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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 10:40 AM Oct 2017

Trump Uses Presidential Weekly Address to Go After NFL Players Again for Not 'Respecting Our Flag'

Source: Mediate




by Josh Feldman | 10:09 am, October 14th, 2017



President Trump isn’t done criticizing NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem. Now he’s taking his criticism to the Presidential Weekly Address.

The President talks about the history behind the American flag and says, “Every day millions of American citizens raise it, salute it, and honor it on the home front.”

And then he gets around to the protesting players:

“Before watching a football game, you want to see those players be proud of their country. Respect our country. Respect our flag. And respect our national anthem and we think they will. We certainly hope they will.”


Watch above, via The White House.

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Trump Uses Presidential Weekly Address to Go After NFL Players Again for Not 'Respecting Our Flag' (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
Obey. C_U_L8R Oct 2017 #1
F*ck You 45! /nt bitterross Oct 2017 #2
well said gopiscrap Oct 2017 #16
Trump is an idiot Gothmog Oct 2017 #3
Got that right gopiscrap Oct 2017 #17
1st Amendment a-hole Iliyah Oct 2017 #4
He has to do that because he can't verbalize any coherent thoughts on real issues like Iran TeamPooka Oct 2017 #5
lol, look at his face. He just hates keeping up the weekly address President Obama started. Sunlei Oct 2017 #6
Actually the "weekly address" concept started with Roosevelt BumRushDaShow Oct 2017 #11
Here is a link to President Obamas weekly addresses & every press question/answer session for 8 yrs Sunlei Oct 2017 #7
Is this this the first time Trump has done a weekly video address? Fiendish Thingy Oct 2017 #8
I can't watch this asshole NastyRiffraff Oct 2017 #9
No kidding, me too gopiscrap Oct 2017 #18
on top of everything else, ruining healthcare, promoting racial tension AmandaRuth Oct 2017 #10
OMG me too gopiscrap Oct 2017 #19
I wonder if Trump has the American flag raised above the factory floor where Donnie and Ivanka Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #12
American flag...Made in China SammyWinstonJack Oct 2017 #13
I feel pity for anyone who thinks he stands for them, because they are losers McCamy Taylor Oct 2017 #14
absolutely I have been trying to tell stupid fuck trump humers this gopiscrap Oct 2017 #20
This moron doesn't even respect our constitution mdbl Oct 2017 #15
This from the man who colluded with Russia to attack our country. blue neen Oct 2017 #21
Hey Idiot - the largest US state is in flames. spiderpig Oct 2017 #22
Hey Traitor -n-Chief turbinetree Oct 2017 #23
Utterly incapable of doing his job. He is a whiny psychopath obsessed with personal grievances. SunSeeker Oct 2017 #24
I'm Boycotting any NFL team that stands for the anthem maxrandb Oct 2017 #25
in the meantime we got whole team of German players taking a knee Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #28
Every word he uses turns to crap. Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #26
25 45 DinahMoeHum Oct 2017 #27
Trump is filth underthematrix Oct 2017 #29
Honest to god, everything about the protests aside. Afromania Oct 2017 #30

TeamPooka

(24,262 posts)
5. He has to do that because he can't verbalize any coherent thoughts on real issues like Iran
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 11:19 AM
Oct 2017

North Korea, Hurricane victims etc.

BumRushDaShow

(129,611 posts)
11. Actually the "weekly address" concept started with Roosevelt
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 01:00 PM
Oct 2017

although with Roosevelt, it was the "fireside chat" and they were not weekly, but were frequent, and were meant to address the public in a more informal sense about the state of affairs. Raygun formalized the current Saturday morning radio broadcast practice, Shrub included making his available on the internet, and Obama added the video version.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
7. Here is a link to President Obamas weekly addresses & every press question/answer session for 8 yrs
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 11:42 AM
Oct 2017
Last 6-8 months has all the Russia attacks public information.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/

Fiendish Thingy

(15,669 posts)
8. Is this this the first time Trump has done a weekly video address?
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 11:46 AM
Oct 2017

I got used to seeing posts of Obama's weekly addresses, but this is the first I've heard of Trump doing one.

AmandaRuth

(3,105 posts)
10. on top of everything else, ruining healthcare, promoting racial tension
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 12:56 PM
Oct 2017

screwing the environment,

he goes and ruins football.

I hope every player on every team takes a knee

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
12. I wonder if Trump has the American flag raised above the factory floor where Donnie and Ivanka
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 01:22 PM
Oct 2017

have their clothes lines made??

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
14. I feel pity for anyone who thinks he stands for them, because they are losers
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 06:57 PM
Oct 2017

who are about to be robbed of their Social Security, Medicare, homes, jobs---and they will cheer him along, because they believe that he respects them for having a deficiency of melanin. Have they even looked at the man? No one paints his face with Cheetos, because he takes pride in being white. This is Harold Hill and he has come to town to rob us blind. But go ahead, Trump base, cheer for the con man. Because a few moments of feeling special will more than make up for a miserable, lonely life that ends in premature death for you and your children.

mdbl

(4,976 posts)
15. This moron doesn't even respect our constitution
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 08:58 PM
Oct 2017

why are we as a country allowing this to continue?

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
22. Hey Idiot - the largest US state is in flames.
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 10:46 PM
Oct 2017

Glad to know you have your priorities in order.

Asshole.

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
23. Hey Traitor -n-Chief
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 11:35 PM
Oct 2017

you and your "pal" Manafort and "ALL" of your lackeys didn't respect the "flag", so sexual predator -n- chief, FUCK YOU

And by the way, its been about ten days since 4 Green Beret soldiers where killed in a ambush in NIGER, did you or your asshole vice-president go over to Dover to see the remains, with a american flag draped over the metal coffins--------------------FUCK NO............... ASSHOLE


Hows your clean drinking water, is it like the water in US VIRGIN ISLANDS or PUERTO RICO

ASSHOLE, don't think so, while your fucking "playing golf again!!!!!

And just think 38 people have died in California and over 3500 homes have been destroyed and not one word, you really are a ASSHOLE


I really wish there was a FUCK YOU emoji



maxrandb

(15,362 posts)
25. I'm Boycotting any NFL team that stands for the anthem
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 09:33 AM
Oct 2017

And any that play that fucking syrupy proud to be an American stupid ass song is dead to me.

Until Donnie Short Fingers and the Retrumplicans are gone, I will only stand for Green Day's American Idiot, or Drowning Pools Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

Afromania

(2,771 posts)
30. Honest to god, everything about the protests aside.
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 10:37 AM
Oct 2017

Doesn't this guy have anything else to fucking do? Off the top of my head, in no particular order of importance, he should be working on:

Natural Disasters
*Puerto Rico hungry, sick and without power
*California on fire
*Virgin Islands in same situation as PR
*South East Texas rebuilding
*Western Florida rebuilding

International incidents ignored/mishandled
*Yemen
*Niger
*Russia
*Syria
*Turkey

Shitgibbon created incidents/situations
*North Korea
*The entirety of the immigrant situation
*Uptick in white nationalist craziness
*Mexico
*Dis-function at the higher levels of government
*Canada
*Iran

Prevention of future shitgibbon incidents
*Implosion of the healthcare market
*Environmental disasters due to regulation rollback
*Economic collapse through a combination bad fiscal
policy and isolation from the rest of the world as they
turn their backs on us.
*Criminal Justice System war on black and brown
people, again.
*Totally unnecessary military action and/or war



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