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Source: Reuters
Trump slams NFL for not making players stand for anthem
Jonathan Allen
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the National Football League on Wednesday for not forcing players to stand for the national anthem, firing back after league officials meeting in New York chose instead to effectively back players right to political activism.
Total disrespect for our great country! tweeted Trump, who has repeatedly denounced players in the countrys most popular sports league as unpatriotic for kneeling during the anthem in a demonstration against racism.
After the first day of the NFLs two-day autumn meeting of team owners, players and their unions leaders in Manhattan, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters they talked about the issues that our players have been trying to bring attention to. About issues in our communities to make our communities better.
The small but growing number of players kneeling during the national anthem are protesting the killing by police of unarmed black men and boys across the United States, as well as racial disparities in the criminal justice system. More than half of all NFL players are black.
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Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He has nothing positive to offer so he keeps on going after the things that he knows will rile up his base: standing for the anthem, crooked Hillary, anything related to Obama, people with brown skin, non-christians, etc.
It's really getting boring and pretty soon, even his base is going to get bored with the same old shit day after day when they realize that their lives aren't getting any better.
Initech
(100,102 posts)It's almost as if Murdoch and co are intentionally manipulating the president. You can tell that whatever they talk about on Fox & Friends or Hannity is going to be what Trump tweets about within 1/2 an hour of what he watches. Someone really needs to take Fox away from him. Someone needs to smash a TV in front of him and force him to start really working for a change.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)Either the spir0chetes have bored holes in the last available bits of his brain, or Mr. Muller is so close that his breath is leaving a layer of steam on the back of the Dotard's neck.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)The owners of the football team, ah, don't own the players. What years are these old white people trying to re-live? I thought it was the 50 ?