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Just saw a very interesting piece on when trump owned a USFL franchise - the New Jersey Generals - back in the early 80s.

Stop me if any of this sounds familiar...

He signed Doug Flutie to a huge contract & then demanded that all the owners of the other franchises pay Flutie's salary.

In other words, he decided something & tried to get others to pay for it...like a wall. And Mexico.

He then told the other owners that he would "guarantee" that the league would get a TV contract in the fall, and given such, he wanted money from them to help consummate the deal.

There was no TV deal.

And two years later the league folded.

Not to be deterred, trump sued the NFL. And...he won.

He was awarded three dollars and 76 cents in damages. And was banned from ever owning an NFL franchise.

Now here we are, three decades later, and looky there...who is trump taking on for the whole Colin Kaepernick thing?

The NFL.

I will wait for the light to go on in everyone's head here. In the meantime, lemme help -

It has nothing to do with respecting the flag or honoring the troops. It has everything to do with being humiliated over his lies three decades earlier.

Facts are stubborn things, folks.

Despite Outrage, Nike Sales Increased 31% After Kaepernick Ad

http://time.com/5390884/nike-sales-go-up-kaepernick-ad/
https://trends.edison.tech/research-nike-labor-day-2018.html

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I think the documentary of how he ruined the USFL is on Netflix. Wanted to go up against the NFL in the fall rather than keep the season when it was.

and that was the end of that.

He couldn’t even make money in the casino biz. That’s unheard of. HELL, everything TRUMP touch’s turns to crap.

Except the US economy which is absolutely rolling!!!

he inherited the economy.

and then after say his name, then explain why trump had to bail farmers out.

HAVANA — South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela ended a three-day visit here Saturday after an unhesitant embrace of Cuban President Fidel Castro's Communist revolution, which he called "a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people."

"We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious, imperialist-orchestrated campaign," Mandela told a rally at which he was Castro's honored guest. "We, too, want to control our own destiny.

"The most important lesson that you have for us is that no matter what the odds, no matter what difficulties you have had to struggle under, there can be no surrender," he added. "It is a case of freedom or death."

Mandela, president of the African National Congress, arrived in Cuba from Jamaica on a Latin American tour. He left to lobby Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela to maintain sanctions against South Africa's white minority government even though the United States has lifted them. He is also urging support for his call for a national unity government in Pretoria to supervise elections and constitutional reform.

But no persuasion was needed with Castro, who brands apartheid "a creation of Western capitalism and imperialism." Mandela's Havana stop was like a love fest between two revolutionaries who had long admired each other but never met.

"Cuba is our second home," Mandela's wife, Winnie, said while touring downtown Havana. "We feel we have always belonged here."

During his visit, Mandela thanked Castro's government for supplying arms to the ANC in the early 1960s and said the writings of Che Guevara, the guerrilla hero of the Cuban revolution, had inspired him during his 27-year imprisonment. He said the Cuban army's resistance of invading South African forces in Angola during the 1970s and '80s had strengthened the anti-apartheid cause and led indirectly to his freedom.

Castro's "consistent commitment to eradicate racism," Mandela said, was especially valued after the Bush Administration, "without consulting us, merely informed us that American sanctions (against Pretoria) were to be lifted." Easing sanctions is "completely unacceptable," he said, until the recent repeal of apartheid laws succeeds in dismantling South Africa's practice of racial separation.

Mandela wore a Cuban guayabera tropical shirt Friday night to a rally in the city of Matanzas marking the anniversary of a 1953 guerrilla assault that led to Castro's seizure of power six years later.

Hugging on the dais, the two men made an odd couple. The gray-bearded Castro, 64, has become ever more isolated in the world over the last two years. Allied Communist regimes have collapsed across Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union, his principle benefactor, has cut back its aid, intensifying the impact of a 30-year-old economic embargo by the United States.

Mandela, nine years older than Castro but trimmer and more youthful-looking, has grown in international stature since his release from prison nearly 18 months ago. He is perhaps Castro's most powerful ally.

