Jaxson Dart’s Warm Welcome to Trump Sends the Left Into Madness
Dart should understand, especially because of his football days at “Ole Miss,” “what it is to be black in America,” “the poverty you face,” “the pressure you face.”
NFL quarterback Jaxson Dart was selected by the New York Giants in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft. His long record of triumphs on the football field — from his standout high school career to his rise as an elite college quarterback and eventual NFL draft selection — has made him a celebrated figure among football fans.
But after Dart’s warm introduction of President Donald Trump at a rally in Suffern, New York, on Friday, it remains unclear how long his supporters on the Left will continue to embrace him. Judging from the firestorm triggered by his brief remarks, he may have caused lasting damage to the admiration his liberal fans once had for him. And that’s a problem in deep blue New York.
“What an honor, what a privilege it is to be here,” he told the crowd. “And without further ado, I’m grateful, I’m honored, I’m pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump.”
The pile-on was instant. Dart’s respectful, 15-second welcoming statement to the U.S. president had made national headlines. One after the other, Democrats raged in social media posts and videos about his terrible lapse in judgment. Even the New York Times joined the fray.
And three days later, their anger still burns.
NOW: New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart introduces President Trump before his speech in New York. pic.twitter.com/3yBEppRAWr
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 22, 2026
Dart’s teammate and friend, linebacker Abdul Carter, was the first to pounce. “Thought this s— was AI, what we doing man,” he wrote on X.
thought this sh!t was AI, what we doing man https://t.co/ePR3b4MZEv
— Abdul Carter (@1NCRDB1) May 23, 2026
In a later post, Carter wrote, “Me & JD6 are good! We spoke earlier as Men. Yall can keep yall narratives.”
While many X users criticized Carter for putting Dart on “public blast” before speaking to him, others cited his original post as evidence that Dart was now racist — like Trump.
Me & JD6 are good! We spoke earlier as Men. Yall can keep yall narratives.
— Abdul Carter (@1NCRDB1) May 23, 2026
Perhaps the angriest “fan” of all was not even a New Yorker, but a California trial lawyer named Mitch Jackson who took to Twitter on Saturday to express his utter disgust over Dart’s remarks. In one post, he wrote, “Hey @JaxsonDart and @Giants, you just lost a fan. Actually, it’s probably more like hundreds of thousands or millions of fans after they see this pathetic and disgusting endorsement of a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual predator who is destroying America.”
From there, his posts kept coming. His anti-Trump messages and reposts continued all day Saturday and Sunday. Does he not have anything better to do on a holiday weekend?
At any rate, one of Jackson’s reposts was a four-minute rant of a likeminded Leftist who said, although Dart has the right to speak his mind, his introduction at the rally was “a horrible, horrible, horrible locker room move.” According to this man, Dart should understand, especially because of his football days at “Ole Miss,” “what it is to be black in America,” “the poverty you face,” “the pressure you face.”
What quickly became apparent was the Grand Canyon-sized disconnect between Dart’s brief introductory remarks at the rally and the Democrats’ wildly disproportionate reaction to them.
Well said. 👇 pic.twitter.com/Mo6op3TUdX
— Mitch Jackson, Esq. (@mitchjackson) May 24, 2026
It was as though, by introducing the president at a political rally, Dart had suddenly become personally responsible for every misstep, perceived or real, Trump had ever made. It was quite a leap!
The overblown reaction to Dart’s innocuous remarks reflects the kind of behavior commonly associated with the later stages of Trump Derangement Syndrome. The backlash was deeply unfair and utterly detached from reality. It was the political equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack open a walnut.
If this episode proves anything, it is that, for many on the Left, even the most routine interaction with Donald Trump has become grounds for public shaming and moral outrage. Dart did not deliver a fiery political speech, endorse controversial policies, or attack anyone. He simply introduced a former and current president at a rally with the kind of courtesy one would expect from a professional athlete representing a major franchise. Yet critics reacted as though he had committed an unforgivable offense. The sheer intensity of the backlash says far more about them than it does about Dart.
In the end, Dart himself had the last laugh. Asked if he was worried about losing fans over his support for Trump, he replied, “I don’t think many blue hairs watch the NFL if we’re being honest.”
It’s nuts that an American athlete loves his American president and the radical Dems hate him for that reason. If we normalize what Dems push this nation will not thrive
— ZIONATION (@ZionNation212) May 24, 2026
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Segregation needs to happen until minorities learn to assimilate.
It appears to me that blacks don’t want to coexist with anyone, especially with their own kind.
Exactly. Too much power and profit doing the opposite.
I once had a man from Washington State look me straight in the eye and say (and I quote since the incident sticks in the memory), “You know, we all know you’re from Alabama but you seem really intelligent.” Life is full of memorable moments and that’s one of mine.
Stereotyping anyone is unfair and improper. We all, if we spend any time in the general society, surely know people who live by this principal.
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Why you came from UCLA! (Upper Corner of Lower Alabama) The OKC bombing opened may eyes as to the “intelligence” of people …other then them. Lest we forget the closet racism that came out over bussing in Boston. Trump isn’t a felon or rapist… period… full stop, All of that came from the New York Dems in NYC and Albany.
I remember Mark Steyn’s libel suit brought by the extinguished scientist Michael Mann in D.C. court….. Mann’s lawyer sealed his position as scum by asking Steyn if he had subbed in for the late Rush Limbaugh (R.I.P.)…Steyn proudly replied… “till his dying day”. The case eventually was won by Steyn when all of the underhanded lying by Mann and the lawyers came out.
