President Trump Tweets NFL Players ‘Standing With Locked Arms Is Good.’ They Were Protesting Him

President Donald Trump sent mixed messages about the kneeling movement sweeping the sports world — appearing to support some of the unprecedented solidarity among NFL players Sunday after he encouraged football fans to boycott games if players took part in the silent protest during the national anthem. Following early-morning tweets where he criticized the NFL’s ratings, Trump returned to Twitter Sunday afternoon after more than 100 football players linked arms or knelt during the anthem — a visually defiant moment in response to criticism from the President about similar protests started last year by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. “Great solidarity for our National Anthem and for our Country. Standing with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable. Bad ratings!” Trump tweeted. Great solidarity for our National Anthem and for our Country. Standing with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable. Bad ratings! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2017 The entire Pittsburgh Steelers team stayed in the locker room as the national anthem played Sunday before they played the Chicago Bears.”We’re not going to let divisive times or divisive individuals affect our agenda,” Steelers coach, Mike Tomlin, said before the game, according to the AP. The team’s decision was, according to Tomlin, “not to be disrespectful to the anthem but to remove ourselves from this cir...
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