Grateful for distinguished company, Castro awarded Mandela the Order of Jose Marti medal, Cuba's highest honor. During a ceremony Thursday dedicating installations for the Pan American Games, which Cuba will host next month, Castro complimented his guest for maintaining "an athletic figure" during his years in prison.

"If you want an example of a firm, valiant, heroic, serene, intelligent and capable man, this example, this man, is Mandela," Castro told the televised rally.

Mandela has been criticized by Western governments for his friendship with Castro, Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, from whom he accepted the Kadafi International Prize for Human Rights last year. Amnesty International and other rights groups that protested Mandela's imprisonment have censured Castro's one-party system for jailing his opponents and stifling dissent.

Speaking to reporters Saturday before leaving for Venezuela, Mandela refused to endorse such criticism.

"If there is a diversity of opinions about Cuba, I understand that," he said. "The people of South Africa and the ANC are entitled to have our own friends and allies . . . and in this particular case, Cuba is our friend.

"We are now being advised about Cuba by people who have supported the apartheid regime these last 40 years," he declared. "No honorable man or woman could ever accept advice from people who never cared for us at the most difficult times."

Mandela warned repeatedly that the ANC might abandon talks with South African President Frederik W. de Klerk and resort to "other options" if he refuses to negotiate on an interim government.

Referring to admissions of secret government funding for the ANC's main black rival, the Inkatha Freedom Party, Mandela charged that the government is trying to harass and weaken his movement. "These revelations have strengthened our demand for an interim government because what we've been saying all along, that the government cannot be a player and a referee at the same time, has now been fully corroborated," he said.

Voldemoort! Beetlejuice! There, I said his name.

Don't know why he had to bail farmers out, but I also don't know why Obama couldn't have cut the corporate tax rate enough to repatriate all that Apple and other corporate money either so...

How about the fact that Apple is building that huge facility here?

why cut taxes?

seriously, the economy was/is rolling. there is zero reason to cut taxes, especially with all the corporate welfare they ALREADY get.

You’re lying to yourself son, it was not rolling.

it doesn't change the fact that everything trump touts on the economy were trends already started under obama.

unemployment rate dropped under who?

black/latino unemployment dropped under who?

the economy started rising under who?

also, do you realize during the last job report, we lost 3000 manufacturing jobs? guess were most of the jobs added are in?

healthcare, tech, financial services.

just like under who?

say it.

You’re lying to yourself son, it was not rolling.

I learned it from how you post about Trump.

If he had said it, you would be crying LIAR!

A noble effort, but you're wasting your time.
Fax<FOX.

I've never owned a pair of Nikes... but I'll be first in line for this new model:

“President Trump would need a magic wand to get to 4% GDP,” stated President Obama. I guess I have a magic wand, 4.2%, and we will do MUCH better than this! We have just begun.

-President of the United States of America
Donald Trump

Not really to pick a fight with you Swish, because your points are true, but I just can't help but sigh when people throw this stuff out there without taking into account where we were in 2008 when Obama took office.

Like the Browns with a 2017 0-16, if we get 1 win we've improved, if we get 3 wins how awesome, if we get 6-7 wins we still have a losing season but that's an huge increase from the previous season.

So while I do credit Obama with presiding over, and helping to perpetuate an increasing economy and job market, to make it appear like he is the architect and sole reason, is to ignore the facts and circumstances.

and btw FF, what happened to all the conservatives who wouldnt stop complaining about the rising national debt when obama was in office?

trump added a trillion + to the debt with the tax cuts, and not one word out of conservatives about it. Trump is on pace to shatter obama's golf outings, has already spent more on security than obama.

all these things conservatives wouldnt stop whining about. now? its dead silence. can you explain that?

The Council of Economic Advisers is currently holding a Press Briefing showing how you are all factually incorrect (Lying) in thinking Obama's economy is responsible for today's successes of the Trump economy.

Tune in, get an education, for groping in the dark for acorns whilst howling at the moon is not necessary.

Please.

We can’t stop arguing about the past because too many can’t even acknowledge basic facts about the past and how it still effects us today.

And since we can’t even do that, we already know what the future is: a bunch of events happening in America because people refuse to learn from the past.

Financially we might be dominant compared to the rest of the world. But morally? Socially? There’s third world countries more united than us.