GOOD FOR DONALD – AT 12:31 P.M. ET:   Even before becoming president, Donald Trump is following an old presidential ritual.  From AP: 

NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is partaking in one of the nation's most storied football rivalries, saluting U.S. troops at the annual Army-Navy game on Saturday as he prepares to enter the White House.

The future commander-in-chief planned to attend the 117th game between the military academies at West Point and Annapolis, which is being held on relatively neutral ground, at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland.

Trump tweeted on Saturday morning that he was going to the game "as a show of support for our Armed Forces."

The appearance caps a week of rolling out Cabinet picks, holding "thank you" rallies in North Carolina, Iowa and Michigan, and trying to cement his incoming Senate majority with Saturday's runoff election in Louisiana.

The incoming president appeared jovial and relaxed as he plunged back into electoral politics on Friday, a full month after he won the presidency. He held large-scale events in Louisiana and in Michigan, where he regaled supporters in Grand Rapids by reciting his victories in battleground states.

Trump is the first Republican to win Michigan since George H.W. Bush in 1988. He attributed his feat to failures by Democrats.

COMMENT:  I believe that Field Marshal Obama went to one Army-Navy game.  I guess he thought it was beneath him.  Trump's attendance as president-elect sends a powerful message that, under his administration, the armed forces will be respected again.

December 10,  2016