Another point that this all reminded me of is how often I have seen interviews of Trump voters where they say "but I wish he would stop tweeting". They don't seem to like when he gets into culture wars, makes them wince. For them, it's fine when he uses the method to attack other pols like Hillary or McConnell, but they don't want to hear him do it on pop culture nor on things like foreign policy? Keep it to the political fighting? Because: he's bad at it! I was thinking, presidents like JFK used sarcastic quips all the time, and the media loved it, and people loved watching that interplay, but Trump is not that, he does not realize it strikes few as charming and many as embarassing.

Even the Grey Lady is headlining "NFL Live" Updates

So I can't imagine what ESPN looks like.

One thing Trump succeeded at: ratings. For "them."

Some have argued, as in the links above, that he was trolling to distract from other problems. I think to think that is fooling oneself that he's that disciplined. What he attacks, he likes attacking, and he's disappointed when he doesn't get approval for it.

II think that just like tweeting knee jerk reactions of the early morning moment makes him feel in control, playing culture wars makes him feel calm but only when he can see it as a WIN. To have nearly everyone in pro. sports unify against him is not a win. It's a yuge loser, yuge. Bigger than Wall St. "Trump = bad" discuss on sports shows ad infinitium, he brought it on himself. It was basically permission, like Dr. Cleveland points out: not duelable,. more like: shunned.