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kpete

(71,996 posts) Wed Nov 22, 2017, 09:58 AM Nov 2017

President Obama and his family used to serve dinner to the homeless and vets over the Thanksgiving

Trump Tweet: The NFL is now thinking about a new idea - keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That’s almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!.....
2:48 AM - Nov 22, 2017

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/25/politics/thanksgiving-obama-homeless-veterans/index.html

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President Obama and his family used to serve dinner to the homeless and vets over the Thanksgiving (Original Post) kpete Nov 2017 OP

Kick. dalton99a Nov 2017 #1

K&R secondwind Nov 2017 #2

Look if you were a homeless person which would you rather have? Some turkey el_bryanto Nov 2017 #3

This is ANOTHER MyOwnPeace Nov 2017 #4

You can't give to others when you are so damn self absorbed. democratisphere Nov 2017 #5

trump will open mar-a-lago's dumpsters to vets if they promise to personally thank him spanone Nov 2017 #6

If there's anyone who would know how to kill a football league, it's Donald Trump. NT mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #7

I think his attitude about the NFL goes back to the 80s. Yonnie3 Nov 2017 #8

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

1. Kick.

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Wed Nov 22, 2017, 09:59 AM

Nov 2017

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

2. K&R

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Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:04 AM

Nov 2017

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

3. Look if you were a homeless person which would you rather have? Some turkey

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Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:05 AM

Nov 2017

and trimmings or a self-serving tweet from the President about how NFL owners should slam into their athletes. A meal is only a meal; but a tweet is forever.

I don't know much about tweeting actually - that's the thing where you train a parakeet to repeat your message and put it on your windowsill to chirp it at passerbys right?

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MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)

4. This is ANOTHER

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:12 AM

Nov 2017

time when IQ45 could continue his "agenda" - he should cancel all public service and make sure the homeless and vets go without ANY Thanksgiving dinner - because it is something that PRESIDENT OBAMA did, indeed - serve the public.

Maybe announcing it over a Yuuugggggeeee piece of chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago would help get the message across!

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

5. You can't give to others when you are so damn self absorbed.

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Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:15 AM

Nov 2017

The drumpf's are the exact opposite of the Obamas; total evil compared to absolute good.

spanone

(135,844 posts)

6. trump will open mar-a-lago's dumpsters to vets if they promise to personally thank him

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Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:21 AM

Nov 2017

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,489 posts)

7. If there's anyone who would know how to kill a football league, it's Donald Trump. NT

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Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:28 AM

Nov 2017

Yonnie3

(17,444 posts)

8. I think his attitude about the NFL goes back to the 80s.

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Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:40 AM

Nov 2017

He's just settling a score.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/donald-trumps-long-stormy-and-unrequited-romance-with-the-nfl/2017/09/23/979264a4-a093-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.bcf79aeee55a

In 1986, Trump convinced his fellow USFL owners to launch what amounted to a hostile takeover attempt: They moved the league’s schedule to the fall to compete directly with the NFL, then sued the NFL, alleging antitrust violations. Trump predicted to his fellow USFL owners that the lawsuit would result in a massive judgment — hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in damages from the NFL — that would force the NFL to offer to merge the leagues.

In the trial, NFL attorneys framed their case around Trump, arguing that the lawsuit was a charade orchestrated by Trump as a way to get into the NFL on the cheap. The argument worked.

“I thought he was extremely arrogant, and I thought that he was obviously trying to play the game,” juror Patricia Sibilia recalled in a telephone interview last year. “He wanted an NFL franchise. .?.?. The USFL was a cheap way in.”

The jury ruled that the NFL had violated antitrust law but concluded that the USFL’s financial struggles were of its own making and awarded only $1 in damages. In antitrust cases, damages are tripled, so Trump’s legal assault on the NFL won a grand total of $3.

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