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NFL team owners are hesitant to stop their players from kneeling in protest during the national anthem because “they’re afraid of their players,” President Donald Trump said Wednesday, insisting that they should nonetheless ban the practice league-wide.

“I have so many friends that are owners. And They’re in a box. I mean, I’ve spoken to a couple of them. They say, ‘we are in a situation where we have to do something,’” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” that was taped Wednesday and aired Thursday morning. “I think they're afraid of their players, you want to know the truth, and I think it's disgraceful. And they’ve got to be tough and they’ve got to be smart.”

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“The NFL cannot disrespect our country. They cannot disrespect our flag or our national anthem. And they can't have people sitting down or kneeling down during our national anthem,” the president said. “I’ve seen a couple stadiums over the last few weeks, there are a lot of empty seats. I couldn't even believe it. But When it comes to the respect of our nation, when it comes to the respect of our anthem and our flag, they have no choice. You have to have people stand with respect.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/28/trump-nfl-owners-controversy-243245

The dog whistles are deafening atp.

 

[Steel]

Well... He's technically not wrong. NFL owners are not good people, though.

 

[tycoonheart]

Owners know its the players making them the money.

 

[Transistor]

Duh

 

[giancarlo123x]

Trump is a fucking joke with too much free time on his hand to still be talking about this.

 

[Kill Your Masters]

Well they fucking should be.

Trump is an shitty cartoon villain boss who thinks he does people a favor if he employes them.

 

[Bisnic]

This whole story is mindblowing for me.
Why does it matter so much how people position themselves for a national anthem? If I was watching a hockey match in Montreal and the canadian national anthem was playing and I want to stay sitting on my seat, no one would bat an eye.

 

[Patryn]

I'm guessing he's seen pictures of the LA and 49er's stadiums and totally misunderstanding WHY those seats are empty.

 

[theechrisfox]

Weaaa weaaa they wouldn't let me join the club but I still need to dictate new rules to their sporting league.

 

[PandaPandaPanda]

Trump is a fucking joke with too much free time on his hand to still be talking about this.

bu bu bu bu glorious orange leader said he is working all the time, so how can he have so much free time then

/s

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

The players are why there are teams, and the teams are why people come and spend money.

 

[Bronx-Man]

It’s the other way around. If NFL players had more power like NBA stars do, they would’ve skipped the meaningless platitudes on unity and told Trump to fuck off personally.

 

[Abstrusity]

This whole story is mindblowing for me.
Why does it matter so much how people position themselves for a national anthem? If I was watching a hockey match in Montreal and the canadian national anthem was playing and I want to stay sitting on my seat, no one would bat an eye.

You know how people say "It's american as baseball or apple pie?"

Well football has replaced that.

Now it's more "American as Football, opiate addiction, or hating people darker than alabaster"

Which, to be fair, the latter has always been there, it's just gone unsaid.

 

[Karkador]

This is something you say about out of control kids, or dogs, not grown men.

They are "owned" though, I guess is what Trump is trying to say.

 

[NeOak]

I'm guessing he's seen pictures of the LA and 49er's stadiums and totally misunderstanding WHY those seats are empty.

Care to explain why for someone that doesn't follow the sport?

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

This whole story is mindblowing for me.
Why does it matter so much how people position themselves for a national anthem? If I was watching a hockey match in Montreal and the canadian national anthem was playing and I want to stay sitting on my seat, no one would bat an eye.

Because MURICA.

Care to explain why for someone that doesn't follow the sport?

Because Football just isn't big in California. The 49ers are terrible, as are the Chargers and Rams, and nobody wants to see a shitty team.

 

[DarkJediKnight]

“I have so many friends that are owners. And They’re in a box. I mean, I’ve spoken to a couple of them. They say, ‘we are in a situation where we have to do something,’” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” that was taped Wednesday and aired Thursday morning. “I think they're afraid of their players, you want to know the truth, and I think it's disgraceful. And they’ve got to be tough and they’ve got to be smart.”

This sounds like something a Slave Owner would say.

It really gives you an insight into this man's mind. He called black people "the blacks" and "look at my black friend over there".

He really sees african americans as inferiors in every way, as in a master and slave type relationship.

 

[DogDude]

Well yeah

 

[Interframe]

Why in the fuck is he so concerned about a business he doesn't run? Your're running a god damn country, shut the fuck up about some sports league you have nothing to do with and do your fucking job! Ffs there are people in Puerto Rico who are suffering and here he is just proudly wanting the world to know how racist he is.

 

[Pagusas]

I'll be very curious to see what happens in Green Bay tomorrow, with Aaron Rodgers asking the fans to take part as well.

Edit: Tonight actually on Thursday Night Football

 

[Izuna]

Is he acting like a dictator here?

 

[plagiarize]

Land of the free. Of course they can disrespect the country if they wanted to.

I mean, that's not what they're doing, but they totally 100% can, no matter how fragile your ego is 45.

