WEBVTT - BONUS EPISODE: The Politics of A Second Trump Presidential Term 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.600 All right, welcome everybody to the bonus episode of Politics, 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.760 which I'll drop periodically throughout this inaugural season. Now, these 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.919 episodes won't be like your typical Spolitics episodes. Sometimes it'll 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.520 be just me as it is today, and sometimes I 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.400 may have a guess it's just me sort of reacting 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.720 to things as they say in real time. First, I 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.200 want to start on the thoughts or my thoughts rather 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.280 on this election. I've been really careful about sharing my 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.479 thoughts on this election. I mostly haven't shared it in 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.320 a public space, just because, you know, I really needed 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.440 to process and sort of really think about what I 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.560 wanted to say, and not that what I have to 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.519 say is so revolutionary compared to what other people have 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.720 been saying. But I think it's pretty clear and it's 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.360 pretty evident what happened. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.880 And as for me, this was. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.560 Not something that was surprising in the lightest that Kamala 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.800 Harris would lose to Donald Trump, because I like this 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.840 was a direction that we were sort of headed in, 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.160 you know, and this hasn't just been in the making 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:12.280 when Kamala Harris became the head of the Democratic presidential 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.399 nominee in terms of the ticket, this was something I 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.840 think that has been going for much longer than that 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.920 heading towards this particular moment, and mostly because I know 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.640 this as a journalist and seeing all the information that's 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.399 out there on social media, is that journalists, or very 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.880 specifically I should say the Democratic Party, but it's also 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.200 tied to journalism overall. They've lost the information war, and 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:40.920 this is a defeat that was quite clear in to how, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.360 you know, some of the various campaign ads, which I'll 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.840 get into in a moment, but also the way that 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.160 people were processing the information. And you know, when you 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.680 looked at any social media site, it was just flooded 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.600 with misinformation. And I think we're at a point now 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.560 in society where in our classroom, on campuses, and just 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:05.040 in our daily lives that a lot of people need 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.160 to be able to decipher between misinformation, disinformation and truth. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.400 And a lot of the feelings that are evoked in 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.959 this election, often a lot of it was led by misinformation. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.280 So I was not surprised, and I'm not saying that's 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.400 the only reason that people didn't elect Kamala Harris. I 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.520 think there were other factors that were at play, but 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.760 I wasn't surprised. And here's proof that I wasn't surprised, 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.240 because about a month ago, I was asked at an 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.240 event that was put on by the Atlantic, where I 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.720 also know, right I'm a contributing writer for The Atlantic, 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.480 as many of you know, where I cover the intersection 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:44.160 between race, sports, politics, gender and culture. I was doing 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.400 an event on Michigan State's campus and I was asked 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.600 who I thought would win this election. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.399 And here's what I said, quickly before we go. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.799 If the election were held today, who's going to win? 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.840 Donald Trump? If the election were held today, who's going 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.360 to win? Kamala Harris? 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:08.600 I think Trump will win. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.680 But there's three weeks left. There's a lot of game left, 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:14.120 as they. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.760 Say, so clearly I did see this coming, but I 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:22.120 still don't think that makes it any more difficult to accept. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.119 As many of you all know, I've had my own 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:29.560 personal history with Donald Trump. Back in back in twenty seventeen, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.320 I tweeted that the president is a white supremacist. These 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.640 are words I still stand on, words I think that 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.840 have been proven ever since then and were proven before 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.440 I said it. And that tweet, of course, changed my 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.040 career in many ways. It changed how people perceive me. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.840 It changed a lot of things. And the president in response, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.040 he said I should be fired. He blamed me for 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:57.640 ESPN's ratings being not healthy, apparently, and the then Press 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.320 Secretary Sarah Helckabe Sanders, who is now the govern of Arkansas, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.800 also said that I should be fired. So yes, I 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.640 take the reelection of Donald Trump quite personally because of 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:09.920 the person themselves. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.080 But also as a black woman. And that is. 