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@DrGJackBrown @stonecold2050 On the surface, this reflects how our sports obsessed culture idolizes & pedestal-izes athletes. Trump is a “jock-sniffer”: a chubby white kid embarrassingly going out of his way to try to get close to the cool/popular black athlete. In this context, Trump is also exploiting…1/
@DrGJackBrown @stonecold2050 …Woods’ popularity for political gain, and to draw attention to himself. But more importantly this move is another window into Trump’s character and value system. Similar, to Trump’s assessment of other people…..2/
@DrGJackBrown @stonecold2050 …by giving the highest civilian award to a guy who won a golf tournament shows the dysfunction of his priorities where “contribution to society” is gauged by what’s most important to Trump, what Trump values, what Trump “likes”....3/
@DrGJackBrown @stonecold2050 This is evidenced by his complete disregard for the responsibility of the office, and the cost to society for him to disregard those responsibilities: 174 visits to golf clubs while in office, with a cost totaling $99 million: 4/trumpgolfcount.com
@DrGJackBrown @stonecold2050 ...This is just one of many examples of evidence that exposes the degree of mental gymnastics that his "anti-elite" base has to perform to justify their support for Trump because "he's one of us": 5/
