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Delta Flight To MLB Game Without Encountering Any Diehard Trump Supporters: Travel Paradise?

Maybe there is some kind of perverse logic behind Donald Trump’s choice of Easter weekend to release a hate-filled analog tweet to promote his election lies and trash Delta Air Lines, Major League Baseball, and Coke.

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No one has ever encountered a white dude in a red MAGA hat and walked away thinking, What a charming man!

That being the case, for purely selfish reasons, I’m kind of hoping that Donald Trump’s remaining supporters take his latest moronic outburst seriously and do go ahead and boycott Delta Airlines, Major League Baseball, and, I guess, Coca-Cola. I have no particular problem with any of these companies. On the contrary, I’ve been known to fly Delta, I certainly take in the occasional Major League Baseball game, and I’m partial to Cherry Coke.

But can you imagine taking a flight, and knowing in advance that some screaming, red-faced baby boomer will not hold up the boarding line so he can argue with the flight attendant about the airline’s mask policy? Or sitting in the cool breeze on a lovely spring day, watching America’s pastime, maybe sipping a Coke, without any chance at all of a section of the crowd starting to chant “U.S.A.!” for no particular reason? It sounds great.

If you need a little more background here, know that for many Christian denominations, Easter is the most important holiday of the year. So, given his popularity with white evangelicals, maybe there is some kind of perverse logic behind Donald Trump’s choice of Easter weekend to release a hate-filled analog tweet to promote his election lies and trash Delta Air Lines, Major League Baseball, and Coke.

Trump asked his supporters to boycott a bunch of other companies too, but I’m not going to list them all. Who can keep track? The number of companies Trump has asked his supporters to boycott is well into the dozens at this point, even though his previous requests for boycotts seem to have done nothing (I’m pretty confident that most Trump supporters aren’t going to have ready mental access on every single shopping trip to a list of dozens of huge, complicated corporate entities and what hand each might have had in producing any given product). Surely the irony of complaining about “WOKE CANCEL CULTURE” in a statement calling for boycotts was lost on Trump too.

Trump’s problem with these organizations was that they joined a group of over 100 companies to publicly denounce Georgia’s heinous new voter suppression law, which was shoved through by Republican state legislators pouting over Democrats’ recent gains in Georgia. Among other things, the law shortens the time voters have to ask for an absentee ballot, reduces or eliminates easy ways for voters to deliver their ballots, like drop boxes and mobile voting centers, expands early voting in more rural communities but not in more urban ones (gee, I wonder who that’s targeting?), and makes it a crime to offer food or water to people waiting in line to vote. Noted villain Mitch McConnell also threatened businesses with “serious consequences” for speaking out against voter suppression, although it was unclear how he intended to carry out the threat from his new position as Senate Minority Leader.

Just to recap, Trump told his supporters that they are the good guys in boycotting companies because the companies said it was bad to make it illegal to give someone a bottle of water while they are standing in line to vote in the hot Georgia sun. Anyone who actually believes this would be an absolute nightmare to have on a flight.

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You know, I’ve somehow managed to hang on to a handful of Trump-supporting friends (they must not read my column). But if you’re just rolling the dice on a stranger in a public setting who you’re going to have to tolerate being in proximity to for several hours, well, I like my odds a lot better in the midst of a serious boycott from really committed Trump supporters. So go for it, Trumpers! Get us liberals real good as things open up again: don’t go to a single baseball game this whole summer! In fact, people are saying that ice cream parlors, zoos, and that bar I like with the veranda out front are all really woke too. Best avoid them, just in case.

Jonathan Wolf is a civil litigator and author of Your Debt-Free JD (affiliate link). He has taught legal writing, written for a wide variety of publications, and made it both his business and his pleasure to be financially and scientifically literate. Any views he expresses are probably pure gold, but are nonetheless solely his own and should not be attributed to any organization with which he is affiliated. He wouldn’t want to share the credit anyway. He can be reached at [email protected].

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