In years past, if I had to watch the Yankees blow a massive division lead to the Red Sox, I’d be yelling, cursing people out, demanding everyone be fired and all that.
Right now, I feel nothing. That’s what 9 years of Cashman and Boone have done to me. What’s the point?
DONALD TRUMP AT THE CHARLIE KIRK MEMORIAL
"I hate my opponents," the president said, "and I don't want what's best for them."
And with that, some five hours of praise and tears took a hard turn from the divine to the profane.
I voted for Trump, all three times, and most days I agree with his policies, but there's a tone deafness to him, a hole in his cultural heritage, that sometimes rears an ugly and divisive head.
Like Sunday.
In a stadium ringing with praise music, where Charlie Kirk's pastor had invited people to accept Jesus as their Savior, where Marco Rubio explained the need for a Redeemer, where Ben Carson and JD Vance spoke of their personal belief in Jesus Christ, and where a grieving widow said that her Christian faith led her to forgive the man who had slain her husband, Donald Trump gave a stump speech.
About how the 2020 election was stolen from him, about how crooked Joe Biden was, about how unfair the media was to him, and about how he had a big announcement coming about autism.
And about how he hated his opponents.
I presume that would include the 75 million Americans who voted against him in the last election. And anybody else who has earned his ire along the way.
To say that you hate your opponents -- at a service dedicated to a Lord who commanded his followers to love their enemies -- is almost a desecration, it is an uncaring blindness to the faith shared by the large majority of the millions looking in on this fundamentally religious memorial service.
It is reminiscent of the time I asked Donald Trump his favorite Bible verse and he responded: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
That is, indeed, a Bible verse -- it's in Exodus Chapter 21 -- but it is a verse which was specifically denounced by Jesus Christ in the Sermon on the Mount. It is known by most Christians for the fact that it's the way we're specifically told not to do things.
Certainly, nobody is obligated to have some specific faith, or any faith at all, and Trump isn't required to be conversant in Christian thinking or theology, but it's hard to be an American and never have come across these teachings.
And it's hard to be an American and not know that what the country needed at Charlie Kirk's memorial service was a president who brought people together, not pushed them apart.
While almost every speaker touched in one way or another on a Lord who offered love and salvation to all, who called his followers to brotherhood and unity, it was staggering to have the climax of the event be personality-based political division centering on the victimhood and grudges of Donald Trump.
What America needed was a reminder that we are one, that we can talk across partisan lines, that we have common cause and common humanity. That we should love one another, that we are Americans first. That's what a president should have said.
But that's not what this president said.
This president spoke of a world of us and them, of opponents, and his assurance that he hated his opponents. And that he did not want what's best for them.
And such is the imperial nature of this president that there is no one in his circle or in his administration who can tell him how out of synch he was, or to have warned him away from his impulses in the first place. And such is the moral construction of this president that his own conscience didn't warn him away either.
I voted for Donald Trump, all three times, and most days I agree with his policies. But sometimes he plays fast and loose with things that matter. And yesterday he failed to read the room. He failed to understand what was all around him.
Charlie Kirk was successful, distinctive and eventually martyred because he was a disciple of Jesus Christ. And everybody at that service understood that.
Except the president.
Donald Trump knew Charlie Kirk, but he apparently didn't listen to him.
RIP Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of Charlie or his politics if you don’t view this as one of the darkest days in American history than you are part of the problem.
If you don't like my political rants don't watch this. But how can Kamala Harris keep calling herself the candidate of change when she is the sitting VP? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Vote for whoever you want but I had to point out how crazy it is.
Ps - I know people are gonna say Trump is the worst candidate of all time and you're entitled to your opinion but he has won the nomination 3 times fair and square. Kamala has never had a vote cast for her yet.
Robert Saleh's connection to the September 11th tragedy is a personal one, that brought him closer to his brother and the game of football 🙏
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Exactly four weeks from tonight, the Bills play at the Jets in the first Monday Night Football Game of the season.
🏈Aaron Rodgers’ Jets’ debut.
🏈Dalvin Cook’s Jets’ debut vs. his younger brother James.
🏈Damar Hamlin’s first game since Jan. 3.
🏈A potential Von Miller return.