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.040 Because I think for a lot of black women we 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.080 can relate to Kamala Harris just in the sense of 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.880 some of us have been in that position before where 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:26.640 we felt qualified, if not overqualified in many respects, and 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.360 for a lot of Black women, even though we should 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.880 not internalize it this way, it felt like a particular 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.920 rejection of some of the things that we've been fighting for, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.800 or it felt like a particular rejection of sort of 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.400 our place and how we're seen in this society. And 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.240 I don't think it's by any accident that both of 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:54.080 Trump's presidential victories have been against women Hillary Rodham Clinton 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.480 of course in twenty sixteen, and now in Kamala Harris, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.760 because some of those same tropes have come up in 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.160 both elections and so it does make you wonder at 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.039 what point I hate to use the word ready, but 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.960 at what point will America be ready for a woman 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.520 to be in that role. I think it's a question 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.120 we have to ask ourselves, is like, what is it 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.280 going to take? Because I see all this, you know, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.680 all these post election autopsies trying to box around what 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:27.400 I think was pretty obvious about how racism and misogyny 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.440 we're driving a lot of the coverage, the opinions, and 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:36.720 even how the electorates saw Kamala Harris, and so if 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.400 y'all want to fight about it, let's fight about it. 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.719 But I think it was particularly evident. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.000 But now it's time to turn the page, and I 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:49.440 think it's important as we think about what another Trump 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.200 presidency could mean. I think it's important that we think 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.080 about what this might mean in terms of the world 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:01.360 of sports, because I think how a Trump presidency will 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.640 impact the world of sports this time around will be 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.120 a lot different than it was the first time around. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.960 Now, if you all remember from. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.960 That time when Trump was first in office, he was 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:17.120 able to use certain sports issues as a political football 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:21.679 that helped more endear himself to his base that maybe 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.840 in some respects, you could say, grew his base, and 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.000 one of those ways was his attacks on NFL players 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.839 and Colin Kaepernick in particular, who in twenty sixteen, before 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.840 he became president, Colin of course, decided to take a 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:43.520 knee to protest against social injustice. This became arguably the 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.960 biggest story in sports, certainly a very important story, and 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.800 so that gave us a window as to what to 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.039 expect from a Trump presidency. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:53.440 Now, even though we don't have. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.880 A Colin Kaepernick in this moment, I think one of 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.720 the biggest things we have to look at is how 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:03.160 Trump's plans for the US Department of Education, how that 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.880 may factor into how athletes are treated this go around. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.400 So I want you to pay attention to something he 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.600 said about the Department of Education. Here's that sound right now. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.240 We're going to end education coming out of Washington, d C. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.440 We're going to close it up, all those buildings all 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.320 over the place, and you have people that in many 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:22.679 cases hate our children. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.320 We're going to send it all back to the States. Now. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.560 Of course, a lot of people are applauding this, which 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.960 is kind of crazy to me, but I get it 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.280 because a lot of us don't really fully understand the 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.080 difference between how the Department of Education operates and how the. 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.840 State Board of Education operates. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:42.640 I think there is certainly a degree of satisfaction that 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.800 people feel by the idea of disbanding a government department 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.800 over an issue that a lot of people in this 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.320 country aren't happy with, and that is education, even though 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.600 by certain metrics it shows America is still one of 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.240 the top places to be educated. Now, this isn't me 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.680 trying to cape for our educational system, because when you 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.600 do a dive to where American students rank in math 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.239 and science, that tells a much different story. The United 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.480 States ranks thirty fourth in math, sixteenth in science. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.040 And as someone who went to. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:12.880 Public school in Detroit, I know that a lot of 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.160 inner city schools face a lot. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:16.400 Of educational challenges. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.160 But let's take a look at the Department of Education 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.680 and how that correlates to sports. One of the most 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.040 important elements of the Department of Education is enforcing Title nine. Now, 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.360 I don't need to tell you the importance of Title nine, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.560 but in case you need to remember, it's the single 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.120 most important piece of legislation in the history of women's sports. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.840 Title nine was enacted by Congress in nineteen seventy two. 