The sheer madness of Donald Trump staging a photograph op final Friday to talk about college sports activities as his administration launches a deadly war — and berating a reporter for asking about that battle — might effectively have distracted the general public from the really nonsensical claims he made on the occasion.
But the president additionally sounded a observe of futility that means even he is aware of his proposals are doomed.
Advocates for college athletes have been noticeably absent from the occasion, throughout which Trump successfully vowed to return college sports activities to an period when student-athletes have been prohibited from amassing cash off their title, picture and likeness.
“When I look at what a person that’s a judge was able to do to destroy colleges and college sports that were so good, no problems, it’s very, very sad,” Trump said. “In some ways, I’d like to just go exactly back to what we had and ram it through a court if we have to. Because I’m not sure you’re ever going to come up with a system that’s comparable to what you had.”
Trump’s observe file of ramming issues by way of a courtroom has been quite poor. So if that is his tactic for fixing college sports activities, it’s not precisely promising.
Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He beforehand wrote The ReidOut Blog.