On Wednesday, Trump tweeted that the NFL is thinking about
keeping teams inside their locker rooms while the national anthem is being
performed next year over a fallout from players’ protesting this year.
According to Trump, the NFL now is considering a new idea –
keeping the teams inside the locker room while the National Anthem is playing
next season. He added that, this is almost as bad as taking a knee. He said ‘when
are the highly paid commissioners finally going to get smart and tough? This problem
is killing the league!’
Trump likely was referring to a report from the Washington
Post that was published on Tuesday which claimed owners are mulling about an offseason
change to the NFL’s anthem policy. Many sources told the newspaper that keeping
the team inside their locker room is on the table.
The president was critical of players who have kneeled this
whole season and has made a suggestion that the owners ought to “fire” all
players kneeling within the national anthem.
Trump most recently has targeted Marshawn Lynch, running
back for the Oakland Raiders, for sitting while the national anthem was being
performed, yet standing for Mexico’s.
In other news:
Trump escalated his war on Twitter with LaVar Ball, basketball
patriarch, referring to him as an "ungrateful fool," and “a poor
man’s Don King.”
The blitz came as they continued feuding over Trump's part
in securing the release of one of LaVar’s three sons after being detained in
China, in which the player was held for shoplifting when touring the nation.
Ball rebuffed Trump's demands for being credited, stating that it was President
Jinping who freed his son.
Since last week, the Trump-Ball war has been continuing, and
reached a peak last Sunday as Trump suggested that the three players should’ve
been left in jail because LaVar is unaccepting of what he did for his son and
ungrateful after refusing to thank him.
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