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.400 Title nine prohibits sex discrimination in education. When Title nine 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.000 was formed, it wasn't intended to be the bridge that 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.000 necessarily opened the access point for women in collegiate sports, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:53.079 but that's essentially what happened. The Department of Education enforces 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:58.040 and investigates Title nine violations. These violations range from investigating 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.760 inequities between men's and women'sport worts inside of the athletic departments, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:06.280 and this part is really important to also including investigating 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.560 sexual assaults that happen on campus. Now, we have some 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.960 indication of how Trump's administration will handle Title nine enforcement 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.199 based off what his administration did the first time around, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.959 and based off the plans laid out in Project twenty 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.800 twenty five, you know, the playbook for his second term 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.360 that Trump claims to not know anything about. That's what 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.800 I'm talking about when I refer to Project twenty twenty five. Now, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.000 in his first term, Trump appointed Betsy Devas as the 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.480 Education Secretary, and when the first thing she did was 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:38.080 take some teeth out of Title nine protections. Now, among 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.120 the many new policies that Betsy DeVos instituted to Title 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.880 nine the most egregious was accused rapists were allowed to 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.520 cross examine their alleged victims in a live trial. Please 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.720 don't tell me, I have to explain to you why 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.280 that is really fucked up. Based on what's proposed for 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.600 Title nine to Project twenty twenty five, the goal is 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.040 to make the process of filing a complaint for any 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.520 discrimination that fall under Title nine painful and lengthy, and 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.920 it would basically require those who come forward with Title 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.079 nine complaints to have a legal team. It does everything 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.920 possible to discourage people from coming forward for highlighting abuses 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.439 that are happening in the system, and that doesn't just 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.760 apply to sexual assault, but virtually any violation of Title nine. 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.640 Now as it is, there are some eighty percent of 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.440 athletic departments that are not fully compliant with Title nine. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.240 Although to various degrees, if Title nine is put under 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.120 the Department of Justice or it's under the supervision of 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.880 the state, Title nine it may as well not exist. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.360 The Department of Justice isn't going to have much incentive 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.920 to investigate anything, and the states may not have the 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.959 resources to take it on either. Now there's a lot 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.600 of people saying that again this is a good idea 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.480 to get rid of the Department of Education. But I'll 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.480 go back to something I said previously. I need you 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.200 all to understand how the Department of Education actually works. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.160 So in nineteen seventy nine, former President Jimmy Carter he 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.559 split off the Education from the Department of Health, Education, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.719 and Welfare. Now, what the Department of Education does is 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.680 supplement state resources to fund a variety of programs. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.920 So here's one thing I want y'all to understand. Said 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:12.480 this earlier. 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.800 Now I'm going to get a little more specific. There 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.440 is a difference between the State Board of Education and 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.560 the Department of Education. The state Board of Education, and 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:27.400 this does vary by state, generally controls the curriculum, instructural materials, 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:32.800 and handles accountability. They decide the textbooks and the regulations. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.960 So a lot of y'all that have a problem with 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.960 the education in your community that is a state and 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:42.760 local issue, not a federal issue. The Department of Education 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.840 is the enforcer of federal laws. They also oversee the 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:51.280 financial aid programs and conduct educational research. So it's the 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.800 Department of Education that oversees peil grants. And if that 0:11:55.040 --> 0:12:00.400 is abolished, that would disproportionately impact low income students. Now, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.960 I was a Peil grant recipient and without it, my 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:07.440 student loan debt would have probably been astronomical. So this 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.720 is a very key piece of what the Department of 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:14.040 Education does. The Department of Education also oversees the funding 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:18.280 for students with disabilities, including special ed and for programs 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.400 such as head Start, which is used by nearly eight 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.000 hundred thousand children from birth to age five. I was 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.840 a Headstar kid two. So hopefully we understand the difference 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.000 between these two. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.160 Departments and how they operate. 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.439 But beyond Trump's promise to destroy the Department of Education, 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:41.240 here's another way in which his presidency could potentially impact sports. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.360 You know who is really happy with not just a 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.000 Trump presidency, but also the re election of Texas Senator 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.599 Ted Cruz, And that would be the NCAA. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.320 Let me hit you to some gang. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.880 Ted Cruse is going to be the new chair of 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.720 the Senior Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over college sports issues, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.800 and he has a very strong, very NCAA position. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.440 Current state of affairs is the wild West. When you 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:14.560 combine unlimited nil rights with an unlimited transfer portal, we 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.640 are entering an arena where every player goes to the 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:24.160 highest bidder, and the loyalties of players to teams and 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.320 the ethos of college sports is a real jeopardy. We're 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.959 also at risk of seeing a handful of giant mega 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.520 schools with all the money creating super teams and the 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.480 rest of schools unable to compete, which I think would 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.520 be terrible. To have college athletics succeed, you have to 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.760 have some modicum of parody. