UPDATED: Trump: NFL Stars 'Shouldn't Be in the Country' if They Don't Stand for National Anthem

[DonViejo]

Last edited Thu May 24, 2018, 08:48 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: The Daily Beast


Donald Trump told Fox & Friends on Thursday morning that NFL stars should stand “proudly” for the national anthem before football games. He welcomed the NFL’s new rules imposing fines for teams allowing players to kneel on the field, but criticized allowing dissenting stars to remain in the locker room. “I don’t think people should be staying in locker rooms, but still it’s good. You have to stand proudly, or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there, maybe shouldn’t be in the country.”

Link to tweet

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UPDATE

Trump Fires Back at Comey: How Will He Explain ‘Lies’ and ‘Deceit’ to His Grandchildren?

by Ken Meyer | 7:43 am, May 24th, 2018

President Trump swung back at James Comey on Wednesday after the former FBI director slammed him for his evidence-free accusations about the “criminal deep state” and his campaign being spied on by the FBI in 2016.

As Trump flings his “SpyGate” allegations left and right, Comey got on Twitter yesterday to condemn attacks on the FBI while lamenting that the country is “led by those who will lie about anything, backed by those who will believe anything.” Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade asked Trump about this, noting Comey’s tweet asking, “How will Republicans explain this to their grandchildren?” Trump fired back in kind, and said that firing Comey was a “great service” to the country.

“How is he going to explain to his grandchildren all of the lies, the deceit, all of the problems he has caused for this country? I think of the things that I’ve done for the country, the firing of James Comey is going to go down as a very good thing. The FBI is great. I know so many people in the FBI. The FBI is a fantastic institution, but some of the people at the top were rotten apples. James Comey was one of them. I’ve done a great service for this country by getting rid of him, by firing him.”

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-says-he-did-great-service-by-firing-comey-how-will-he-explain-lies-to-his-grandchildren/

[keroro gunsou]

1. um, no...

the nfl owners caved to the god emperor. plain and simple.

[PJMcK]

2. Stop playing the National Anthem before sporting events

It makes no sense whatsoever.

There is nothing patriotic about a football game or a baseball game. Except for the Super Bowl and the World Series, TV broadcasts rarely even show the performance of the song.

Why don't they sing it before the State of the Union address? Or before the presidential inauguration?

This is a stupid issue.

And Trump is an idiot.

[dlk]

3. So, Out of Respect, Will Sports Venues Cease Concession Sales During the National Anthem?

If this is how the NFL wants to play it, the requirement to stop everything and stand during the national anthem should be global throughout the sports industry and all venues, not just enforced for the athletes. Otherwise, this new rule makes them look like partisan hypocrites. Of course, global enforcement would make them look like fascists who don't support the Constitution.

[greymattermom]

4. I love that idea.

Just go up to the front of the line of the nearest concession stand and stand at attention with your hand over your heart while the national anthem is playing. This should be a national movement. Who would complain?

[pstokely]

23. will they lock the bathrooms also?

?

[Zoonart]

5. America, love it or leave it!

Been here before, but because of protesting war... not taking a knee at a football game ...a protest that is still respectful at the same time.

This is an authoritarian, racist reactionby the NFL , to the actions of concerned black men exercising their constitutional right to protest. Red meat for his racist base. PERIOD!

[Chemisse]

6. So what's the next filth out of his mouth? Send all AAs back to Africa?

I would not be surprised at all.

[dalton99a]

16. +1. Not a whistle, but a loudspeaker

[muntrv]

7. Says Putin's Puppet.

[DiverDave]

8. First,they came

For the Jews...

[riversedge]

9. msnbc discussing this vile comment. Not good to say the least.

[DFW]

10. I HAVE to stand proudly?

When he and half his cabinet are wearing prison uniforms in five years, will they stand equally as proudly?

[jmowreader]

11. So now we've become Soviet Russia

Maybe Trump shouldn’t be in this country if he thinks like that.

[AllaN01Bear]

12. for a guy who dogged the draft and never served this is pathetic.

and now hes patriotic. umbriago.

[Initech]

13. Such utter bullshit.

[BendigoJeff]

14. I thought America was Land of the Free...

[DFW]

15. I remember the first time one of my children attended school in the USA

It was 11th grade in a public high school in Dallas. Displays of extremist nationalism are looked down upon in Germany for obvious reasons, so when the kids stood up every morning and started some ritual chanting, she was baffled at what was going on and why. I asked if she was adjusting OK and had any questions. She said she found the ritual chanting weird. I had no idea what she meant by that. This was a Texas public school, not a Buddhist monastery. I asked her what they were chanting, and she said most of it was mumbled indistinctly, as if they were very bored by it, but it started out with "I spread the peaches."

I was lost until she said they put their hands on their chests while chanting. Then I got it. I asked, "could they be chanting, "I pledge allegiance?" Her English was good, but since the words "pledge" and "allegiance" usually don't enter the vocabulary of a 16 year old, she didn't know what they meant. So she just heard the English words closest to what she knew. And considering the non-existent enthusiasm of school kids that are forced to recite this EVERY day, they might just as well have been chanting, "I spread the peaches."

Actually, THESE days, the only thing I'd pledge if still lived in the States would be this:

I pledge no credence to the bag
Of lies Fox tells to America
And to the injustice, for which it stands,
One station, shunned by God, indefensible,
With Hannity, disgusting for all.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. I stopped flying the American flag on the day Bush invaded Iraq. I

stopped saying "under God" in the pledge 20 years ago. I will never stand for the anthem again.

[world wide wally]

18. As long as you stand for the Anthem, it is fine to trash the Constitution...

just not the 2A.

[yallerdawg]

19. Racist effing pig of a sub-human playing to the deplorables.

Make America great again by removing his ass from office.

[Wuddles440]

20. What's even more ironic...

is the video of President Bone Spurs displaying this "patriotism" by absolutely butchering the words (at least the few that he recalled) to the National Anthem. Also, where was all the outrage when Tim Tebow was kneeling to pray? Oh, that's right - he's a "christian", white guy.

[BlueStater]

21. Never hated a human being so much in my life.

I have fantasies of this asshole walking down Air Force One, tripping, and then breaking his fucking neck.

[Solly Mack]

22. Piece of shit, racist petty tyrant.

Every single day he remains in office is a day more damage is done.

Not all damage can be undone.

[cntrfthrs]

24. What moral authority gives this euro the right...

to say who does or doesn't belong in this country?...As an indigenous native person, I say this orange pervert should leave my beautiful country...