February 2025

SL Satire

Call it our own project 2025. Satire, by most any definition, holds up a mirror to society for the purpose of throwing eggs (overpriced and otherwise) at those who deserve a good egging. Since our politics have become the new bloodsport, we at Sport Literate see nothing wrong with a little mockery. Remember, it’s satire. Please don’t sue, shoot, or lose your shit over it.

“F Troop” was, according to Wikipedia, “an American television Western sitcom about U.S. soldiers and American Indians in the Wild West during the 1860s.” That whacky premise could have paved the way for a sitcom in a German P.O.W. camp, starring Bob Crane, a wisecracking sex addict. “F. Trump,” for us, could mean many things, including the grade we’d give for the now two-time president.

Some of us have grown old in the Trump Era — now about a decade and counting. As exhausting as the news can be, we will not turn an Oath Keeper’s blind eye to the maniacal rule that threatens to send us back decades. When they’re citing President Andrew Jackson as the gold standard, we could all be effed.

It might be easier to poke fun at the absurdity reflecting back at us from a funhouse mirror. Certainly the late-night comedians often tell variations on the same joke. But we’re taking our own swing at it. If only for historical purposes and the possibilities of a child years down the road asking his mother, “What did Grandma and Grandpa do to resist Trump 2.0?”

In our first multimedia installment, we offer “Mourning in America,” a parody of the Ronald Reagan election commercial from the 1980s. Check it out here.