With the exception of nearly weekly trips to his Mar-a-Lago property in South Florida, the president’s domestic travel has been rare during his second term. But since taking office, he has flown aboard Air Force One to attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans, the Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, and the NCAA men’s wrestling championships in Philadelphia.... See more

Trump has long been a fan of wrestling and has used the sport to drive what became a central promise of his campaign: banning transgender women from competing in female sports. Trump also routinely attends UFC fights and, a month out from Election Day, brought on stage the Penn State national champion wrestling team during a rally at the... See more

Trump’s style of populist politics took shape in this aggressive world of staged male combat, a world always teetering—tantalizingly, in the view of many supporters—on the edge of violence. As multicultural America became obsessed with tracking micro-aggressions, those immersed in this parallel universe of professional wrestling delighted in the

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