Donald Trump is easy to please and impossible to satisfy. You can praise him publicly, kiss up to him privately, and adopt his positions so quickly you pull every muscle in your body, and he will smile and love it for about 10 minutes. Then he will want something else. He will find some reason you disappointed him. He might even pretend you didn’t do the thing you did just for him. It doesn’t matter what it was. The high he gets for making people bow before him will wear off, he will be unfulfilled and he will blow up at you.
Everybody in sports should understand this, because Trump loves to use sports as a cultural wedge. He has done it before and he will do it again. So pay attention, Roger Goodell and Rob Manfred and Charlie Baker and Adam Silver and Jay Monahan. Regardless of your political beliefs, this Elon Musk–Trump brawl is instructive.
