George Foreman to Trump: Don't 'worry about the audience'

[DemocratSinceBirth]

You just know DSB wouldn't let this story go by without a video:

George Foreman says President Trump may be taking a page out of his boxing playbook when it comes to battling political foes.

“You know, when you’re into something like this, you just gotta fight,” the two-time world heavyweight champion said during a Saturday interview on “Fox & Friends.”

“You can’t even worry about the audience,” Foreman told hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade, when asked about how Trump “not [taking] a backwards step” changes the view of the president’s opponents.

“When I’m in those boxing matches, I hear, ‘Boo, boo, boo,’ after the fight, when I listen to them on the tape. But in the ring, you don’t listen to anything. You must step forward and fight,” the 68-year-old Olympian said.
Foreman, who said over the years that Trump “would always take my calls,” also weighed in on why the real estate mogul won last year’s race for the White House.

“Sometimes people win just because they’re winners,” Foreman said. “Some people lose just because they never thought they really would win, and they lose.”

“Winning is an idea, once you get in it, you can’t lose.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/318059-george-foreman-to-trump-dont-worry-about-the-audience

[gratuitous]

1. Those commercials . . .

You may have seen them, for Invent Help, mass marketers trying to do something in patent law. One of their spokesmen is George Foreman, who leads off his pitch by saying that "People ask him all the time" about how to get help with an idea or invention. I don't know about you, but I don't think Foreman is real high on my list of people to consult about intellectual property questions.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. He has a point. Trump only worries about the audience

and his "ratings" and can't function normally because of that.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Lyndon Johnson's Job Corps got him off the street and into boxing

The lettering reads "George Foreman - The Fighting Corpsman." In a letter to Lady Bird, George said, “I wore the robe with pride because it had been President Johnson’s Job Corps which had changed my direction in life. By wearing it, I thought all those Job Corpsmen out there would see that one among them was making it, and maybe it would help them believe they could as well.”

http://www.lbjlibrary.org/exhibits/artifact-of-the-week/george-foremans-warm-up-robe

Disappointing he would support a man like Drumpf who stands against everything Lyndon Johnson stands for.

[snooper2]

5. Well Johnson was an asshole so they have that in common

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. He was a lot more complex than Drumpf...

The Civil Rights Act
Medicare
Medicaid
The Fair Housing Act
The Voting Rigths Act.


Those are hard to ignore...


A teenage George Foreman was mugging people in Houston's infamous Fifth Ward when LBJ's Job Corps took him off the street where he learned how to box. It changed his life.

[LanternWaste]

7. To date, each president has been an asshole. So they have that that in common as well...

To date, each president has been an asshole. So they have that that in common as well...

(regardless of both our peevish irrelevancies, it was viscerally satisfying to say, so we have that if nothing else...)

[LenaBaby61]

4. Still happy all these years later ...

Muhammad Ali kicked his butt in the Rumble in the jungle in 1974.

Oh, and I never bought one of his overrated grills either