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POTUS calls father of freed UCLA player an 'ungrateful fool'
2017-11-22
[ABC] President Donald Trump started off his first day of Thanksgiving vacation by resuming his taunts of the father of a UCLA basketball player detained for shoplifting in China, saying Wednesday that he was an "ungrateful fool."

In a series of tweets fired off before dawn, the president complained yet again that LaVar Ball, father of LiAngelo Ball, hasn't given him credit for the release of his son and two other UCLA basketball players from detention in China.

Tweeting from his Florida vacation home, Trump said: "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."

"Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man's version of Don King, but without the hair," he said, referencing the flamboyant boxing promoter whom Trump once saluted as "a phenomenal person" despite a conviction for manslaughter.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  LaVar Ball, father of LiAngelo Ball

Three generations of idiots - or just illiterates?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-11-22 12:13  

#3  Bassetbaw royalty, witness the pompousness and circumstance!
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-11-22 11:55  

#2  La Var seemed to be trying to use his new-found celebrity to pitch stuff from his Bill Baller Company. He is trying to sell his over-priced company and over-priced BB shoes. Big Baller.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-11-22 11:48  

#1  A charitable reference, but accurate.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-11-22 08:51  

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