{"id":218217,"date":"2025-08-07T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/218217\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:21:11","slug":"wnba-world-reacts-to-insane-donald-trump-caitlin-clark-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/218217\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA world reacts to insane Donald Trump, Caitlin Clark news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to argue there\u2019s a bigger star in North American sports than Indiana Fever phenom Caitlin Clark. However, some feel that the WNBA isn\u2019t doing enough to protect Clark from a \u201chostile environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Wall Street Journal opinion piece was recently released, opining that if the WNBA won\u2019t protect Clark, then the federal government should get involved to do so. Now, one prominent member of the sports mediasphere is saying that intervention from United States President Donald Trump isn\u2019t totally out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen A. Smith thinks Donald Trump could get involved calling for an investigation into Caitlin Clark\u2019s WNBA treatment. \u2018If he gets involved and that base gets involved, because somehow, some way they embrace victimhood on the part of Caitlin Clark it could be a problem,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported Awful Announcing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stephen A. Smith thinks Donald Trump could get involved calling for an investigation into Caitlin Clark&#8217;s WNBA treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he gets involved and that base gets involved, because somehow, some way they embrace victimhood on the part of Caitlin Clark it could be a problem.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TvEYNnqikY\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/TvEYNnqikY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1953470485855113223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People reacted to Smiths\u2019 take on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to keep politics out of sports,\u201d one person rote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump would only point out her haters don\u2019t like her because she is successful. She and he have that in common. Not a thing to do with race or victimhood,\u201d someone else added.<\/p>\n<p>Best believe the WH is looking at this, even tho Trump\u2019s (numbers) are still high amongst his supporters. The WH is looking for anything to distract from Epstein and the poor jobs (numbers),\u201d another person added.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be interesting to see if the President actually gets involved.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to argue there\u2019s a bigger star in North American sports than Indiana Fever phenom Caitlin Clark.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[38042,7,455,2322,459],"class_list":{"0":"post-218217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-awful-announcing","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-caitlin-clark","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-indiana-fever"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114989111064201013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}