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:49.760 All right, because before NIL existed, things were so equitable, right, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.000 The top programs weren't the same programs that were usually 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.959 at the top every year. But you know what has 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.520 happened as a result of this quote, Wild Wild West 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.000 that Ted Cruz talks about is a school like India 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.360 whose football program has largely on a historical level, been terrible. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.520 But they went out, They got a good coach and 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.720 Kurt Signetti. They made a huge financial commitment to him 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.000 into bolstering the program. They got thirty one transfers, and 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.480 now they are on the cusp of making the College 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:20.640 Football Playoff. Did NIL stop Vanderbilt from upsetting Alabama this season? 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:21.320 It did not. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.920 So the NCUBA loves to see TAA Cruz coming to 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.840 be chair of this committee because another thing that Senator 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.520 Cruz is solidly against is college athletes being classified as employees. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.960 The reason the NC DOUBLEA is against that is because 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.760 it opens them up to future lawsuits, and if athletes 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.880 are employees, they couldn't do anything to restrict player movement. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.480 So maybe instead of some of you college football players 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.520 who were doing the Trump dance when you were celebrating 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.520 an end zone, maybe some of y'all should have been 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.160 studying up on how this election might potentially impact your pocket, 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.600 especially if you are a college athlete in the state 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.359 of Texas. Because the cat it that Ted Cruz ran against 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.480 is a former Baylor linebacker who played for the Tennessee 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:11.200 Titans colin already now he has a much different opinion 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.200 than Ted Cruz because he actually played college football and 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:16.320 professional football. 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.640 Here it is, Yeah, I wouldn't be where I am 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.480 today without the opportunity that college sports gave me. The 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.440 scholarship that I got at Baylor set me on the 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.920 path to go into law school, to playing in the NFL, 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.240 of course, but then also having a chance to serving Congress, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.760 and so to me, uh, it's incredibly This is an 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.680 incredibly important institution on top of being an incredibly profitable one. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:43.600 And as we've seen this become such a big business now, 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.040 it always had to come to this that at some point, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.400 the players who were generating so much revenue for everyone else, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.120 we're going to have to benefit from from that themselves. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.280 As I said in that statement, you know, I really 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.360 struggled when I was at Baylor financially and I was 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.160 on scholarship, you know, but after I paid my rent 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.600 and my bills, there wasn't much leftover. But at the 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.320 same time, I was playing a video game, the NCAA 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.960 football game at that time with my player, you know, 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.440 number thirty four, middle linebacker for Baylor six two to 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.760 two thirty five from Dallas. I wasn't seeing any of 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.560 that revenue, right, And I think that wasn't right either. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.840 Now, beyond those things I pointed out, of course, another 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.560 really big issue that Trump took on related to sports 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.480 was transgender athletes. Not No poll after poll has shown 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.280 that a lot of Americans disagree with trans women playing 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.640 in sports, or trans women playing girls or women's sports. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.240 And here's the ad that Trump ran to further bolster 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:40.320 this home. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:46.280 Kamala support taxpayer funded sex changes for prisonente surgery for prisoners, 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:51.480 for prisoners, every transgender inmate in the prison system would 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.040 have access. Now, no, I don't want my taxpayer dollars 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.080 going to that. Kamala support transgender sex changes in jail 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:57.760 with our money. 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.840 Kamala even supports letting buy a lot men compete against 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.680 our girls in their sports. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.359 Kamala is for day dem President Trump is for you. 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.200 I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message. 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:11.240 But let me ask you something. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:15.359 Does the level of response to trans athletes meet the problem? 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.680 Because for all of you that said inflation in the economy, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.240 where your primary concerns and the reason you voted for Trump, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.800 where do you rank trans girls and women playing women's 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.840 sports on the list of things that are priorities for. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.240 You that actually impact your life? 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.840 I asked that because of this, the trans population makes 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.119 up less than one percent of the total population in 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.439 the United States, but since twenty twenty twenty three states 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.520 have passed laws restricting trans athletes to participate in sports 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.280 according to their assigned gender identity. There are five hundred 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:53.159 thousand NCAA college athletes, only forty identify as trans and 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.320 that is trans women and men. