Bon Jovi, the Bills and Operation Big Tree: Inside Trump's Plot to Buy an NFL Team

Published: Sept. 20, 2024, 9 a.m.

Before he came down the golden escalator, Donald Trump was desperate to own a pro-football franchise on the cheap. So he dispatched a political emissary with a mission for five mischievous super-fans: ban Bon Jovi from Buffalo, so that Trump could purchase the Bills instead of him. Correspondent Noah Shachtman travels to an alternate universe where, associates say, Trump would have occupied the owner's box instead of the Oval Office \u2014 and finds evidence, on a literal bridge of the American divide, that we're still halfway there.\nRead the companion article at Rolling Stone:\nIs Trump's Whole Political Career Just a Cockeyed Revenge Plot Against the NFL?\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices