Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice, once said of her father that “he wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening.” But the line fits Trump even better. As long as there is attention to be had, you can bet he’ll find a way to make himself the center of it and make sport of self-aggrandizement, regardless of who, or what, he may trample over on his march.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/08/trumps-strongman-image-got-boos-at-the-us-open-and-perhaps-that-was-the-point
#DonaldTrump #USOpen #Tennis
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