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

. From inserting himself into the ceaseless Pete Rose Hall of Fame discussion to calling for the NFL’s Washington Commanders and MLB’s Cleveland Guardians to revert to their old, racist names, Trump seems intent on being America’s Commander in Chief of Sports, imposing his worldview on an area of society that has heretofore resisted such efforts.

And he’s succeeding. Consider the role Trump played in MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s history-making determination that baseball’s “permanently ineligible list” no longer applies to anyone who has since passed away. Rose, banned in 1989 over a gambling scandal, died last September at age 83. Thanks to a dose of presidential persuasion — Trump... See more