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No NCAA Bracket for Trump
http://legalinsurrection.com ^ | 002/17/2017 | Kemberley Kaye

Posted on 02/17/2017 2:53:10 PM PST by heterosupremacist

The network reached out to Trump’s 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 didn’t 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 men’s and women’s tournaments. Two of those brackets are now property of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; bracket; bracketology; espn; ncaa; sports; trump45
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1 posted on 02/17/2017 2:53:10 PM PST by heterosupremacist
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To: heterosupremacist

I didn’t hire him to talk or watch sports. I hired him to Make America Great Again.


2 posted on 02/17/2017 2:54:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: heterosupremacist

Obama was SUCH a better president!!!

(Do I really need a /sarc???)


3 posted on 02/17/2017 2:54:56 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: heterosupremacist

Oh wow, let me mark those bracket exhibits on “must-see” list for my next Smithsonian Trip.....


4 posted on 02/17/2017 3:05:11 PM PST by 4Liberty (DEMOCRATS- Exporting Jobs, Importing Votes.)
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To: jdsteel

The funniest part was watching Obama being fooled into thinking anyone really cared what he thought about sports.


5 posted on 02/17/2017 3:05:13 PM PST by relictele (`)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


6 posted on 02/17/2017 3:08:05 PM PST by V K Lee (President Trump = MAGA (erasing the era of the Socialist Muslim minor))
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To: jdsteel

I’m sure Trump can spell SYRACUSE’ unlike an idiot president from kenya..


7 posted on 02/17/2017 3:14:51 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: heterosupremacist

Trump, go visit a Nascar event instead. You’ll get a standing ovation like never before!


8 posted on 02/17/2017 3:15:36 PM PST by Professional
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Neither the White House nor ESPN had any details on what other opportunities might lie down the road.

ESPN Live Coverage of Swamp Buggy Racing in DC. It's a one-way race out of the swamp.

9 posted on 02/17/2017 3:25:03 PM PST by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: heterosupremacist

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.


10 posted on 02/17/2017 3:32:35 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ditto!


11 posted on 02/17/2017 3:38:57 PM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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To: max americana

Obamao, with the help of some college libtards, even spelled “Ohio” incorrectly.


12 posted on 02/17/2017 3:41:36 PM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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To: heterosupremacist

Why should Trump give any consideration to ESPN and their leftist globalist parent corporation?


13 posted on 02/17/2017 3:44:33 PM PST by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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#2 “I didn’t 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...


14 posted on 02/17/2017 3:59:44 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: relictele

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 ; )


15 posted on 02/17/2017 4:00:08 PM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: heterosupremacist

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.


16 posted on 02/17/2017 4:07:41 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: originalbuckeye

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.


17 posted on 02/17/2017 4:21:06 PM PST by relictele (`)
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To: heterosupremacist

Dope smoking kids do that not adult presidents.


18 posted on 02/17/2017 4:22:49 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: max americana
Haaaaavaaaard educated Odumbo. Maybe he should ask for a refund on his education.

Odumbo Syracuse photo odumbo syracuse_zpspzdvggev.jpg

19 posted on 02/17/2017 5:00:46 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: heterosupremacist

Or maybe President Trump wants to keep his brackets PRIVATE.


20 posted on 02/18/2017 3:08:15 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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