The choice is controversial but his influence is “undeniable”: Donald Trump is 2017’s most powerful person in sport.
SportsBusiness Journal has made the US President number one on its list of the 50 most influential people in sports business thanks to his “angry, loud and visceral rhetoric” that has divided the industry and caused “massive reaction, response and reflection”.
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