Trump rips NFL, Nike in wake of Kaepernick ad

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill


BY BRETT SAMUELS - 09/05/18 09:46 AM EDT

President Trump on Wednesday blasted the NFL and Nike after the latter featured free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the face of its latest ad campaign, prompting anger from some conservatives.

Link to tweet

Trump told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that Nike sent a "terrible message" by using Kaepernick for its 30th anniversary of the "Just Do It" ad campaign.

The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback was the first NFL player to take a knee during the national anthem to protest social injustice, and has remained unsigned for nearly two years.

As numerous other players have continued to protest during the anthem, Trump has ripped the NFL. The president has called on protesting players to be fired, and suggested they don't belong in the country.

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[dalton99a]

1. How about you get off your knees from fellating Putin

[Botany]

4. Trump's stand for the flag meme is pure B.S.

Three web sites/twitter accounts Stand for the Flag, Stand for the Troops, and
Stand for the Anthem that Trump pushed last year were all out of St. Petersburg,
Russia.

[dalton99a]

5. Yep, it is a huge meme with Russian trolls

[Botany]

7. Part of Boss Putin's master plan ... divide and conquer

I know people who think that the NFL players kneeling is a real issue and they
both listen to Fox News and Russia all the time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmaker-russian-trolls-trying-to-sow-discord-in-nfl-kneeling-debate/2017/09/27/5f46dce0-a3b0-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?utm_term=.475f55aba58f

Washington Post, Lawmaker: Russian trolls trying to sow discord in NFL kneeling debate

[dalton99a]

9. +1. They have watched us for a long time and they know what buttons to push

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Photographic proof tRump is BS. While wearing flag pin in classroom full of flag examples.

[mpcamb]

23. Hey, kids! Don't copy his homework!

[Docreed2003]

2. I'm sure his hatred for the NFL

Has nothing to do with the fact the didn't want him in their club. Trump is such an infantile pos.

[Docreed2003]

3. Also, perhaps this diatribe would carry more weight

If it came from someone who could actually color the flag!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. NFL & Nike know that Grumpy Oldmen Party demographic is not the future. tRump clueless.

Mr minority president tRump: Keep destroying the Republicon Party and its newer version, the tRump-RubleCon Party.

(Democrats: Keep those two brands glued, screwed, riveted, and welded in the minds of all voters.)

[keithbvadu2]

10. This is how you honor the National Anthem and flag? Wander about while it is playing?

This is how you honor the National Anthem and flag? Wander about while it is playing?

The example shown by republicans.

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[keithbvadu2]

11. Flags

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[SWBTATTReg]

12. The goodness of America is coming back in spades...

witness the national anthem debate (taking a knee)...
the bakery debacle (refusing to bake a cake for gays)...
freedom of the press and 1st amendment rights...
libel laws protect our authors from a so called president gone nuts...
we're constantly fighting Gerrymandered maps for elections that repugs use to ensure their stay in office...
we'll never rest, never stop in resisting this illegal administration put in power by the manipulation of votes by
the Russians...
more and more people are stepping up and stating that this is wrong and adding their voices too...

[SDJay]

13. And That's Probably Exactly What

Nike foresaw with this. Easy bait for an idiot to give them more free publicity.

[truthisfreedom]

14. No doubt. The orange idiot is good for a few more million in advertising.

[Fred Sanders]

16. That Shitler would desperately do anything to hang on to his rapidly shrinking base and the

plummeting support of Independents is more than predictable, it is inevitable.

Free advertising for Nike? Maybe, but I give them the benefit of the doubt that they paid Colin his full contract for years because they wanted to do the right thing from the beginning.

Now, about those off shore low wage factories...

[SDJay]

18. Oh, I Believe That As Well.

I think there are plenty of folks at Nike who support Kaep. However, it's far from a coincidence IMO that this campaign coincides with the opening of football season. Last year, football literally became a political football, and Dump will latch onto ANYTHING that lets him kick slop on brown people, especially now as the walls are closing in on his dumb ass.

I don't think this is a cynical move on their part, but I do think it was obvious that the campaign would be given a boost by President Shit-for-Brains.

I'd also be curious to see their market demographics. I wonder if, for instance, their customers skew to the left/younger/etc. I don't know that many MAGAts, but those I do would have no reason to own Nikes given that none of them exercise at all. That's obviously anecdotal and perhaps painting with too wide a brush, but I have to think that Nike would be smarter than alienating a big chunk of their customer base.

[Initech]

15. You know who else forced their citizens to stand for the flag and anthem? The Nazis.

[Maxheader]

17. Keep it up traitor....

I wouldn't want professional athletes of any sport grouped against
me...They have media exposure and will go against you during the
run up to the mid terms...

So keep it up dementia boy...

[ProfessorGAC]

19. I Know He Doesn't Read

But, the ratings are not way down. Somebody print out the internet page and show him. Make him read it. Then he can STFU.

Four guys, THIS OFF SEASON, became the highest paid players at their position, EVER! Think owners that are losing money do that?

But, what would he know about running a successful business?

[murielm99]

20. He's always yapping about ratings.

He says the New York Times and the Washington Post are failing. Ratings are down for the NFL. Roseanne had such great ratings he called to congratulate her.

He thinks in TV terms and instant gratification. He is a baby.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Problem Is. . .

. . .NFL profits are still stratospheric, the NYT and WP both saw increases in circulation, particularly on-line and their ad rates went up.

For a person who was supposed to be a business mogul, he sure doesn't know how to interpret cash flow. Of course, that would explain going broke running a casino.

[Dave Starsky]

21. Trump has always found the NFL hard to watch.

Because he was a partner in a USFL team (Remember them? You are a true 80s kid if you do) that he tried to spin off to the NFL, and they told him to go fuck himself.

[JohnnyRingo]

22. So Trump bought his last pair of Nike athletic shoes.

and that brings his total number down to the zero pairs he already had. I wouldn't be surprised if his wife is shopping Amazon right now.

I think I'm going to boycott polo mallets to protest the 1%.

[jmowreader]

25. Nike makes golf shoes too

The only picture I could find of Trump playing golf that shows his shoes has him in FootJoys, but Nike sells a product he would buy.

[JohnnyRingo]

26. Well that outta break them.

If Trump and his golf buddies switch from Nikes to MacGregors they may have to rethink their business model. hahahaha

I do get what you mean.

[Grassy Knoll]

24. Please Melania. Get A Pair Of Nike's....

...And Do A Photo Shoot Pretending To Do Gardening.