According to what I just read a jury decided Steyn was at fault and awarded Mann 1 million, though this was later reduced to 5 K. Apparently it was punishment for his criticism of climate dogma.
Paraphrasing Scott Adams: Because the human brain is an incredibly powerful pattern matching engine, we are all inherently bigoted.
It takes real effort to resist it. Some make the effort. Some don’t.
Using judgment is not the same as being “judgmental”.
Tribalism and bigotry was part of the survival mechanism built into human nature. There’s no question about that. The question is whether the survival mechanism has REALLY outlived its usefulness, as the goo-goos insist that it has. Since Obama showed us how easy it is for even the basest idiot to relight embers that never go out, I’ve largely changed my mind on that.
You had me right up until principal.
The problem isn’t racism it’s the ghetto gangster culture that many blacks embrace. This won’t change until they accept responsibility for their own actions and do the work to achieve success.
Ghetto behavior provides society with racism…
Where is the Klan? Oh, yeah…white men quit doing that as it is unkind to Humans.
Ghetto culture does not want to abide…they DEMAND their pound of flesh.
I think it would depend on the black people you are talking about. Many have come around and turned on the Dems, and voted Trump, and switched Conservative. Not all though, and much work needs to be done here, and most of what we are seeing now comes from feral kids that come from single moms gaming the welfare system, and this needs to stop. Fatherless kids needs to stop. That is a big part of the problem as well.
Let the D’s rage on bc fun to watch.
“We spoke earlier as Men.”
Isn’t this what you attorneys call citing facts not in evidence?
Sometimes (ok, 99.9% of the time) the first thought that crosses your mind should not be the words you type on your keyboard, let alone the words that you send into the ether.
Donald Trump falls short of the glory of God, we all do. But at this point, it should be plainly apparent that we’re not going to die in a nuclear war or starve in a famine or any other cataclysm.
And those who have gone off their medications and can’t help but embarrass themselves on social media deserve the ridicule due to the fools that they are.
Yoda said it best. I’ll just paraphrase here;
The path to the dark side is troubling,
Fear leads to Anger
Anger leads to Hate
Hate brings misery and suffering.
The left is truly full of fear, anger and hate.
The Left’s Ten Commandments are The Seven Deadly Sins.
That gives them three wobblers they can rewrite whenever they need one. You’d think that should be enough. What a racket.
The insane leftists screaming Dart should be fired are THE EXACT SAME CREW whining that Colbert was ‘censored’.
The vile, stupid and evil communist/Islamofascist Dhimmi-crats are the biggest and most gleeful, hate-filled and inveterate bigots and racists, around.
For a nice encapsulation of Arab Muslim racism that is given a total pass, by the vile Dhimmi-crats, much as black American Jew-hate is, I witnessed a presumably Arab Muslim man get into a traffic altercation with a black driver, on the streets of D.C., earlier this year, with the Muslim man cursing the black driver, before he drove off:
“F*** you, n****r, I’ll send you to Jesus!”
Arab Muslims’ ugly racism and religious supremacism, encapsulated in one despicable statement.
They have nothing better to do and generally are the epitome of what they criticize. Stupid TDSers cannot grasp that Trump is actually a decent human being and if they had laid off even a little they would have realized some of their aims. And here we are.
Golly gee, a pro athlete goes to a political event and introduced the POTUS… the horror. Can’t wait to hear from all the wokiesta leftist d/prog how they are now 100% opposed to athletes, pro sport leagues, entertainers of any sort daring to weigh in on political messages of any type during their performances (non political events) to inflict their political philosophy upon a captive audience. I didn’t have the d/prog embracing ‘shut up and sing’ on my 2026 bingo card.
The d/prog will only demand that conservatives shut the ef up. As long as all of the folks you listed are spouting d/prog nonsense, the d/progs will be all for it.
They’ll try but won’t find many takers outside their ideological bubble.
“Thought this s— was AI, what we doing man,” [Dart’s teammate and friend, linebacker Abdul Carter] wrote on X.
Please provide an English translation of this quote.
He thought the video was an AI fake because he didn’t believe his teammate would ever do something like that.
I don’t speak jive, but I DO admire that fine bitch Barbara Billingsley.
The left is so tiresome. If the didn’t have Trump to wail about they’d have to invent him.
Damn, that’s what the SPLC was for… before Trump pithed it.
Let’s be honest, it’s impossible for the Giants to lose “millions of fans”. You can’t lose what you don’t have.
If the Democrat standard is civility towards Republicans is anathema and anyone guilty of such a sin will be depersonned, then America is in trouble. The Right will have no option but to respond in kind, and then you end up with 2 societies which no longer have any financial, social etc connection with each other outside, maybe, sharing the same line when voting happens.
And when the ‘wrong side’ gets in, then the other side goes into resistance mode for the next 2 or 4 years.
From ‘fiery but peaceful’ things will swiftly move to firing and reloading. ACW2.0 because Democrats can’t help themselves!
For that, we can all thank the First RINO, who established the principle that people who decide they are Not Of The Body any longer with their countrymen cannot peacefully segregate and take their property with them… after explicitly saying it was their absolute right to do so.
May as well Embrace people you actually have value. The left certainly doesn’t and they’ll hate you no matter what
The amount of hate coming out of the mouths of so-called “democrats” is just mind-boggling to me. This man, Darts, says something nice about the President of the US, and those Democrats just go all out with hate-filled responses. They can’t seem to help themselves. As a former Democrat myself, I am SO glad that I left this delusional, hate-filled, socialist, anti-Semitic party, and I will never go back !
I’ve never really grasped the zeitgeist of the Woman Yelling at Cat meme, but this comes close to fitting what I see in it.
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