It’s probably hard to turn down the president of the United States when he invites you to do something, like helping him practice to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game or join him on the links for a round of golf. Nonetheless, people should resist this because pictures are forever, and Mariano Rivera and Brett Favre just voluntarily wound up posing with a man whose future reputation will be as toxic as a Nazi leader in postwar Germany.

Maybe Brett Favre is okay will forcibly locking children in cages after separating them from their parents. Maybe he just enjoys a nice Republican tax cut. What his NFL teammates will remember, however, is that he went golfing with the country’s most notorious anti-black racist in the middle of his campaign for reelection.

New York City just painted ‘Blacks Lives Matter’ on the street in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan to drive home the point that we have a Klansman in the White House. Brett Favre didn’t get the point. Everyone who associates positively with Donald Trump comes away a loser, and that’s never been more true than now.

He’s also in the midst of overseeing an unnecessarily lethal mass-death event and an economic catastrophe that has cost tens of millions of people their jobs and will soon put them on the street without a home. If you golf with him in this midst of this, that’s a silent endorsement of his laziness, his policies, his performance, and his reelection. It’s insane to put your own reputation through that kind of meat grinder.

When the president calls, it’s best to let it go to voicemail.