Fortunately, he was wrong, as most of you will learn he is about many things.
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Monday, February 10, 2025
President Attending Super Bowl is Good, Picking Winner is Bad, Especially When He Gets it Wrong
Donald Trump is the first sitting President to have ever attended a Super Bowl game. Though I dislike both him and his policies, I like the idea of the nation's leader attending an event that attracts the interest of most of the nation. It brings us all together. But when he picks a winner, as he did here when he picked Kansas City to beat the Eagles in a pre-game interview on Fox, he divides us.
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You voted for Biden and Harris anybody who voted for people like that has no creditability at all so we don't care what you think.
ReplyDeleteThen why are you reading his blog?
DeleteTrump has done more good for this country in 3 weeks than Biden did in 50 years.
ReplyDelete100% After 4 years, of a sleepy figure head, we finally have a President!
DeleteAgree . Day one groceries are cheap . Egg problems solved. Gas is 2 bucks. And a weirdo from south Africa has my banking information. Wouldn't you send accountants to check for fraud. Not coders. Btw they have your information too
DeleteObama was in his second term and the only thing he could utter was “George Bush” .
DeleteWhat good? Let us see a list please.
ReplyDeleteYou must be one of those idiot democrats all you can do is lie
DeleteLet's see a list instead of your silly, immature name-calling.
DeleteWell, the egg prices dropped like a brick like he promised, right?
DeleteI appreciate the expectation of intellectual discourse. As all have our own opinions, and they will differ from others’, obviously, so why not approach the conversation with dignity and explain yourself rather than attacks, etc.? Bernie I know you said one must identify themself if making an attack, but this is not an attack. I can’t identify myself bc I am a teacher in a community which is dominated by opinions different than my own. To speak out openly can be a very bad thing for us teachers. One English teacher at my school lost her job for that reason during trump’s first time ‘round. Anonymity is important for me in this context but I don’t make personal attacks or unfounded remarks so we should be okay. 👍🏼
ReplyDeleteWhat a disgrace- that teacher should sue the District! It's called the 1st Amendment! It's only OK if you support Dems!
DeleteYou are entitled to your politics regardless of what they are. What you are not entitled to is trying to influence your students to favor your politics. Teach them critical thinking and let them decide.
DeleteIf this superbowl had been on CBS or NBC rather than FOX, rest assured he would have picked the blue stained Eagles, as the fix would have been in.
ReplyDeleteLuckily, the birds played an outstanding game, no typical cheating this time.
Boy, he sure has. He’s anointed a techno monarch to breach personal confidential computer data and financials disrupting statutes and law codes that are designed for tax purposes only, stepped all over the Emolument laws taking billions of dollars in all the while posing as the leader of our nation. He and Musk are dripping in conflicts of interest with their little hands in millions of government contracts and side show grifting, while the world stares at what we no longer are.
ReplyDeleteHow do you propose we look at all the fraud and waste?
DeleteCan't go 24 hours without bitching about Trump. Sad. Really is.
ReplyDeleteAmen !
DeleteAnd his actions will result in worldwide starvation……does that make you feel good ??
ReplyDeleteyou asshole
Deleteonly if out tax dollars would be going towards starvation.
DeleteAnd we should feed the world? America first. Get use to it.
DeleteEagles!!!!!! NICE!!!!! IT WAS ALSO NICE TO SEE PRESIDENT THERE!!!
ReplyDeleteUsing a Super Bowl appearance to take a shot at Trump.
ReplyDeleteSick, sick, sick.
It didn't divide us at all. We're sports fans and we enjoy the talk. Please let us have a little bit of fun, not everything has to be life/death.
ReplyDeleteSome people never learn but shoot off their big dumb mouths spewing idiotic facts and ideas based on sheer lunacy. Fortunately Bernie you aren't one of them but obviously some of your readers are. Keep up the good work Bernie by printing the facts and keeping us informed. As for the assholes who write nasty things about you every day, let them go to another source for their information like Fox (Fake) news.
ReplyDeleteLet’s see. CBS will be paying out for totally editing Kamala’s 60 minute interview. ABC Strphanopolis just had to pay Trump millions for his presidential library. So who’s fake news?
DeleteYeah, no other President EVER made SB predictions. For TDS sufferers, all "bad" political behavior started with Trump and previous politicians were all impeccable statesmen.
ReplyDeleteActually, I don't like it when a President picks a superbowl winner unless it is Philadelphia. Then it's OK.
