Sure, he's a douchebag, but he's a marketing genius. He just trolled the fucking president into giving him TONS of publicity. And, of course, the idiot POTUS obliged.


Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!

11:42 AM · Nov 19, 2017

The oldest son is playing like shit.

The middle son will be a middling D1 basketball player at best

The youngest isn't even playing high school ball.

Only a matter of time until this implodes.

Look I get that this is a game, but Trump did negotiate his kid's release from CHINESE PRISON and the first thing Ball did was go pandering to liberals with Trump bullshit. I usually support Ball and his efforts to undermine and destroy the shoe industry, but this was dumb. When it gets personal, like your kid could rot in CHINESE PRISON, you dont turn it into a stunt.

Nom rejected.

He's so awesome he deserves 2 threads in Shoutouts!

Make that 3!!!! He moves the meters here more than Julie.

It's going to be funny to watch all the "Pffft, Trump didn't ACTUALLY do anything to get those kids out" people turn around now and be "OMG TRUMP SAID HE SHOULD HAVE LEFT CITIZENS IN PRISON IN CHINA FOR NOT GROVELING ENOUGH!!"

EDIT: Here's one...

Where's the other tweet?

Dan has a few times (I heard during transition, don't cream yourself) said that Trump didn't do anything to get them released.

I guess that tweet would have landed harder if Dan were the author.

It's going to be funny to watch all the "Pffft, Trump didn't ACTUALLY do anything to get those kids out" people turn around now and be "OMG TRUMP SAID HE SHOULD HAVE LEFT CITIZENS IN PRISON IN CHINA FOR NOT GROVELING ENOUGH!!"

EDIT: Here's one...

Ever the pedant. Dan re-tweeted it, which is a common and reasonably interpreted express endorsement of the sentiment. Is this all you have left in the tank as a poster?

To be fair, those two sentiments aren’t contradictory. The latter is really just commmenting on the president’s childish mindset and his lack of restraint. One could in fact think he had nothing to do with it and also think it’s ridiculous for him to say what he said.

It's feigned outrage at something those very people readily say Trump could not have and did not impact.

It may be feigned outrage, but it’s not contradictory unless they further say something about being worried about going overseas now because of his comments... which I actually have seen a few say... and they are indeed hypocritical.

But a lot of people just think it’s beneath a president to say such things, and they’re right. Ball is an idiot too, but this is just another thing that’s Trump can’t be above. And Ball knew this would happen before he even made the statement. Checkmate.

I think the "left US citizens imprisoned by non-democratic regime" line is meamt to be sharing the stage of shame equally with "because the family didn't acknowledge him personally" in this context. Are others JUST highlighting the absurdity of Trump's childishness? Sure. But these two (Dan vicariously) are pretending that Trump actually being able to do something about it makes his childishness worse, despite claiming previously (in Dan's case) that Trump didn't do anything.

When did the original tweeter claim Trump didn't do anything?