. 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.

Trump is hardly the first president to step into the sportscast. And it’s not always a bad thing when it happens. Could anybody find fault with President George W. Bush for throwing out the first pitch before Game 3 of the 2001 World Series at Yankee Stadium? The United States was still reeling from the 9/11 terrorist strikes, and Bush’s appearance... See more

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

To talk about bans being put in place to keep transgender women athletes from being on women’s sports teams is to be mindful that a little more than two weeks after being sworn in for his second term, the president signed an executive order, titled “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports.” It called for banning transgender girls and women from taking... See more