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President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« on: December 10, 2016, 04:47:46 pm »
President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
Townhall, Justin Holcomb, Dec 10, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump will attend his first Army-Navy football game on Saturday, his transition team announced.

Trump will split his time between the two sides, spending one half with Army fans, another half with Navy supporters, a tradition among Commanders in Chief.

Dwight D. Eisenhower is the only president to have played in the game, and Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to attend the game, splitting his time between the two sides.


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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2016, 04:53:35 pm »
Because spending a Saturday afternoon with his wife and son would be such a waste of his time.
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2016, 04:55:44 pm »
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2016, 05:00:18 pm »
Quote from: Rivergirl on December 10, 2016, 04:53:35 pm
Because spending a Saturday afternoon with his wife and son would be such a waste of his time.

Or ... because in six weeks he will be CIC and he's going to support those he will lead.   :shrug:
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2016, 06:23:59 pm »
I'm predicting that Navy is going to win. After all,they had a lot of experience bending over in front of other men.
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2016, 07:36:58 pm »
GO NAVY!
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2016, 07:47:12 pm »
I was in the Army for 8 years, though I didn't go to the Academy. I'd like to see them end their losing streak against Army.

I don't understand how one academy can be so dominating over another.
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2016, 07:56:12 pm »
They will all forget that he's a draft dodger?  They will all forget that he attacked a Gold Star family?
They will all forget that honor, integrity, and valor are more than words in a dictionary?
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2016, 10:45:54 pm »
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Trump cheered by fans at annual Army-Navy game
AP, Dec 10, 2016, Ken Thomas

Donald Trump was greeted with cheers on his arrival at the annual Army-Navy game on Saturday, basking in the one of the nation's most storied football rivalries as he prepares to enter the White House.

The future commander in chief, protected by panes of bulletproof glass, waved to the crowd and pumped his fist as he arrived during the first quarter of the 117th game between the military academies at West Point and Annapolis. The game, on a sunny but chilly day, was being held on relatively neutral ground, at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

Trump, in an interview with CBS Sports announcers Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson, said he was "totally neutral" on the outcome of the game and quipped that he might make Lundquist, who was retiring from the play-by-play booth, his ambassador to Sweden.

"I just love the armed forces, love the folks. The spirit is so incredible. I mean, I don't know if it's necessarily the best football, but it's very good. But boy do they have spirit," Trump said. Navy has won 14 straight contests in the rivalry, but Army's underdog Black Knights led at halftime, 14-0, hoping for an upset comparable to Trump's unlikely victory in last month's election over Hillary Clinton.

Trump spent the first half of the game in the box of David Urban, a West Point graduate and one of his Republican advisers in battleground Pennsylvania, and the second half in the box of retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a graduate of Annapolis.

Taking a break from his deliberations for his Cabinet, Trump was joined at the game by several top advisers, including incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, senior adviser Steve Bannon, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump's choice for National Security Adviser. Former Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson was also spotted inside the box.

Trump did not formally switch sides at halftime in the traditional symbol of commander in chief neutrality - which President Barack Obama did most recently during the 2011 game - because Trump is not the sitting president. The incoming president is a 1964 graduate of the New York Military Academy, a private prep school near West Point.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_ARMY_NAVY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-12-10-17-21-45
 
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2016, 10:51:47 pm »
Great to finally have a President who actually cares about this game.
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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2016, 11:02:58 pm »
He showed up and Army started losing.

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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2016, 11:13:30 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on December 10, 2016, 11:02:58 pm
He showed up and Army started losing.

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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2016, 11:14:07 pm »
Quote from: Night Hides Not on December 10, 2016, 07:47:12 pm
I was in the Army for 8 years, though I didn't go to the Academy. I'd like to see them end their losing streak against Army.

I don't understand how one academy can be so dominating over another.

@Night Hides Not

Huh? Last time I paid even the slightest bit of attention to the army/navy game was back in the 60's,and it seemed like the Navy was dominating back then.
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2016, 11:32:33 pm »
They should have put him in charge of the Navy Mascot.
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2016, 11:36:21 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on December 10, 2016, 11:32:33 pm
They should have put him in charge of the Navy Mascot.


   Made me look.


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« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2016, 11:42:32 pm »
Quote from: corbe on December 10, 2016, 11:36:21 pm

   Made me look.



I figured the goat was safer than letting him get near the Army Mule!
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2016, 11:48:39 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on December 10, 2016, 04:47:46 pm
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2016, 11:10:03 am »
*yawn* Wake me when spring training begins . . . ;)
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #21 on: December 12, 2016, 02:36:24 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on December 11, 2016, 11:10:03 am
*yawn* Wake me when spring training begins . . . ;)

Sorry, but you can't count on me until Gonzaga's basketball season is over.   :beer:

10-0, and I'm off with my boys to see them play Tennessee in Nashville on Sunday.

I will admit that the Texas Rangers have been quiet so far this winter. They lost Desmond to the Rockies, and Moreland's probably gone, too.
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2016, 03:45:27 pm »
Quote from: Night Hides Not on December 12, 2016, 02:36:24 pm
Sorry, but you can't count on me until Gonzaga's basketball season is over.   :beer:

10-0, and I'm off with my boys to see them play Tennessee in Nashville on Sunday.

I will admit that the Texas Rangers have been quiet so far this winter. They lost Desmond to the Rockies, and Moreland's probably gone, too.

Moreland signed a 1 year deal with Boston.

We resigned Gomez. Looks like they'll bring Joey Gallo up to play 1B.

What we need is some depth at pitching.
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Re: President-Elect Trump to Attend the 2016 Army-Navy Game
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2016, 03:50:22 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on December 12, 2016, 03:45:27 pm
Moreland signed a 1 year deal with Boston.

We resigned Gomez. Looks like they'll bring Joey Gallo up to play 1B.

What we need is some depth at pitching.

That will work out fine, if Gallo ever learns to hit a breaking pitch. I thought that Profar was being considered as an alternative at 1B. Rangers had the 7th largest payroll in MLB last year, knew that was only temporary. In today's MLB (unless you're the Yankees, Red Sox, or Dodgers), you need productive young players to stay competitive. Houston's pretty close to that, and they're getting better.
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« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2016, 04:07:22 pm »
Quote from: Night Hides Not on December 12, 2016, 03:50:22 pm
That will work out fine, if Gallo ever learns to hit a breaking pitch. I thought that Profar was being considered as an alternative at 1B. Rangers had the 7th largest payroll in MLB last year, knew that was only temporary. In today's MLB (unless you're the Yankees, Red Sox, or Dodgers), you need productive young players to stay competitive. Houston's pretty close to that, and they're getting better.

If they are smart they'll groom Profar to take over at 3rd for Adrian when he hangs it up.
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