Trump escalates war of words with “Poor Man’s Don King” LaVar Ball

https://www.google.com/amp/deadline.com/2017/11/trump-blasts-lavar-ball-as-poor-mans-don-king-1202213688/amp/ ^ | 11/22/2017 | Peter White

[sam_whiskey]

The feud between President Donald Trump and basketball dad LaVar Ball escalated after the Commander in Chief called Ball “a poor man’s Don King” and an “ungrateful fool” The Wednesday morning tweet comes after the pair continue to argue about Trump’s role in securing the release of Ball’s son from a Chinese jail after he was held for shoplifting Louis Vitton sunglasses.

[barbarianbabs]

distracting the silly press

[simpson96]

LaVar doesn’t understand...when you try to heckle the guy with the microphone, the guy with the microphone always wins.

[mazda77]

It is wonderful that some here are starting to pick up on the intent.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Ungrateful fool” is exactly right.

Trump always wins these twitter kerfuffles because what he says is just correct, and people see that it is correct. The media pretends to be outraged, but everyone recognizes that the media is just uncomfortable with the concept of Truth.

[FlipWilson]

Poor man’s Don King!!! Trump should drop the mic after that and just move on. I don’t see how he tops it.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Thanks sam_whiskey.

[Yardstick]

Yep, that’s pretty much it. That’s why his nicknames work too.

[polymuser]

SQUIRREL!

[1Old Pro]

Trump always wins these twitter kerfuffles because what he says is just correct, and people see that it is correct. The media pretends to be outraged, but everyone recognizes that the media is just uncomfortable with the concept of Truth.

Bingo

[gaijin]

LaVar is helping Trump, though unintentional lying.

This is something flashy and Blinky that the media will understand and love, meanwhile Trump can continue doing things of substance behind the scenes.

[gaijin]

Unintentionally.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

LaVar Ball gets enormous amounts of free publicity and name recognition out of this and grows his "Big Baller Brand" of athletic shoes - no advertising agency in the world could give him this much exposure in the national and international media, and even trying would cost him millions. He's getting this all for free, and his net profit from Trump's attention is going to be huge. If Ball wasn't grateful to Trump for getting his son out of jail in China, he should be eternally grateful for the enormous service Trump is doing him by paying attention to him. The Kardashians must be tearing their hair out with envy at this point.

It's hard to see what Trump gets out of this - there are far more worthy targets for the attention of the POTUS.

[FreedomPoster]

If you haven’t read Scott Adams’ take on why Trump’s approach works, you really should. If you go back in his blog to Summer of 2016 and then move forward, you’ll get the gist pretty quickly. Though he called it much earlier, saw something happening way back in 2015. As did Herman Cain, by the way.

[elcid1970]

Don King has 1,000 times more class than this moron.

Not a valid comparison, Mr. President.

[SpaceBar]

This should keep the leftwing media chasing the laser dot for a day or two.

[W.]

More like small baller!

[Pietro]

What's amazing to me is that 6'5" black basketball players didn't think that they would stand out in a Chinese store.

Were they trying to blend?

I'm sorry but that level of utter cluelessness deserves some jail time.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

I agree! Great line.

[proud American in Canada]

‘Yep, that’s pretty much it. That’s why his nicknames work too.’

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He is a very intelligent man. I’m sure he doesn’t spend hours tweeting; he is able to form a quick thought and send it out, then get on to other matters.

His nicknames are absolutely perfect. They capture the essence of the person in two words or so. And they are memorable.

This ungrateful father really didn’t understand what he was getting into.