I have asked this question many times in the last year. It's almost become a bit of a cliche,

I guess. But sometimes Donald Trump does something so completely bizarre, so eye-popping, so

outside the role of an American president, that it just prompts me to ask this question again.

I mean, what would have happened if a Democratic president did this?

Again, this is an evergreen question.

And today, Donald Trump is once again forcing us to ask that off-repeated question.

Because I am genuinely curious.

I truly, truly want to know.

What would have happened if Joe Biden or Barack Obama or, frankly,

any president before the mirror in between them, stood before a national audience and suggested

we changed the name of American football to appease a European-based soccer league?

When you look at what has happened to football in the United States, again soccer in the United States,

we seem to never call it that because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football.

But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called?

I mean, this is football. There's no question about it.

We have to come up with another name for the other. Yeah. Yeah. It really doesn't make sense when you think about it. It's really

football. That is, again, the leader of the Republican Party, a party that once tried to change

the name of French fries to freedom fries, remember that, just to spite the nation of

France in that case, suggesting that American football give up its name to accommodate soccer.

Now, the backstory of this whole episode also is even crazier, because the reason Trump was on

that stage, ranting about changing the name of the most popular sport in America,

was so he could accept a made-up peace prize from the notoriously corrupt soccer organization,

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