DeleteSo you should be smiling today Bernie! I’m happy for my Eagle fan friends.
DeleteAs usual, Trump was wrong because he sought to divide his world into winners and losers. Also, he’ll go with whoever flatters him last, his billionaire bros know that.
ReplyDeleteBO has a problem with losing. Don't know why. He's really good at it.
ReplyDeleteHe may have Money on it BUT NOT TAXPAYER MONEY LIKE ALL THE DEMS WOULD USE
ReplyDeleteAll you democrats are idiots your party is dying Trump is like Raegan both broke up Parties -Raegan the communist party and Trump the democratic party.
ReplyDeleteTrump leaves Super Bowl early after backing the losing team
ReplyDeleteMike Bedigan
Donald Trump left the Super Bowl early after his pre-game prediction of a victory for the Kansas City Chiefs fell surprisingly short.
The president was pictured getting back onboard Air Force One more than an hour before the conclusion of the Big Game, which ended in the Philadelphia Eagles triumphing with a decisive 40-22 win.
Speculation around who Trump – who became the first sitting U.S. president to attend a Super Bowl – would be supporting had swirled prior to the game. The New York-raised Republican has never publicly expressed an allegiance to any particular team and has made appearances at numerous sporting events previously.
In a pre-game interview with Fox, the president said he would “hate” to choose a side and that he was looking forward to watching “a great game.” However, he did predict a Chiefs win after praising quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany.
“I hate to do it but.. I watched this great quarterback who has a phenomenal wife. She’s a MAGA fan… she’s a great person. I guess you have to say that when a quarterback wins as much as he’s won, I’d have to go with Kansas City,” he said.
“At the same time, Philadelphia has a fantastic [team] it’s going to be a great game.”
Shortly before pictures of his early departure emerged, Trump was posting on his social media platform Truth Social – not about football, but about ordering the U.S Treasury to print new pennies.
Even prior to his ultimately incorrect prediction, Trump had looked more likely to favor the Chiefs, having congratulated the team when they reached the Super Bowl, writing: “What a GREAT Team, Coach, Quarterback, and virtually everything else, including those fantastic FANS, that voted for me (MAGA!) in record numbers.”
He did not show the same courtesy to the Eagles.
When the Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018, during Trump’s first term, multiple members of the team chose not to attend the invitation to the White House which is extended to all Super Bowl champions.
Who cares? 1st President to ever attend- He attends all kind of sporting events! Biden never went to 1 Army-Navy game, which is disgraceful! You're sick- get some help with your TDS!
DeleteAny of your bloggers who voted for Biden or worse yet Harris Should shut their stupid mouths and fade away because they are ignorant and stupid people
ReplyDeleteTrump is divisive OHare says. Then he calls them cultists lol. So who’s divisive?
ReplyDeleteHas Trump ever done anything wrong? If you have a hard time answering, you're in a cult, homie.
DeleteI actually can’t stand the guy……..homie but two wrongs don’t make a right…….there homie.
DeleteJust like the Messiah Barack lol. Talk about cultist the Obamaites were even worse than the trumpers
DeleteWell Biden would have fallen asleep not a good look on TV lol.
DeleteHe's done more in 3 weeks, than most President's in 4 years!
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to put the word 'damage' between more and in
DeleteHe's cutting the waste and fraud, opening up our Energy , expelling boys in girls sports, supporting our allies around the World, getting hostages released, etc. So much has happened in just 3 weeks- btw, ask Netanyahu how he feels about him!
ReplyDelete9:45: The hostage deal and cease fire were negotiated under Biden. Trump was not involved.
DeleteTrump is NOT supporting our allies. He's threatening Canada and Mexico with huge tariffs, the Danes about Greenland, Panama about the Canal, he threatened Colombia with huge tariffs. He defunded USAID pulling all our soft (non-military) support programs from dozens of allied countries.
Want to hear something sad? I'm told when our USAID staff was closing up in one country and high-tailing it home as Sec Rubio demanded, the native employees, as a gesture of goodwill, even while knowing their nation would be worse-off due to America pulling all funding, gathered to sing the Star Spangled Banner to the Americans.
Trump is not a politician. He’s also not diplomatic. He does say whatever he’s thinking so love him or hate him I give him props for not straddling the fence and saying both teams deserve to win and I’m hoping for a good game. I think Trump taking a stand on whatever it is is refreshing. Just saying . . .
