In this week's edition of "Why On Earth Does Trump Still Have Twitter," we give you the newest tweets to come from the President's account. This time, they're about his newest foe: LaVar Ball.
Ball recently went on air for an interview with CNN about his son's shoplifting snafu in Hangzhou. In the bizarre interview, Ball refused to thank Trump for getting LiAngelo Ball and two other UCLA basketball players out of a potential stint in a Chinese prison.
The patriarch of the Ball family claimed that he played a large role in helping the athletes: "I had some things done, I talked to some people that did some things, too."
Trump wasted no time letting the entire world know that he disagreed via his preferred method of communication: Twitter.
"It wasn't the White House, it wasn't the State Department, it wasn't father LaVar's so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME," he wrote. "Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man's version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It's a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!"
The Tweeter in Chief kept it classy with jabs at Ball's personal appearance. Trump also compared Ball to Don King, a notoriously corrupt American boxing promoter and supporter of Trump's, a move that some believe is rooted in racism. He concluded by reminding Ball of the severity of his son's crime — an apt point that is swiftly undercut by his closing sentence, in which Trump calls Ball an "ungrateful fool."
Trump seems intent on getting a "thank you" for asking Chinese President Xi Jinping to free the UCLA kleptos, and Ball seems even more intent on capitalizing on the estimated USD13.2 million in free advertising Trump has provided for his family brand.
Will this thrilling saga ever end? Will Trump and LaVar Ball end their feud amicably? Stay tuned for what we're sure will be yet another update on the battle between the leader of the free world and the patriarch of a company called Big Baller Brand.
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