Seriously, You Can Still Ignore Trump

You really can. There will be time to deal with him if you need to.

This Saturday, in my other life as a sportswriter, I was at Truist Park in Smyrna, Georgia, to cover Game Four of the World Series between the Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros. It was an exciting game in front of a pumped, incredibly loud crowd, one desperately to cheer their team to their first World Series victory in 26 years. (They’re not quite there yet.) But most of my friends and family weren’t so curious about that. That’s not what they were texting me about during the game.

They were texting me about this:

Drawn to the sort of sports-as-political-culture-war spectacle that was the World Series in Georgia — the place where the All-Star Game was pulled from because of their voter suppression laws, and where the Tomahawk Chop, Braves’ fans favorite cheer, has been under attack by Native American activists — like a maggot to a horse carcass, Trump showed up in Georgia on Saturday looking to score his usual lizard-brain points in his forever…