Rocket Mouth, the Great Divider

The 45^th President of the United States is obviously, incontrovertibly out of whatever mind he has left because nobody in their right mind fucks with the NFL.

In football-crazed Alabama last week, he called on NFL owners to fire the “son of a bitch” players who knelt in protest of police brutality and NFL fans to boycott the league unti l they do. That’s really insane.

Trump barely owns what little of his chaotic presidency is left, totally ignoring the disaster that is Puerto Rico, while the NFL owns what used to be the most sacred day of the week, Sunday, as was pointed out in the movie “Concussion.”  

Trump also owns his big flapping rocket mouth and is now shooting it off with a reckless promiscuity that belies true madness – or stupidity unequaled in the annals of American presidential history.

NFL president Roger Goddell, never to be mistaken for a liberal, said, “Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game, and all of our players.”

The NFL owners, most of whom are legitimate billionaires, doubtless consider Trump a tinhorn, and do not take lightly to a lightweight like they consider him – president or no – telling them how to run their businesses. Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft, a longtime friend, labeled Trump’s remarks as “deeply disappointing.”

Kraft’s sainted quarterback, Tom Brady, another Trump pal, said, “I strongly disagree with what he said.” Aaron Rodgers, too, sided with the protesting players and ex-Eagle Shady McCoy spoke for many players when he called Trump “an asshole.”

The NFL owners have many and strong political connections and are most likely whispering in many Republican  politicians’ ears that Trump has finally gone too far. Some of these owners kicked in a million bucks to the Trump campaign and they aren’t the kind of people to stand still for what I’m sure they consider a presidential back-stabbing and maybe even some kind of restraint of trade. There has already been a complaint lodged with the Office of Government Ethics. 

Donald Trump, in his deranged, meandering, illiterate rants, ironically illicits almost poetic response from his targets/enemies. Kim Jong Un, whom Trump christened with the less than brilliant “Little Rocket Man,” went him one much better, calling his “mentally deranged behavior “ that of a “dotard,” a very cool ancient term that the dictionary defines as “a state of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise,” a suitably cool definition for that cool term. And spot on, judging by what’s coming out of Trump’s rocket mouth.

He picked a fight with the NBA, too, over Steph Curry’s refusal to go to the White House, and roused LeBron James – once described by Trump as “a great player and a great guy” – to label Trump a “bum” and tell him that “going to the White House was a great honor until you showed up.”

Referencing Charlottesville, LeBron went on that “this guy we’ve put in charge has tried to divide us once again.”

NBA star Chris Paul wondered if Trump is “man enough to call any of those NFL players a son of a bitch to their face”? Surely a rhetorical question in the light of Trump’s legendary physical cowardice.

The mother of Colin Kaepernick, who was the first NFL player to kneel in protest, said, “Guess that makes me a proud bitch” despite the fact that she has been uneasy about her adopted son’s stance.

Kaepernick should tweet Trump a thank you because on Sunday more than 200 NFL players knelt or otherwise protested both Trump and police brutality. Typically, Trump mis-read their linking of arms as a show of patriotism rather than the show of solidarity against his stupid rants that it was. in Monday night, even Dallas Cowboys 
owner Jerry Jones joined the protest and kneeled while linking arms with his players!

Thanks, Rocket Mouth – we needed that.