'If they don’t stand for their flag and stand strongly, I’d be very happy if they didn’t open,' Trump said of the NFL.
President Donald Trump called into Clay Travis’s Fox Sports radio show on Tuesday morning to talk about the impact of COVID-19 on sports, but he couldn’t resist hitting on his favorite topic: athletes protesting by kneeling during the national anthem.
After talking about Tom Brady’s move from the New England Patriots to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Trump discussed the NFL as a whole. He complimented the NFL and team owners for working with “government” to open their season safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but said that he’d rather there be no professional football this year if players choose to kneel during the anthem.
‘I hope they don’t open’“If they don’t stand for the national anthem, I hope they don’t open,” Trump said. While he hasn’t spoken to any owners about players kneeling during the national anthem, he said “they know my feelings very well, they’ve been expressed.” Trump complimented the NHL’s pregame social justice demonstration, which involved largely no kneeling from players and no Black Lives Matter messaging. MLB’s pregame demonstration involved all players kneeling, but not during the anthem, while the vast majority of NBA players kneeled and linked arms during the anthem. Trump said he didn’t like either one, but he took particular offense to the NBA, saying that their demonstrations were “very nasty” and that people were “angry” about it.
The NFL has yet to unveil any formal plans for organized pregame social justice demonstrations, though since the NBA, NHL, and MLB have all done something, it’s likely the NFL will follow suit. It’s unknown what NFL players might do individually during their first week and thereafter, or if the Players Coalition will get involved.“You have to stand for your flag, and you have to respect your flag and your country,” Trump said.
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