to do). Trump doesn't care about his supporters or the Republican party...all he cares about is himself and enriching himself through the executive. Trump supporters are like those gullible people who get scammed by late night infomercials selling pyramid schemes...anyone one who continues to fall for such an obvious con, who also btw literally has a 40 year history of conning people, is an idiot.

Woah! I have been educated and enlightened!

It's always the same shtick with you Trump supporters....you troll to cope. Trump doesn't have to accomplish anything to keep getting your support other than to heap on the daily red meat. No president has had a worse record of legislative accomplishments yet you guys will keep giving him a pass. All Republicans needed to turn out against Obama is the perception of him being lazy (Fox news running clips of him golfing in2010) because that plays into their lazy black man meme. Meanwhile, Trump is literally the laziest and most corrupt president and you guys will forever let him get away with it while holding every other politician to a different standard

Being called a troll by Mondale LOLOLOLOL

Keep coping. Trump won't make you rich or get you out of the trailer park

How's classism any better than racism or sexism?

[JA]

They're people who put a ball through a hoop for a living, not world leaders. Trump doesn't need to win them over.

Agree. Warriors. San Francisco. What a cesspool.

Your state's main industries are dying and has a severe opioid crisis and we're the cesspool?

Neither is a cesspool, first off. Second, why're you going to denigrate a place and its people for the actions of the industries that have exploited then abandoned them?

[JA]

They're people who put a ball through a hoop for a living, not world leaders. Trump doesn't need to win them over.

Agree. Warriors. San Francisco. What a cesspool.

looks like Trump's attacks are working on his low IQ base

We proved to be a lot more successful than the "high IQ" base of Madame President

You guys still talking about Hillary and the election? Kaepernick is a son of a bitch, Arpaio is a great man, worthy of pardon, and Putin is a good guy while America is not so innocent. Nobody hates America more than Trump

When you go on and on like a troll talking about Trump's "low IQ" base, it makes you wonder about our "high IQ" opposition.

If you continue to support a guy who is hell bent on dividing the country for his own gratification then you are a low IQ idiot. Trump is so obvious about the fact he doesn't care about anyone but himself, whether through his health care bill, or the fact he called his earliest and most loyal supporter Jeff Sessions an idiot for rescuing himself (which he was legally required to do). Trump doesn't care about his supporters or the Republican party...all he cares about is himself and enriching himself through the executive. Trump supporters are like those gullible people who get scammed by late night infomercials selling pyramid schemes...anyone one who continues to fall for such an obvious con, who also btw literally has a 40 year history of conning people, is an idiot.

Woah! I have been educated and enlightened!

I don't think that's even possible, Alabama.

Anyways, there's nothing wrong with making a career out of sports, entertainment, or anything else. I certainly don't agree they're deserving of the salaries they receive, but that's the product of the market you guys adore. Their status in our society is a product of the consumer culture and its capitalist underpinnings. What's the point of degrading them on account of their career choice? Do you espouse equal revulsion towards people like Mitt Romney who built his wealth producing nothing, but engaging in venture capital, and inheritance, yet was your party's nominee? Or the countless other elite members of society whose careers were in the financial industry (among others)? At least basketball players can be inspirational figures (for better or worse) and the industry (despite its flaws) serves as a means to upward mobility for many underprivileged people. That's better than what can be said for the ways in which Trump and most other millionaires made (ahem, inherited) their wealth.

What would these athlete's salaries be in muh socialist system?

Ideally, wages wouldn't exist. The market that determines those wages wouldn't exist, so it'd be determined by other mechanisms during the transition period.

[Santander]

Ideally, wages wouldn't exist. The market that determines those wages wouldn't exist, so it'd be determined by other mechanisms during the transition period.

The New Dealer to Communist thing has already been done by TNF.

[Adam Griffin]

"You can't quit, I'm firing you!"

[Cactus Jack]

What a snowflake.

[Yank2133]

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Since they are going to go to DC anyway, it would be a good slap in the Fuhrer's face if Senate and House members invited the team to The Capitol, instead.

They should go visit Obama. He still has an office in DC right?

