Donald Trump continues to pick up more support from old, white sports men. Bobby Knight, Bill Belichick, Rex Ryan and now George Brett have all publicly supported the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee.
The topic of politics came up on Tuesday night’s Fox Sports Kansas City’s broadcast of the Royals game. Brett was in the booth with Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler to promote a charity auction, when Lefebvre brought up the 2016 election.
“Since this is an election season,” he said, “if a candidate is not the nominee, what they do, is they say ‘I give my support to a certain candidate.’ And for some reason this year, and I’m not going to get bitter about this, but the broadcast experience is not included in the auction this year. So Hud and I have decided that we want to give all of our support … Hud and I, we got together with our constituents and our supporters, and we urged them to take the support that they’d normally give to us, but since we are not finalists, to give it to the George Brett bunch.”
Brett replied, “Well that’s very nice, that’s very nice.”
Lefebvre: “So that should put you over the top I think.”
Brett: “A lot of my friends are hoping that the Republican Party does that with Donald Trump. Me included.”
George Brett's Trump comments from last night's telecast. pic.twitter.com/TNzUOhok9q
— Royals Review (@royalsreview) May 18, 2016
Brett has a history of supporting the Republican party, so it would seem he is following the party line and getting behind Trump. Or is he? A decent amount of Twitter users read between the lines and think his comments stem from the belief Trump will lose the general election.
So, George Brett hates Donald Trump. My life seems affirmed in some way.
— Shannon McCormick (@sadogre) May 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/Eric_Clarkson/status/732737484765827072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
By the looks of Twitter, no one knows whether George Brett likes or dislikes Donald Trump — and I'd rather not know the truth. #Royals
— Kelly Stroda (@kstroda) May 18, 2016
The confusion was so great The Kansas City Star polled its readers for their thoughts. An endorsement was the clear winner, but only received 53 percent of the vote. So did Brett actually endorse Trump? Probably, but we may never know for certain.
