NFL Owners Should Stand Up to Donald Trump on National Anthem Protests

With his threat at the United Nations this past week to “totally destroy” North Korea if necessary, and his labeling of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a “Rocket Man” on a “suicide mission,” President Donald Trump escalated his war of words with a country flirting with a nuclear strike. Few world leaders at the General Assembly cheered him. On Friday, Trump got his applause — by hurling his “tough” talk at America’s de facto national pastime, NFL football. At a rally in Huntsville, Ala., in support of Republican Senator Luther Strange, Trump cursed some of its players, and mocked the game itself: “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, he’s fired. He’s fired!” The crowd roared. This season NFL players, like Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett and Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch, have continued the national anthem protests started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — who’s now unemployed — a year ago. Trump encouraged fans to boycott the NFL. “If you see it, even one player, leave the stadium,” Trump told the crowd. “I guarantee things will stop. Things will stop. Just pick up and leave.” Trump's comments in Alabama tonight on the NFL's rule changes and ongoing anthem prot...
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