 

[slit]

I couldn't even believe it. But When it comes to the respect of our nation, when it comes to the respect of our anthem and our flag, they have no choice. You have to have people stand with respect.”

Evidently they do, although I'm sure he'd love nothing more than to arrest them.

 

[VariantX]

Meanwhile, hes barely said anything about Puerto Rico and the potential crisis happening to fellow American citizens. He is just laser focused on his scaredy-cat rich friends.

 

[zeemumu]

Shame that he shows more investment in stopping football players from kneeling than he does in stopping white supremacists from forming torch mobs.

 

[Deaf Spacker]

Why is he still banging on about NFL players taking a knee, is something about to drop?

 

[Loudninja]

Oh give me a damn break, the NFL players do their job unlike you.

Oh but those first 4 or 5 minutes really burn racist people up.

 

[Shadybiz]

Is there something else that you could be focusing on right now, Don? Something about an island or something?

 

[RinsFury]

I never would have imagined we'd be living in a time where the President was this petty and moronic. Thanks republicans.

 

[Travo]

Sigh....yet, Puerto Rico.

 

[entremet]

Man, this guy is obsessed with this.

 

[facelike]

Why in the fuck is he so concerned about a business he doesn't run? Your're running a god damn country, shut the fuck up about some sports league you have nothing to do with and do your fucking job! Ffs there are people in Puerto Rico who are suffering and here he is just proudly wanting the world to know how racist he is.

He's just trying to excite his racist base and draw attention from Russia stuff. Race baiting is the easiest option for his base to roll with.

Just hope it backfires but not expecting it to do so.

 

[nded]

Pretty fucking chilling that the President of the United States thinks it's bad that NFL franchise owners don't have complete and utter dominion over players.

 

[WordsintheWater]

The President of the United States still concerning himself with what happens in the NFL is all kinds of ridiculous.

 

[JustenP88]

Man, sounding more and more like some wannabe slavery shit to him everyday.

 

[Pagusas]

Why is he still banging on about NFL players taking a knee, is something about to drop?

Trump badly wanted to be an NFL owner. He's been prevented several times from it.

 

[Htown]

This whole story is mindblowing for me.
Why does it matter so much how people position themselves for a national anthem? If I was watching a hockey match in Montreal and the canadian national anthem was playing and I want to stay sitting on my seat, no one would bat an eye.

It doesn't. People are using it as an excuse because they don't like what's being protested. It's the same reason you got all the "all lives matter" nonsense when BLM started up, it's the same reason you get "what about black on black crime" and all that nonsense.

 

[Karkador]

Is he acting like a dictator here?

In terms of micromanaging the country and trying to make himself a bigger authority than the first amendment for the hundredth time? Probably, yeah.

 

[Crazyorloco]

How is this still news? I can't with this all. So many other things happening in the world lol trump needs to get out. I don't remember so much bull shit from the last 10 presidents we have had.

This all makes me angry lol

 

[Patryn]

Care to explain why for someone that doesn't follow the sport?

For the 49ers: The people who designed the stadium did a shit job, so one side of the stadium is just getting FRIED by the sun. To the point that they're already talking about ways to provide some shade for the seats Also, they're fucking terrible right now.

For the Chargers and Rams, you have the double factor that the teams aren't great combined with the fact that (especially for the Chargers) nobody asked for this. The one team that LA seems to really love is the Raiders, and they got denied so they're heading off to Vegas. Hell, even the mayor of LA basically said he had no idea why the Chargers were moving to LA and he didn't think there was the support for the team needed.

LA had long been a threat against cities so that teams would get stadiums, but a lot of people forget that LA has had a lot of teams in the past, but they all moved. It may just be that LA doesn't really care about football.

 

[slit]

How is this still news? I can't with this all. So many other things happening in the world lol trump needs to get out. I don't remember so much bull shit from the last 10 presidents we have had.

This all makes me angry lol

Trump is stoking the fire on purpose because it plays to his fake patriotic base AND keeps attention away from much more pressing issues.

 

[Ouroboros]

People are dying in Puerto Rico, lets talk about football, yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

 

[zeemumu]

Why is he still banging on about NFL players taking a knee, is something about to drop?

 

[Karkador]

Shame that he shows more investment in stopping football players from kneeling than he does in stopping white supremacists from forming torch mobs.

The disparity is fucking disgusting. And he's not even right about the NFL protests.

 

[jfkgoblue]

Care to explain why for someone that doesn't follow the sport?

Because LA fans are awful and it was incredibly stupid for these owners to chase them when we all know that there was a reason the NFL left LA.

 

[shira]

Trump badly wanted to be an NFL owner. He's been prevented several times from it.

member the usfl

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Afraid of their players being hired by other teams, more like.

 

[Diprosalic]

People are dying in Costa Rica, lets talk about football, yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Costa Rica?

 

[Shadybiz]

People are dying in Costa Rica, lets talk about football, yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Puerto Rico. Unless there's something going on in Costa Rica that I didn't know about.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Costa Rica?

I'm sure somebody in Costa Rica died recently.