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An embattled Donald Trump is increasingly using sports as prop

Sports is the rare topic in which the president has succeeded in shifting the conversation to his preferred terms Lately, it seems Donald Trump’s scope of interests has narrowed to a few things: remaking downtown Washington DC in his gaudy image; wars he thinks he can win quickly and easily, even though he can’t. Also, golf. Always golf. Ever golf. Leander Schaerlaeckens is the author of The Long Game: U.S. Men’s Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts, which is…

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An embattled Donald Trump is increasingly using sports as prop
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CurrentWire ranked this story 67.4 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.

Freshness
29.4 of 35
Source authority
14 of 20
Coverage breadth
4 of 20
Geographic relevance
10 of 10
Story prominence
10 of 10
Velocity
0 of 5

Strongest signal: geographic relevance, 10 of 10. How each signal is calculated.

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