The week the banter died

Seemingly, the Trumpian dynamic has its limits.

Back in June, when Martin O’Neill agreed a new Ireland contract immediately after running into trouble over a little homophobic banter, I wondered if Donald Trump was renewing the licenses of football men, in the arena of the bantz.

I wrote: “There is a sense, out there, that Trump may just be redefining the whole business of ‘controvassy’. That controvassy may never be quite the same again once Trump is finished. In saying terrible, ridiculous, offensive things, and subsequently growing ever more popular with his flock, Trump is making us reconsider the merits of pure nonsense. And maybe making it harder to get worked up about the gaffes of football men.”