Donald Trump is reportedly trying to earn votes by emphasizing his masculinity, but heās being mocked as a wimp after admitting the reason he didnāt like playing football as a kid.
During an appearance on the āBussinā With the Boysā podcast on Tuesday, the former president took great pains to explain why he wasnāt fond of playing football ā and threw in a few racist dog whistles while doing so.
āI didnāt like [football],ā Trump said. āI played tight ... tight end. I could catch the ball good, but I didnāt particularly like having some guy who was lifting weights all day long and came from a bad neighborhood and he sees me ... they were tackling hard.ā
You can hear him below starting at the 1:54:40 mark.
Considering conservative surrogates like Charlie Kirk are claiming āyouāre not a manā unless you vote for Trump, many people on social media were amused to hear about the former presidentās fear of being tackled.
Trump said he tried to play TE in high school but he quit because he liked catching the ball but didnāt like being tackled. Maybe if they just let him score every time like Putin in hockey he wouldnāt have quit. https://t.co/bOWi1ygFVG
ā Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 15, 2024
āTieā¦ tight end.ā Trumpās lying.
ā Obamaās Portrait šš¾š (@2016Primary) October 15, 2024
He never played football. He went to boarding school at the New York Military Academy when he was 13. It doesnāt have a football team. It only has 20 students per grade. The tell was when he hesitated about what position he played. https://t.co/V3lRFaX74p pic.twitter.com/zDX4uK1CJG
He has no concept of team sports. None. So he quit football and played golf.
ā Rex Chapmanšš¼ (@RexChapman) October 15, 2024
Competition with a scoreboard and rules terrifies him. No wonder he calls everything rigged. Dude got tackled once and bailed. Hahahahahahaha
Tim Walz is the perfect foil to this clown
ā Spencer Dirrig š„„šŗšø (@SpencerDirrig) October 15, 2024
Trump is pathetic. Unless you are a small teen-ager, high school football in much of America is a rite of passage, like initiation ceremonies in other cultures. Trump confesses here that he punked out, ( and surely his high school didn't run pro-set offenses with "tight ends.")
ā James North (@jamesnorth7) October 15, 2024
"Trumpās take on football reveals more about his character than the game itself. Itās a striking reflection of his reluctance to face challenges, both on and off the field."
ā Democratic Path š (@uservago123) October 15, 2024
Some also pointed out the hidden meaning behind Trumpās use of the words ābad neighborhood.ā
So Trump didnāt like playing football cause he wasnāt good, was too overweight to be a receiver, and was too racist to play against black people that could beat him. https://t.co/0WGhH0Kc1F
ā Ian Hest š¦ (@IanHest) October 15, 2024
Trunp didn't like playing football because it might have involved getting touched by Black people https://t.co/EguwDBwaTR
ā š·Dante Atkinsš· (@DanteAtkins) October 15, 2024
He didnāt like poor African American kids touching his white privilege. pic.twitter.com/Zz7iRH2vfO
ā Jules Morgan š§ø (@glamelegance) October 15, 2024
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The racist dog whistle is now a bullhorn.
ā MaTT FLaMMaBLe (@MaTTFLaMMaBLe) October 15, 2024
Trump tells those two morons on @BussinWTB that he didnāt like playing football because he didnāt want to get tackled by "some guyā¦from a bad neighborhood"
ā Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) October 15, 2024
akaā¦a Black guy pic.twitter.com/zyoZV8UXf2
