Liberal Nonsense: Eric Trump Isn't a Cy Young Award Finalist Just Because He Isn't a Baseball Player

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America released its shortlist of finalists for the prestigious Cy Young Award, an honor given to the best pitchers in baseball, on November 4, 2019. This year’s shortlist included World Series pitchers Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander, as well as Charlie Morton, who pitches for the Tampa Bay Rays. Noticeably absent from the list: Eric Trump.

Liberal Trump detractors will say that Trump isn’t eligible for the prize since he has never pitched in Major League Baseball and is not in any sense a baseball player. This, however, is a sham of an argument that ignores the real reason why Trump wasn’t shortlisted for the Cy Young Award: the mainstream media’s consistent smear campaign against Trump’s efforts to make it onto the shortlist.

On her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow went so far as to say that the idea of Trump winning the Cy Young Award was “ridiculous” and that “the award is for baseball players, not the President’s idiot son, unless that idiot son plays baseball really well.” Maddow came right out and said what many liberals are thinking: Eric Trump doesn’t deserve the award just because he doesn’t play baseball.

This sort of mindset exemplifies America’s increasing breakage along partisan lines and shows that radical left Dems are now willing to put party over country and refuse Trump his rightful nomination for baseball’s most prestigious pitching honor. This split in American politics has emboldened liberals enough for them to come right out and say that they are willing to deny Trump the Cy Young nomination on the grounds of his lack of pitching ability with no legitimate reason to do so.

Perhaps even more worrying than the shocking treatment of Trump at the hands of the corrupt press is the fact that this is no isolated incident. With George W. Bush being denied the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Henry Kissinger losing this year’s Pulitzer Prize, is there any honor that the freedom-hating, award-granting elites are not willing to deny an American patriot?

We must stand up and say no longer will we tolerate the rulers of the free world being refused accolades on the basis of merit. For too long we have stood by and watched as Americans have been passed over for prize after prize, and for too long we have accepted the old excuse that a lack of meaningful contribution to a field means you don’t deserve that field’s highest honor. Today is the day that we join together and demand that the Baseball Writers’ Association of America add Eric Trump to the shortlist for the 2019 Cy Young Award.