ReplyDeleteTrump is not a politician, he was a d is president. That is an invalid statement
DeleteYou just can't help yourself- who cares? We finally have a President-All the world leaders are stepping in line, since they finally respect us!
ReplyDeleteFolks, don't let Bernie ruin your day. He loves it if he thinks he's gotten to you with his crazy thinking.
DeleteThe only thing then worse than ohare's blog was that half time debacle.
ReplyDeleteI agree- it was terrible!
DeleteI was hoping for a little more diversity lol.
DeleteMAGA folks on this site, I hope you are starting to see that Trump/Vance/Musk/GOP folks lied repeatedly to get into office. It will be ok when that becomes totally clear to say, "TRUMP LIED TO ME." He lies all the time, and he lied to Democrat voters as well. Say it with me, "TRUMP LIED TO ME."
ReplyDeleteHe was going to cut grocery prices -- Are prices coming down??? Hahaha. Not at all. I just saw English muffins cost $5.49 at Giant?!
He said he didn't know what Project 2025 was -- Project 2025 is being put into action word-for-word.
Trump says he's for the forgotten people -- How about our farmers?
https://advancedbiofuelsusa.info/farmers-on-the-hook-for-millions-after-trump-freezes-usda-funds
He said he would end all wars -- now he's talking about Greenland, Panama, Mexico and "cleaning out" Gaza to make hotels or something.
He said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24hrs -- um...
He was not going to cut Social Security and Medicaid -- Get ready, everyone. He needs to make room for his tax cut for the rich. That's all he cares about.
TRUMP LIED TO ME. TRUMP LIED TO ME. It will feel really good to be done with your abusive relationship to a con man.
The guy has literally been in office 3 weeks and all you have is Fear, Fright, and Hysteria lol. English muffins are 5.49 and Trump has been in office 3 weeks I can’t believe it hasn’t come down! Do you realize how stupid you sound?
Delete11:50 AM Watch or scroll to the end. The title could be "It's a different World." Except you seem to be the one living in it. https://twitter.com/i/status/1888980017322885505
Delete12:57... fear? fright? hysteria? Lol. Nope. You wish that were the case. Read what I wrote again. I can tell you're hearing me, or you wouldn't have responded. What steps has Trump taken to reduce prices... any? Haha. None. He doesn't care about you and your family. Everything is always about him. Just remember what I'm telling you... when the time comes, it will be ok to say it to your friends and your family: TRUMP LIED TO ME. TRUMP LIED TO ME.
DeleteHe is all about MAGA, but I didn't read the * in 21 days footnote.... LOL
DeleteAlso, I didn't realize that the price of english muffins was triggering!
All joking aside, if any of you have owned your own business (I have). This analysis of expenses is something that is done all the time. Or, rather, it should be. GOVERNMENT has been free spending YOUR DOLLARS forever, and who holds them accountable? No one. It is the fox and the henhouse all over again. Remember the big deal about the cost of govt toilet seats and hammers. Yeah, and nothing happened to control those costs. Everyone looks the other way. Will there be some missteps in taking on this issue. Of course there will be! like the Big guy always said "Come on man"! ;)
Dude all politicians lie lol I’m still waiting for Obama to stop the rising oceans. You ppl are deranged. He’s been in office 3 weeks and my English muffins haven’t come down in price we our laughing our asses off keep
DeletePosting it’s funny. It was either him or that moron Harris. So I’ll take my chances with Trump. It’s going to take a good two years to clean up Biden’s mess
Trump lied to me lol.
DeleteClinton told me he didn’t have sex with Monica Lewinsky.
Obama told me if I liked my health care I could keep it, Politifact lie of the year 2009.
Bush told me Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Biden told me inflation is transitory and the border is secure.
If anyone on here actually believes anything a politician says I can’t help you.
“Starting on day one, I will quickly defeat inflation” - Donald Trump (August 2024)
DeleteWell, quickly is an open for interpretation LOL. Today the January inflation numbers were released. These are the last numbers of the Biden administration. Inflation came in hot as hell. Trump ain't knocking that shit out quick. It's very hard to get rid of the last stickiness of inflation without a recession. Paul Volker did it in the 80's when he raised interest rates to untenable levels to get rid of it. It caused a recession, and it's one of the reasons Reagan won, that and the Iranian hostage situation. This is Biden's inflation, he and Jay Powell, the Fed president, and Janet Yellen the Treasury Sec, assured us it was transitory. It wasn't. Game, set, match. It cost the dems the election. That and having perhaps the worst presidential candidate in history in Harris. Shit, couldn't even beat Trump, c'mon man she's awful.
