LeBron James doesn’t need you to defend his intelligence and it doesn’t help, anyway

Over the weekend the President of the United States of America took time out from his busy schedule of golfing and grifting to call LeBron James dumb on Twitter. Fortunately Donald Trump could do so without disruption to another important aspect of his job, watching cable news for hours, because he was reacting to something he saw James say on TV.

The president’s typically-juvenile taunt was in response to James saying Trump is using sports to divide the country. This is obviously true.

It is the president’s political style to inflame the cultural wars, which have engulfed the NFL. Predictably, that league’s capitulation to the president’s authoritarian bullying only ensured that he will…