Barack Obama no longer resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and that means it’s a dark, dreary day in the parallel universe of left-wing sports figures and their admiring media.
San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich renewed the attacks on Trump he began after the election in November. Associated Press sports-writer Tom Withers reported Popovich “would bench President Donald Trump.” He also ripped the president, whom he previously derided as “misogynistic and xenophobic and racist.”
Our president comes in with the lowest (approval) rating of anybody whoever came into the office. And there’s a majority of people out there, since Hillary (Clinton) won the popular vote, that don't buy his act. And I just wish that he was more — had the ability to be more — mature enough to do something that really is inclusive rather than just talking and saying, ‘I'm going to include everybody.’
He could talk to the groups that he disrespected and maligned during the primary and really make somebody believe it. But so far, we’ve got (to) a point where you really can’t believe anything that comes out of his mouth. You really can’t.
Popovich also characterized Trump as self-centered for his remarks to CIA staffers on his first day in office. Popovich overlooked the fact that Trump mentioned himself just three times in his inaugural address compared to Obama’s 45 self-promotions in his first inauguration.
Instead of honoring the 117 people behind him where he was speaking (at the CIA), he talked about the size of the crowd. That’s worrisome. I’d just feel better if somebody was in that position that showed the maturity and psychological and emotional level of somebody that was his age. It’s dangerous and it doesn’t do us any good. I hope he does a great job, but there’s a difference between respecting the office of the presidency and who occupies it.
Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors, had also blasted Trump in November. On Sunday, Kerr mocked the new presidential press secretary, Sean Spicer, who had previously disputed the size of Friday’s inauguration crowd.
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“Sean Spicer will be talking about my Magic career any second now. 14,000 points. Best player in Orlando Magic history,” said Kerr, who claimed he only scored about 14 points when he played for Orlando.
Several professional sports figures voiced or tweeted support for the women’s protests against Trump that occurred around the county over the weekend.
LeBron James sent a huge social media shout-out to women’s marchers protesting Trump’s inauguration. Detroit Pistons’ team president and Coach Stan Van Gundy, also critical of Trump after the election, told the Detroit Free Press he was happy his wife and daughters were able to join in the march along with the wives of assistant coaches.
The Detroit Lions’ DeAndre Levy, who once said his “proudest moment” as a college football player at Wisconsin was a sideline tackle that broke the leg of the late Penn State Coach Joe Paterno, and teammate Johnson Bademosi participated in the Washington, D.C., women’s march. Levy has had plenty of time to speak out on social issues in the last two years because injuries have limited him to six games. He tweeted, “When it’s post-inauguration and you can still smell the misogyny in the air.” Levy was all of 11 years old when the world-class misogynist, Bill Clinton, was impeached for lying to a grand jury about his “inappropriate relations with that woman” Monica Lewinsky.
Nicole Gibbs, the 92nd-ranked women’s tennis player in the world, tweeted: “Love seeing my timeline full of badass women standing up for themselves and one another. My heart is with all of you.” Retired tennis player Billie Jean King tweeted her support for the marches and urged women and girls to run for office.
Former U.S. women’s soccer team players Abby Wambach and Joanna Lohman both marched. And Lohman wrote a sky-is-falling message on Excelle Sports, a women’s sports blog: “I will be marching out of hope and responsibility and belief and faith that we can take this country to a better place than it is now.”
It’s going to be a very long four years for radical left-wing sports figures, and a time of great copy for the left-stream media that fawns over their activism.