DeleteHow does that logic work when Obama submitted NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament brackets?
ReplyDeleteUnlike Biden, Trump attended the game AND did an interview. Even David Axelrod said that was a mistake, the 1st sign of trouble! You and your minions in the media hid his obvious cognitive decline, which will turn out to be, the biggest scandal in U.S. politics!
ReplyDelete12:50PM Dude. Biden got old, probably he has Parkinson's and didn't want to admit it, but he was a good president. Check GDP. Check jobs. So many roads got fixed up... 191, 33, new bridge over by Green Pond, etc. He helped us get our footing back after the Trumpian COVID chaos. Trump is now again causing immediate chaos -- nationally and globally -- opening Gitmo, threatening our allies, saying he's going put troops in Gaza (in fact a bunch of American veterans are over there now as contractors)...
DeleteThe "biggest scandal in U.S. politics" hahaha... that's Trump letting Hitler-ass Elon Musk steal all our personal information... which is happening at this very moment, as I type.
Dude you’re delusional democrats got smoked
DeleteAll your personal information. Really? Musk founded PayPal before it was PayPal . He has your information if he wants it. He also has a Top Secret clearance because of space X why are you so afraid of what he might find?
Delete1:10 You're delusional! You and your sick party got your assessment kicked!
Delete6:19 -- ding ding ding... you win the dumbest comment of the thread, which is saying something! Your argument is: it's fine to give Elon Musk carte blanche with all Americans' private information? Haha. It doesn't matter? No one should care? When your mom's bank account gets emptied out and Belarussian credit cards get opened in your name, with your SSN, let's talk again. Ok?
DeleteDistrust all government agencies because they are bad, but trust lying Trump and Sieg Heil Elon Musk with my personal data? Crazy talk. I hope you don't have children.
These comments crack me up. Do you ppl realize that us taxpayers pay for free credit monitoring for literally thousands of federal employees because OPM has been hacked so many times. Like or not Musk is a federal employee. He has top secret clearance. Just like thousands of other federal employees have. Literally thousands of ppl have access to your personal information but you’re worried about the richest guy in the world lol. He doesn’t care about how much you owe on your half double dude. Relax it will be ok. Take breath. Turn of MSDNC you’ll be fine.
Delete10:34 You're doubling down on the stupidity. Your guard is down. Trust Elon? Laughable. The Trump Admin is stealing your personal data. Closing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. When reality pops you in the nose, don't blame Dems. They are trying to protect the average American from the billionaires actively trying to capture the government. I said it before the election ... that's all this has ever been about, the rich trying to control the government. End all regulation. They want no oversight. It's now within their grasp, and you're saying "relax." They slipped your a sedative, so you're numbed. Gotta wake up, man.
DeleteCan you believe Trumps approval rating is 53% according to CBS. Jesus H what’s wrong with this country lol.
ReplyDeleteBoth CHIEF Losers at the super toilet bowl. Trump and Kansas City
ReplyDeleteTrump today said he picked the Eagles to win. He said the Cheifs talk was fake news. When asked why he picked the Eagles , he said
ReplyDeleteBecause I have common sense.
1:57 --> --> Either you are lying or Trump is. You can watch him on Fox News talking with Bret Baier. The question/response comes around 6:00.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5GU7vvvRgA
President Musk is stealing The People's money: https://econ.st/4hIjogi (Gift Link from the Economist).
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when Trump wins the election. Utter C-H-A-O-S! Worst POTUS ever... without a doubt.
I hate Trump and everything he stands for and think he is a total piece of garbage however I couldn't care less if he picked somebody to win the game. So what? Everybody is entitled to their opinion.
ReplyDeleteI am glad he went. Yet, you bash him for answering the question about who will win! LOL Every single person of consequence gets asked that question, and 50% will always be wrong. But you condemn him for a wrong answer and call it divisive! SMDH . Talk about TDS, oy vey!
ReplyDeleteTrump literally makes liberals heads explode. It’s a riot!
ReplyDeleteTrump has a 55% approval rating with people 30 and under. Crazy!
ReplyDeleteBiden would have picked the Ravens to win.
ReplyDelete