US President congratulates wrong state on Superbowl win

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 04-02-2020 01:50AM

Trump definitely knows a lot about American Football. He was heavily involved in the USFL.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! · 04-02-2020 05:26AM

metaoblivia wrote: »

It's not his worst error, but it shows an basic lack of general knowledge about the US, which isn't comforting considering he's the POTUS. Kansas City is one of the largest and most culturally significant cities in the Midwest and it's name quirk is memorable in itself. You can make any number of excuses for him, but at the end of the day, it's pretty ignorant. Middle school students are expected to know better.

Also, I don't know how capital cities came up in this discussion; Kansas City isn't the capital of Kansas (Topeka), Missouri (Jefferson City) or any other state (and yes, I knew those without looking because I paid attention and passed 7th grade Geography).

I don't make excuses for the guy, where they're not warranted.

I would be far more concerned, about how he's running the economy and how many foreign countries he has invaded in the last year... rather than how knowledgeable he might be on the location of every NFL franchise!

I guess some of us are just capable of judging the guy objectively, and putting aside what you might think of him as a person! I do find it quite sad, that apparent grown-ups in society, have decided they despise the man and not only refuse to give him a shred of credit where it's due... but also never seem to tire of highlighting rather pointless and trivial nonsense.

Everything seems so polarized these days. Very few people can see the grey areas... It's either black or white. That is quite boring to me. And of course, if you've decided that you despise him from the outset, you can always use confirmation bias to continue fueling that fire in your own head. Which many people do!

I find most of his mistakes amusing tbh. They're usually non-critical... someone like Obama probably would never make these same mistakes, but then again Obama made plenty of mistakes in more critical areas of his presidency. I'll take someone tripping up on twitter, over someone tripping up on important policy issues any day!

Optimalprimerib · 04-02-2020 06:11AM

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

hands up who knew Kansas City was not in Kansas before last night??

I must be the only one who didn't...

I didn't even know there was a Kansas City.

Jamsiek · 04-02-2020 06:14AM

Better Than Christ wrote: »

I'm in no position to criticise him.

I pay so little attention to American stuff that I literally don't know what the Superbowl is. Is it a stadium? A competition? Baseball? American football? I don't know. I mean, I could Google it, but I've survived this long without knowing...

Why comment then if you know nothing about it?

Jamsiek · 04-02-2020 06:33AM

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Who cares? American football is a joke of a game anyway, they spent more time playing ads than actual football.

Judging by this comment, it looks like you’ve never seen a game apart from the super bowl. It’s no secret that ads are a huge part of the super bowl due to the high viewership. You’ll find that most other games have far fewer ads.

Deja Boo · 04-02-2020 06:40AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Jesus Christ. The internet is going to be covered in this today on top of the Superbowl already. People are going to be calling him a diabolical piece of atomic shlt over it.

Can't blame them, he continually proves it to everybody. This is just the latest example... until tomorrow.

Yurt2 · 04-02-2020 06:45AM

I once knew a guy who accepted a place on a University of Washington exchange programme and didn't cop that he wasn't going to Washington DC until a month before hand when his home university booked him a flight to Seattle. It happens, although this chap wasn't the US President at the time (still isn't as far as I'm aware).

Wanderer78 · 04-02-2020 06:48AM

Omackeral wrote:

I could forgive non-American people for the assumption of thinking that Kansas City is in Kansas state but surely the President of the United States of America should know better?

I'd imagine many Americans would know this, I've only recently realised it, but since trump bashing rocks, he's kinna thick

Jamsiek · 04-02-2020 09:35AM

Raconteuse wrote: »

Vancouver, Canada - so close to the Washington state line... yet there's also a Vancouver in Washington... which is actually a suburb of Portland, Oregon.

And I just love It!

...and Vancouver Island doesn’t include Vancouver BC

764dak · 04-02-2020 04:42PM

8-10 wrote: »

In fairness the Giants and the Jets play in New Jersey but nobody says they're Jersey teams, they're New York.

The Washington Redskins play in Maryland and they train and have their headquarters in Virginia.

Raconteuse · 04-02-2020 06:39PM

DC does straddle both states though.

Better Than Christ · 04-02-2020 11:16PM

Jamsiek wrote: »

Why comment then if you know nothing about it?

You didn't have to read my comment. Sorry if it upset you.

MrAbyss · 04-02-2020 11:37PM

I guess he will have to step down as US President now so a handful of Soy Boy Civil Servants in Ireland - making their mammies proud that they have a good pension coming - can bask in their own brilliance...

Pack your bags Donald, Sean in the HSE accounts has spoken. You can't win.

KaneToad · 04-02-2020 11:44PM

I think Alan Kelly's sleeping brother was the bigger story to come out of this SuperBowl!

Jamsiek · 04-02-2020 11:51PM

Better Than Christ wrote: »

You didn't have to read my comment. Sorry if it upset you.

Not upset, just curious

Jamsiek · 04-02-2020 11:55PM

KaneToad wrote: »

I think Alan Kelly's sleeping brother was the bigger story to come out of this SuperBowl!

I didn’t hear anything about this so just googled it.
He must be pretty well off if he can sleep in expensive seats like that.
He could have offered them to me, I would gladly have taken them

Better Than Christ · 05-02-2020 12:04AM

Jamsiek wrote: »

Not upset, just curious

Odd thing to be curious about. I'd understand it if the thread was about the Superbowl itself and I had waded in for the sole purpose of being disrespectful and expressing my ignorance of the topic. It's not though - it's literally about ignorance. Which is why I posted my own example.

Jamsiek · 05-02-2020 12:06AM

Better Than Christ wrote: »

Odd thing to be curious about. I'd understand it if the thread was about the Superbowl itself and I had waded in for the sole purpose of being disrespectful and expressing my ignorance of the topic. It's not though - it's literally about ignorance. Which is why I posted my own example.

OK, gotcha

Raconteuse · 05-02-2020 01:29AM

MrAbyss wrote: »

I guess he will have to step down as US President now so a handful of Soy Boy Civil Servants in Ireland - making their mammies proud that they have a good pension coming - can bask in their own brilliance...

Pack your bags Donald, Sean in the HSE accounts has spoken. You can't win.

Jaysus, all that just to use the term "soy boy".

FreeThePants · 05-02-2020 04:30PM

Fun y video of Trump joking around and miming a conductor during the national anthem.

Will his supporters be upset with him, given how much they claim the anthem should be observed in an exact way by all people? Or will they prove that their whole righteous indignation over the NFL players kneeling in protest of discrimination against minorities had zero to do with the anthem, and everything go do with certain people getting too uppity and needing to be put back in their place?

We all know the answer.

Your Face · 05-02-2020 05:28PM

Carry on my wayward son.

US President congratulates wrong state on Superbowl win

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