"Guts"

Fox News reports that on March 6, President Donald J. Trump hosted a college sports roundtable

to examine solutions to key challenges, including NCAA authority, name, image and likeness (NIL) issues; collecive bargaining; and governance concerns...Trump has been adamant about "saving college sports," even signing an executive order setting new restrictions on payments to college athletes in July.

Dangling participles aside, if Trump can do for college sports what he did for the United States Football League (USFL) in the 1980s, within a few years college athletics will be but a memory.

In 2019, Judge Claudia Wilken ruled that the NCAA's limits on education-related benefits violated federal law and was on Friday lustfully condemned by Mr. Trump  He also had harsh words for the United States Supreme Court:

 

Says the bone head who launched tariffs violating our constitution https://t.co/4BTsPOQ8at

— Jumbo Elliott (@JumboElliott76) March 6, 2026

Compensation to college athletes, or "student-athletes" as they're often called, is a controversial and fairly complcated issue. However, Donald ripping anyone or any institution for not having "guts" is akin to him crtiticizng someone for being loud and belligerent or being sexually promiscuous.

Besides the war with Iran, the past week featured the firing by the President of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. Well, not actually a dismissal as

On Thursday, President Trump on his Truth Social announced that the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem has been removed and will be reassign to be the Special Envoy for the Shield of Americas.  That is the new security initiative that President Trump will be announcing on Saturday in Florida.

The President could have removed Noem without reassigning her. Having removed the former South Dakota governor from her role as a Cabinet member, he might have told her to take a hike. And he could have done it in person, rather than from the safety and security provided him by his own social media platform. Instead, he put her in charge of something he made up, either on the fly or which he kept in reserve so that if an Administration official became an albatross, he could simply assign him or her there without any muss or fuss.

Noem should have been fired after she accused Renee Good and Alex Pretti, shot to death by ICE agents in separate incidents during protests in Minneapolis, of having engaged in "domestic terrorism."  The charges proved unfounded and provoked nationwide outrage, with even some Republican members of Congress uncomfortable with Noem's approach. 

There were other good reasons to sack the DHS secretary, though she kept her job until GOP senator John Kennedy of Louisiana asked her during a committee hearing Thursday whether the President had asked her "to run" the ad campaign- costing $320 million- which was a thinly disguised effort to raise her political profile. She replied "we had that conversation, yes, before I was put into the position, screened, and confirmed and since then as well."  Whether true or false, the President was not amused and took swift action. He acted promptly but- notwithstanding headlines which falsely stated that she was "fired"- not truly decisive.

O.K., good move, Mr. President! Corey Lewandowski's main (at present) squeeze, an awful depatmental head from the start, had become an embarrassment for Donald. But it should remind us that no matter the image, Donald Trump was, has been, and is, the guy Bill Maher would call a "whiny, little bitch."

 

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