While I’ve never been a fan of Fox News host Laura Ingraham, her shot at LeBron James after he waxed idiotic in criticism of Donald Trump and the political climate in America remains among my favorite takedowns of the self-anointed expert on all things “racist” and law enforcement of all time.

During an interview prior to the 2018 All-Star Game, which also included NBA star Kevin Durant, James opined:

The climate is hot. The number-one job in America, the appointed person is someone who doesn’t understand the people. And really don’t [sic] give a f**k about the people.

After describing James as “barely intelligible” and “ungrammatical,” Ingraham said:

It’s always unwise to seek political advice from someone who gets paid $100 million a year to bounce a ball. LeBron and Kevin, you’re great players but no one voted for you, millions elected Trump to be their coach.

So keep the political commentary to yourself or as someone once said, shut up and dribble.

That’s Hall of Fame stuff, right there.

'Shut up and dribble' — Fox News's Laura Ingraham to LeBron and Kevin Durant after their criticism of President Trump pic.twitter.com/0BlokQDIIl

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 16, 2018

Total humiliation, courtesy of Laura Ingraham.

So, what’s the NBA’s first active player worth more than $1 billion to do? Fear not, “GOAT” fans — just kidding; I’m pretty sure that no one reading this beatdown is a fan of the greatest philosopher of our time.

As reported by USA Today, a company co-founded by James that bills itself as an “athlete empowerment brand” has filed to trademark the phrase “Shut Up and Dribble.” According to the United States Trademark and Patent Office, the company Uninterrupted, Inc. filed the request early last week.

Uninterrupted, Inc. stated in the request that “Shut Up and Dribble” would be used for “downloadable virtual goods, namely, computer programs featuring footwear, clothing, headwear, eyewear, bags, sports bags, backpacks, sports equipment, art, toys, and accessories for use online and in online virtual worlds.”

The phrase would reportedly also be used on entertainment services such as videos, social media posts, music, and games.

“Shockingly,” Black-themed website The Root has some suggestions for how James could best put the phrase to work:

“The low-hanging fruit could be a line of apparel featuring the phrase next to pictures of various Fox personalities. Tucker Carlson’s unceasing I’m-dumb-and-punchable face? Shut up and dribble. Jeanine Pirro’s timeless did -somebody-fart-while-I-was-ranting mug? Shut up and dribble. You could buy the same fit for your metaverse avatar so people in the real world and the virtual one know not to come for you.”

C’mon. The egocentric, race-obsessed James would never stoop to any of the above, right? The hell he wouldn’t. Consider the following:

LeBron James Finds a New Way to Criticize the United States, While Remaining Quiet About China

Welp, It’s Official: Fans Tap LeBron James as ‘the Most Hated Player in the NBA’ — by a Long Shot

King of Fakers LeBron James Weighs in on Rittenhouse Testimony

The bottom line:

LeBron James is an egocentric jerk who stands atop his self-assigned pedestal and shoots his mouth off about all-things race, America’s law enforcement officers, and his utter disdain for the country that made him a billionaire — all the while flying wingman for China, not to mention remaining silent about the ChiComs’ China’s brutal genocide against the minority Uyghurs — and everything else about which he sees fit to run his hypocritical mouth, every time making an utter fool out of himself.

While Laura Ingraham’s admonition to James was to shut up and dribble, if it were up to me, I’d tell the know-it-all dribbler to just shut the hell up and go away. I hear the weather is nice in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, these days.

Maybe the Uyghurs could use a loudmouth king.