When the Philadelphia Eagles visit the White House on Monday to commemorate their Super Bowl title, it will only be the last photo shoot for the president Donald Trump And some of the country’s best athletes.
The winning championship teams have been celebrated by the presidents for decades, of course, but Trump’s sporting commitments have gone far beyond the customary. Since his entry into office almost 100 days ago, Trump has been a frequent presence in the sports arena – literally and figuratively. A week after he became the first president to practice attending the Super Bowl, Trump was at the “Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing”, “,” take a turn Around the Daytona 500 circuit. Days later, Trump negotiated a meeting in the White House to help solve a dispute from a year that has turned professional golf.
Sports were a bit important in Trump’s public life, of his tumultuous possession From a USFL team to its accommodation of boxing matches, UFC fights and golf tournaments in its casinos and clubs. While Trump has entered politics, professional athletics has become a useful optical tool – a means of attracting the attention of media and warm ovations, a vehicle to drive cultural wars and a platform to excite its base dominated by men. In Trump 2.0, sports have also served as a barometer for the “atmosphere shift” which has occurred since its first mandate.
We have gone from demonstrations of the national anthem and high -level spots – like Trump with the Eagles, who were disinpitated from the White House seven years ago – to A “Trump Dance” craze sweep the NFL. As a presidential historian Timothy Naftali said Vanity Last year, “no other president or presidential budding was as associated with sports as Donald Trump”. You will find below a guide on how sports have led Trump’s second term – and vice versa – so far.
Golf diplomacy
Jack Nicklaus once said That Trump “loves golf game more than he likes money”, an assertion that the president supported in the actions. During its first three months in power, according to the website Trump Golf Track, He spent at least two dozen days in Golf. Trump has long been connected to professional ranks, playing regularly with some of the best golfers in the world. And it is clear that the golf game loves Trump. “He is, I would say, one of the best friends Golf A,” said Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee said Vanity Fair.
Due to all this, a large part of the sport considered Trump as A potential savior in the dispute between the PGA Tour and its rival funded by Saudi, Liv Golf. The two parties disagreed for years, because LIV poache some of the largest stars in the PGA Tour, before they hear their intention to merge in 2023.
The agreement attracted regulatory and political control, but Trump’s victory in November increased the hopes of PGA Tour and Liv officials. Since its entry into office, it has been practical in negotiations, organizing talks at the White House involving the PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, President of Golf of LIV and governor of the Saudi public investment fund Yasir al-Rumayyan, And Tiger Woods. Trump seems determined to resolve schism, prioritizing the question in the face of other crises. Earlier this month, with the global financial markets of bustle, Trump welcomed golf leaders for dinner in his club in the Miami region.
“Why is the golf world optimistic that an agreement will meet?” Comrade said. “Well, because President Trump was elected.”
Trump presents the Tiger Woods presidential medal in Rose Garden on May 06, 2019.Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty Images.