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Trump slams NFL for not making players stand for anthem (again)
Source: Reuters
#SPORTS NEWS OCTOBER 18, 2017 / 7:25 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Trump slams NFL for not making players stand for anthem
Jonathan Allen
2 MIN READ
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the National Football League on Wednesday for not forcing players to stand for the national anthem, firing back after league officials meeting in New York chose instead to effectively back players’ right to political activism.
“Total disrespect for our great country!” tweeted Trump, who has repeatedly denounced players in the country’s most popular sports league as unpatriotic for kneeling during the anthem in a demonstration against racism.
After the first day of the NFL’s two-day autumn meeting of team owners, players and their union’s leaders in Manhattan, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters they talked about “the issues that our players have been trying to bring attention to. About issues in our communities to make our communities better.”
The small but growing number of players kneeling during the national anthem are protesting the killing by police of unarmed black men and boys across the United States, as well as racial disparities in the criminal justice system. More than half of all NFL players are black.
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Trump slams NFL for not making players stand for anthem
Jonathan Allen
2 MIN READ
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the National Football League on Wednesday for not forcing players to stand for the national anthem, firing back after league officials meeting in New York chose instead to effectively back players’ right to political activism.
“Total disrespect for our great country!” tweeted Trump, who has repeatedly denounced players in the country’s most popular sports league as unpatriotic for kneeling during the anthem in a demonstration against racism.
After the first day of the NFL’s two-day autumn meeting of team owners, players and their union’s leaders in Manhattan, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters they talked about “the issues that our players have been trying to bring attention to. About issues in our communities to make our communities better.”
The small but growing number of players kneeling during the national anthem are protesting the killing by police of unarmed black men and boys across the United States, as well as racial disparities in the criminal justice system. More than half of all NFL players are black.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-football-nfl-anthem-trump/trump-slams-nfl-for-not-making-players-stand-for-anthem-idUSKBN1CN1JB
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It's almost as if Murdoch and co are intentionally manipulating the president. You can tell that whatever they talk about on Fox & Friends or Hannity is going to be what Trump tweets about within 1/2 an hour of what he watches. Someone really needs to take Fox away from him. Someone needs to smash a TV in front of him and force him to start really working for a change. 
