Bon Jovi, the Bills and Operation Big Tree: Inside Trump's Plot to Buy an NFL Team

PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

Before he came down the golden escalator, Donald Trump was desperate to own a pro-football franchise on the cheap. So he dispatched a political emissary with a mission for five mischievous super-fans: ban Bon Jovi from Buffalo, so that Trump could purchase the Bills instead of him. Correspondent Noah Shachtman travels to an alternate universe where, associates say, Trump would have occupied the owner's box instead of the Oval Office — and finds evidence, on a literal bridge of the American divide, that we're still halfway there.

Read the companion article at Rolling Stone:

Is Trump's Whole Political Career Just a Cockeyed Revenge Plot Against the NFL?

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Before he came down the golden escalator, Donald Trump was desperate to own a pro-football franchise on the cheap. So he dispatched a political emissary with a mission for five mischievous super-fans: ban Bon Jovi from Buffalo, so that Trump could purchase the Bills instead of him. Correspondent Noah Shachtman travels to an alternate universe where, associates say, Trump would have occupied the owner's box instead of the Oval Office — and finds evidence, on a literal bridge of the American divide, that we're still halfway there.

Read the companion article at Rolling Stone:

Is Trump's Whole Political Career Just a Cockeyed Revenge Plot Against the NFL?

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2024-09-20 50 min
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