Posted on 02/17/2017 2:53:10 PM PST by heterosupremacist
The network reached out to Trumps staff and invited the president to fill out a bracket on-camera, just as President Barack Obama had the past several years. The network recently received word that Trump has passed. An ESPN spokesman said in a statement: We expressed our interest to the White House in continuing the presidential bracket. They have respectfully declined.
White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in an email to The Washington Post: We look forward to working with ESPN on another opportunity in the near future. Neither the White House nor ESPN had any details on what other opportunities might lie down the road.
The news didnt exactly come as a surprise to ESPN executives. They knew with a change of president, the annual feature might not continue. Obama hosted an ESPN crew each March and filled out brackets for both the mens and womens tournaments. Two of those brackets are now property of the Smithsonians National Museum of American History.
I didn’t hire him to talk or watch sports. I hired him to Make America Great Again.
Obama was SUCH a better president!!!
(Do I really need a /sarc???)
Oh wow, let me mark those bracket exhibits on “must-see” list for my next Smithsonian Trip.....
The funniest part was watching Obama being fooled into thinking anyone really cared what he thought about sports.
Unlike those before him, his nose is to the grindstone, not smudged on a plate glass window, on the outside looking in.
BO’B... “Laughing on the outside, crying on the inside”. Never made it to his peak, but he did manage to stuff the green in his pockets.
I’m sure Trump can spell SYRACUSE’ unlike an idiot president from kenya..
Trump, go visit a Nascar event instead. You’ll get a standing ovation like never before!
ESPN Live Coverage of Swamp Buggy Racing in DC. It's a one-way race out of the swamp.
It was a joke. 67 games to pick, either you would shortchange the bracket by guessing or just picking the higher seeds and bigger names, or you would shortchange the job of being president.
Ditto!
Obamao, with the help of some college libtards, even spelled “Ohio” incorrectly.
Why should Trump give any consideration to ESPN and their leftist globalist parent corporation?
#2 “I didnt hire him to talk or watch sports. I hired him to Make America Great Again.”
You may have misunderstood my intent for posting that... I was making the point that barry was NEVER Presidential, although Donald is VERY Presidential, (more so every passing day) and would not consider lowering the status of the Office he serves to appear on ESPN or whatever.
See the contrast? Barry was so dumb, and so self-absorbed, he thought the POTUS should sit around and watch B-Ball as the world burns!
Trump v Obama (no blood, no foul, no Ref)one on one, ten point game = Trump Ten/ Obama Zero...
My favorite interview was with a sports guy who asked Obama who was his favorite Chicago White Sox player. You know, Obama lived on the south side of Chicago and supposedly went to ‘Cominsky Park’ a lot. He then pivoted to the Cubs, but couldn’t name a Cubby player either. Then Obama pointed out that he actually grew up in Hawaii, so his closest baseball team was the Oakland A’s. Yep, you guessed it, he couldn’t name anyone who had played for the A’s either. My second favorite Obama sports moment was learning that it took 20 tries for him to make the basket that was shown on TV for some basketball story. He used to pretend that he would work out with NBA players, but never defined what ‘work out’ really meant ; )
If PRESIDENT Trump even thought about taking time to engage in this silliness, the fascist “democracy” media would be throwing tantrums all over the place.
He was and is an overgrown student council geek who thought speechifying and resolution-passing substituted for governance.
He is, for all practical purposes, a Pacific Islander with two left feet, which makes the black magazine ‘one of us’ covers even more hilarious.
Dope smoking kids do that not adult presidents.
Or maybe President Trump wants to keep his brackets PRIVATE.
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