Season-Ending Jaxson Dart Injury Spurs Trump Curse Debate

New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart will miss the rest of the regular season after knee surgery for injuries sustained against the Los Angeles Rams. His injury has renewed online talk of a so-called “Trump curse,” a sports superstition that misfortune follows players or teams who receive President Donald Trump’s attention; one social media user had predicted Dart would be hurt months earlier. Dart introduced Trump at a New York rally in May, drawing criticism from some teammates, though he and linebacker Abdul Carter later said they had resolved their disagreement. Reactions to Dart’s injury have exposed partisan divisions, with some people mocking or celebrating it as political karma and others condemning those responses as cruel; there is no evidence that the supposed curse is real.