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

Trump's not wrong for rescinding the invitation, and Steph Curry, whom I normally think highly of, was wrong in his response.  As are the rest of the Warriors. If I were President and someone responded to me as Curry did, I wouldn't

This was a chance for an audience with the man who, like it or not, is President.  Trump listens to all sorts of people privately, and is far from fixed in his thinking.  In private with Trump, Curry (probably the most articulate Warrior) and others could discuss their concerns privately, without the public posturing and trash talk.  Instead, Curry publicly brushes off Trump.  If Curry has any people skills, he should have known that this wouldn't be received favorably, and he shouldn't have been surprised.

That being said, if I were President, I would have rescinded the invitation quietly, with minimal publicity and without giving a reason.  Trump's biggest failing as President is that he doesn't know when to stop being combative.  He's not wrong here, and he's not wrong on most things, IMO, but he's a case of the problem being not what he says, but how he says it.  I don't blame Trump entirely for the situation, but he is, after all, the President.  It's incumbent on the President to be the "bigger man" in situations like this. 

And he never should have announced this at one of his rallies.  Trump's not wrong about law and order IMO, but the issues of racial disparities in criminal justice are real and shouldn't just be blown off.  If BLM is full of crap (and I believe they are on a number of issues, but not all), Trump ought to be willing to make the case for this in a reasoned manner and build consensus on this.  He made a deal with Pelosi and Schumer on the debt ceiling; why can't he at least come up with a more constructive dialogue on the issues Curry and these athletes are raising?

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It's percolating beyond the NBA!

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It's percolating beyond the NBA!

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Shameful. I wouldn't give alma mater another dime for a such a stunt. Then again, UNC athletes are virtually a separate entity from their school with their FAKE CLASSES so nobody respects them to begin with.

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Shameful. I wouldn't give alma mater another dime for a such a stunt. Then again, UNC athletes are virtually a separate entity from their school with their FAKE CLASSES so nobody respects them to begin with.

Damn your knuckles are white from clutching those pearls

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Trump does publicly attack black people while he's silent when white people do the same things.

This, and anyone who thinks otherwise have their heads up their ass.

[DrScholl]

Trump supporters do not get that many people do not want to be associated with someone like Trump. He's angry, hateful and mean, which are all things most people choose to avoid. We aren't talking about a normal President, we are talking about Trump.

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

Trump supporters do not get that many people do not want to be associated with someone like Trump. He's angry, hateful and mean, which are all things most people choose to avoid. We aren't talking about a normal President, we are talking about Trump.

Many professional athletes are angry, hateful and mean.

That being said, I do expect more of our President.

[pbrower2a]

They're people who put a ball through a hoop for a living, not world leaders. Trump doesn't need to win them over.

Agree. Warriors. San Francisco. What a cesspool.

Have you ever been to San Francisco? People who have spent appreciable time there would disagree with you. From what I hear, I would not like Las Vegas.

Ohio has plenty of economic and cultural cesspools, thank you. Don't blame that assessment of me on the "Michigan" avatar; I can tell you about cesspools in Michigan, too. No, I do not mean Ann Arbor, but I can tell you about some places fairly close to Ann Arbor. City names begin with D, F, and P. No, I do not mean "Dearborn".   

[Middle-aged Europe]

This is how John Kelly must look like right now:

[Inmate Trump]

Why is our president taking time out of his day to tweet nonsense about whether or not a sports team is invited to visit him?

North Korea.  Iran.  Healthcare.  Jobs.  ISIS.  Russian election interference.

Pick one.  Tweet about that.  Don't waste our time (and yours, which should be valuable) by being an absolute child about the most insignificant topic you could be dealing with right now.

You are 71 years old.  Stop acting less mature than a 5 year old.

And to all of his cult worshippers who voted for this trainwreck, even if you regret it now, you are completely responsible for a president who gets more up in arms over sports players not doing what he wants them to do than he does about the sanctity of our republic.  You are all just as despicable as he is (again, even if you regret your vote now...because it's not like you didn't know what he was like when you cast it).

[Badger]

Why is our president taking time out of his day to tweet nonsense about whether or not a sports team is invited to visit him?

North Korea.  Iran.  Healthcare.  Jobs.  ISIS.  Russian election interference.

Pick one.  Tweet about that.  Don't waste our time (and yours, which should be valuable) by being an absolute child about the most insignificant topic you could be dealing with right now.

You are 71 years old.  Stop acting less mature than a 5 year old.

And to all of his cult worshippers who voted for this trainwreck, even if you regret it now, you are completely responsible for a president who gets more up in arms over sports players not doing what he wants them to do than he does about the sanctity of our republic.  You are all just as despicable as he is (again, even if you regret your vote now...because it's not like you didn't know what he was like when you cast it).

This x 10.

@ fuzzy bear, although you say Trump was right in canceling the Warriors in my based on the Steph Curry's comments, consider my previous post about how Obama readily can't open the invitation for the Stanley cup-winning Boston Bruins despite team Starr goalie Tim Thomas refusing the invite because Obama was a socialist for trying to provide universal healthcare, it cetera. Thoughts?

Trump just doesn't have the maturity or ability to accept people ever ever ever thinking ill of him to be president

[Silent Hunter]

That being said, I do expect more of our President.

Sadly, you're not going to get it from this one.

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

Lest we forget, President Obama readily continued and follow through the invite of Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins despite the fact their goalie and de facto captain ( notwithstanding Chara) who is a first-rate tea partier, not to mention a first-rate a******, publicly refused the invitation because of socialism, Etc.

Trump of course does not have 1/10 of the class for patience for people who dare criticize him.

The Bruins' goalie, Tim Thomas, was wrong for this.  Obama was our President at the time, and an invitation to the White House is an honor.  Acknowledging a Presidential invitation as an honor is not, and has never been (at least until recently) an act viewed as co-signing policies one disagrees with. 

This, however, was one player.  The Warriors have numerous players on board with this.  And numerous players are putting pressure on others to boycott Trump; Thomas, in error that he was, acted on his own and wasn't trying to be part of some sort of movement. 

Obama had class.  Trump only knows one mode:  Combative.  I'm waiting for him to grow in office, but he always regresses right when I think growth is happening.  And, yes, this is getting to be an issue with me.

[Badger]

Lest we forget, President Obama readily continued and follow through the invite of Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins despite the fact their goalie and de facto captain ( notwithstanding Chara) who is a first-rate tea partier, not to mention a first-rate a******, publicly refused the invitation because of socialism, Etc.

Trump of course does not have 1/10 of the class for patience for people who dare criticize him.

The Bruins' goalie, Tim Thomas, was wrong for this.  Obama was our President at the time, and an invitation to the White House is an honor.  Acknowledging a Presidential invitation as an honor is not, and has never been (at least until recently) an act viewed as co-signing policies one disagrees with. 

This, however, was one player.  The Warriors have numerous players on board with this.  And numerous players are putting pressure on others to boycott Trump; Thomas, in error that he was, acted on his own and wasn't trying to be part of some sort of movement. 

Obama had class.  Trump only knows one mode:  Combative.  I'm waiting for him to grow in office, but he always regresses right when I think growth is happening.  And, yes, this is getting to be an issue with me.

Fair enough.

And for what it's worth, I think that Tim Thomas was wrong. I also would have thought that Steph Curry was wrong if you got it Trump. But here it's a case of trump was the one who cancelled the whole event. Such a Man baby

[ProudModerate2]

.... Obama had class.  Trump only knows one mode:  Combative.  I'm waiting for him to grow in office, but he always regresses right when I think growth is happening. And, yes, this is getting to be an issue with me.

LOL.
He is 71 years old !
He isn't going to "grow" or change.
Are you kidding yourself ?

[AtorBoltox]

Lest we forget, President Obama readily continued and follow through the invite of Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins despite the fact their goalie and de facto captain ( notwithstanding Chara) who is a first-rate tea partier, not to mention a first-rate a******, publicly refused the invitation because of socialism, Etc.

Trump of course does not have 1/10 of the class for patience for people who dare criticize him.

The Bruins' goalie, Tim Thomas, was wrong for this.  Obama was our President at the time, and an invitation to the White House is an honor.  Acknowledging a Presidential invitation as an honor is not, and has never been (at least until recently) an act viewed as co-signing policies one disagrees with. 

This, however, was one player.  The Warriors have numerous players on board with this.  And numerous players are putting pressure on others to boycott Trump; Thomas, in error that he was, acted on his own and wasn't trying to be part of some sort of movement. 

Obama had class.  Trump only knows one mode:  Combative.  I'm waiting for him to grow in office, but he always regresses right when I think growth is happening.  And, yes, this is getting to be an issue with me.

Seriously, it's taken you till now to realise that Trump is incapable of change?