Donald Trump, who once ruined an entire football league, thinks he could have helped the Jets

Donald Trump never passes up an opportunity to take a swing at Jeb Bush. The latest attempt was a degree-of-separation thing involving Jets’ owner Woody Johnson.

Johnson is serving as finance chairman for Jeb Bush, whose campaign is going less-than-well. Solid swing by Trump. It’s the second part where things get a little iffy. You see, it’s Trump’s assertion that the Jets would have been in the playoffs “at least,” if Johnson was Trump’s finance chairman. It makes no sense logically, but let’s suspend that for a second.

Brass tacks: Let’s check out Trump’s football resume.

That’s right. Trump owned the New Jersey Generals in 1983 and successfully lobbied to have his fellow owners move the USFL season from Spring to Fall in 1986. It was a move that took a small, secondary league out of its niche and put it head-to-head with a juggernaut. It folded in 1987.

Yes, that’s three dollars and seventy-six cents. That’s not missing a million or a billion. The league contested that the NFL was a monopoly and that’s why the USFL couldn’t thrive. The judge awarded the USFL a lot less than they wanted. By the tune of many, many decimal places.

Trump was hoping to buy the Bills in 2014 when they went on the market, but was eventually outbid by Terry Pegula. The team sold for $1.4 billion. Trump called the price “ridiculous,” while the value of the Bills has increased 50 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to Forbes.