LOLZ- Trump asked Lennox Lewis if he could beat Deontay Wilder.

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This week, President Trump found himself in the Oval Office playing host to Lennox Lewis, a former boxing champion, Sylvester Stallone, a fictional boxing champion, and Deontay Wilder, a current boxing champion. Trump had a question for the group. “Lennox,” he asked, “if I really went and started working out, could I take Deontay in a fight?” This was a joke, of course, but not a meaningless one. Sitting beneath the fighters, Trump seemed to want to remind them that he, too, thinks of himself as a fighter, or at least a fight fan. “This is forty-and-oh, thirty-nine knockouts,” he said, citing Wilder’s record. “Could I take him in a fight, if I really went to work?”

Lewis, who is famously gracious, offered his expert opinion. “You’d have to get past those long arms,” he said. This seemed to satisfy Trump, who moved on to his prepared topic: a Presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, the legendary boxer who became, in 1908, the first black heavyweight champion. Johnson was convicted, in 1913, of violating the Mann Act, which made it illegal to “transport” women or girls across state lines “for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.” Johnson was widely believed to have been convicted because he was black, and because the woman he was accused of transporting was white. Johnson fled America, but he returned in 1920, and surrendered; he served a year in prison. (Nine years later, in this magazine, James Thurber went to see him, and returned a mixed verdict: “He is not broke, but he is not affluent.”)

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https://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/donald-trump-the-fighter-in-chief-pardons-jack-johnson

P.S. The New Yorker is a magnificent magazine