What is meant by a “sports fan”? Someone who loves sport, is delighted, perhaps even speechless, follows athletes in competition as they outdo each other with an elegant, seemingly easy-seeming mastery of body and mind. Wonderful. But a sports fan can also be enthusiastic about himself and his activities, whether elegant or amateurish. The main thing is that it’s fun.
Trump’s fisticuffs fill books
That may sound like inappropriate wording. But the sports potentates like to see Trump as one of their own. At least they claim to always recognize the first sports fan they see in the 79-year-old New Yorker. One can assume that Trump, the MAGA master, would undoubtedly be able to improve his self-description on the topic of sports fan in German with just six capital letters: GRÖFAZ.
In any case, the “Biggest Fan of All Time” seems thrilled, especially with himself, as soon as he hits it, or in golf we would say tees it off. His fisticuffs when the momentum wasn’t enough fill books, at least chapters on his tricks and scams around the green. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) – unless you read anything else – ignores them as if they were petite dishes.
“A sports fan at heart”? This is probably linked to the hope that in four weeks Trump will adhere to the “Olympic peace” during the Winter Games in Italy. After all, the IOC has also been flirting with the Nobel Peace Prize for many years. Experience with autocrats shows that the effect of the Olympic movement is limited to 14 days at most.
Trump’s discipline: shoot and fly away
The major sporting institutions remain silent about the honoree’s further program, although the IOC, for example, always calls for “differences between nations to be resolved through dialogue” and not “by force”. The dependencies on the US market are too great, Trump’s actual specialty as a sports buddy is too dangerous for business. He is the heavyweight in the free style: the law of the fist.