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.000 Only one trans athlete in history has won. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.439 An Olympic medal, Quinn, who won as a member of 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.000 the Canadian women's soccer team at the Tokyo Olympics. So 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.280 even the shortest glimpse of history shows you that this 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.600 has not been a prevalent issue throughout. And I need 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.760 to mention this about that ad that ran so successfully 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.920 when both candidates were on the campaign trail. The reason 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:25.879 why Kamala Harris said that she supported inmates receiving gender 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.680 affirming care is because it's actually the law. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.200 That same law Trump also had to adhere to when 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:33.400 he was president. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.400 Now, this law is based off a nineteen seventy six 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:42.800 Supreme Court ruling which said that states are responsible for 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:48.439 providing healthcare to inmates. Now, transgender inmates were able to 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.480 expand that rule to include gender affirming care because they 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.840 sued or the right to do it. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.120 So that is the law. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.080 So it doesn't matter now that he's president. That's not 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.160 going away because it's based off a Supreme Court ruling. Now, 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.800 of course it could if it's challenged again in court, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.359 but so far that has not been the case. So 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.399 for all those who were upset about the idea of 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.480 your tax dollars paying for this. It's a law, that's 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.439 why it's being followed. But I'll say this, one of 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.400 the things I find so kind of disingenuous about the 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.800 positioning of trans athletes as being the boogeyman and boogie 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:33.240 women is that for years, by any historical measure, what 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:37.000 has undermined women's sports the most has been lack of investment, 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.680 lack of resources, lack of media coverage, and generally being 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:46.280 considered an afterthought. Those are the things that have allowed 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.439 women's sports to be vulnerable. So if you want to 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:52.440 protect women's sports, then I would suggest you protect women's 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:57.000 sports by watching women's sports, by investing financially in women's sports, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.480 and by making sure that the media covers women's sports 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.960 with the same intensity that they covered some other things, 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.119 particularly some men's sports. Those are the things that undercut 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.680 women's sports. You know, I'll just say in generally that, 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.120 you know, as we think about, you know, the impact 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.120 that Trump could have on the sports world. The other 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.840 thing I think is going to be pretty obvious this 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:25.879 go around is that I think there's going to be 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:29.800 a different normalization of Trump than what we saw before 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.560 now already if you guys watched the UFC fight recently 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.240 John Jones where he won, the one that was in 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.440 New York City. As you see, Donald Trump was there 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.439 with Elon Musk, the Speaker of the House, speaker Mike Johnson, 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.840 and John Jones did the Trump dance. You know in 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.200 the NFL saw a lot of athletes during the Trump 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.400 the Trump Dance. I didn't even know that was a thing, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.960 but all right, saw a lot of college athletes, as 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:56.240 I mentioned earlier, doing the Trump Dance. And so whereas 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.440 before I think there was this sort of toxicity that 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:05.160 was around showing open support of Donald Trump, I don't 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.240 think that will be there anymore. And I'm not sure 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.360 if that's good or bad, particularly when you look at 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.000 policy wise, some of the things he could do that 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:18.640 could greatly impact and potentially undermine sports in a lot 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:23.440 of ways, at least for certain communities within sports. And 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.960 I'm really curious to see what happens when he's in 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.440 the White House and it's that time where a champion 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.480 in any of the major sports, and maybe even the 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.679 NCAA champions, when it's time for them to visit the 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.400 White House remember from the first go around, a lot 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.479 of athletes said no, most notably the NBA not Nara. 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.360 NBA team was in the White House to commemorate their 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:50.680 championship during the Trump years, and to my recollection, most 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.880 of the women's teams that won a championship weren't even 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.880 invited to the White House. I mean some of them went, 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.119 and I think that had a lot to do with 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:04.040 how how that particular coach felt about Donald Trump. I'm 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:08.520 thinking about you, Kim Moulky, because Baylor, the women's team, 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:12.800 was I think, frankly maybe the only individual women's team 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.560 that went to the White House during his first presidency. 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:22.240 But because of how much more normalized Trump has become, 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:26.920 I wonder if that same you know, resistance will be there. 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.440 Another thing I think that has to be considered too, 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:33.200 is we know that Donald Trump loves to retaliate against 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:36.800