Palm Beach, FL – President Donald Trump says he wouldn’t steer son Barron toward football, saying it’s “a dangerous sport,” but also wouldn’t stand in the way if the soccer-playing 12-year-old wanted to put on pads.
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The NFL fan tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” in an interview taped before the Super Bowl that football is “really tough.”
He says equipment, including helmets, has improved “but it hasn’t solved the problem.”
Trump thinks the NFL “is a great product.” But as for Barron playing, the president calls it a “very tough question.”
“If he wanted to? Yes. Would I steer him that way? No, I wouldn’t.”
The president says many people, “including me, thought soccer would probably never make it in this country, but it really is moving forward rapidly.”
Trump has, in the past, bemoaned that football games have become less violent. The NFL and college football have increased penalties and enforcement for illegal hits to the head and for hitting defenseless players.
“They’re ruining the game,” he said during a rally in Alabama in September 2017.
He said players were being thrown out for aggressive tackles, and it’s “not the same game.”
President Barack Obama, the father of two daughters, said in a 2013 interview with the New Republic that he would “have to think long and hard” before letting a son, if he had one, play football because of the risk of head injuries.
Obama also said football may need to change to prevent injuries.
Not once has there ever been a photo of Trump and Barron alone, hanging out. Any time a photo appears, it is always with Melania. Why??
To #2 - Trump is 72 and not 74; secondly, I didn’t request that they shoot hoops. However, we were told that Trump has played golf with Barron. Yet, we’ve never seen any evidence of that. Secondly, when JFK was President, it showed him spending time with his son. My point is that there is never any photos of just the two of them spending quiet time alone, or even speaking to each other. Barron is never seen in the Oval Office hanging out with his Father. Don’t they talk to each other talk to each other?
To #3- I’m afraid it is you who are the idiot; I never stated that Barron should not be seen with his Mother. Maybe you should have your reading glass prescription changed?
Have your parents ever changed your children’s diapers? If the answer is yes then I rest my case. Trump can change a diaper == he is just too lazy and does not want to break a nail!!
Than boy Barron doesn’t look like he could ever be a football player.
NFL players are chosen by a DRAFT system. Trump men can’t be drafted. They have none spurs.