Trump disinvites Eagles from White House, plans 'different type of ceremony' for fans
Source: The Hill
President Trump on Monday abruptly announced the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles would not visit the White House on Tuesday, citing the team's participation in national anthem protests.
"The Philadelphia Eagles are unable to come to the White House with their full team to be celebrated tomorrow. They disagree with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country," Trump said in a statement.
"The Eagles wanted to send a smaller delegation, but the 1,000 fans planning to attend the event deserve better," he added.
Trump said Eagles fans are invited to the White House "to be part of a different type of ceremonyone that will honor our great country, pay tribute to the heroes who fight to protect it, and loudly and proudly play the National Anthem.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390667-trump-disinvites-eagles-from-white-house-visit-plans-different-type
Dan
(3,570 posts)hlthe2b
(102,297 posts)what a petty, petty man
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)but more along the line of what a petty prick... just before the word asshole came to mind.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Right-wing political correctness at it's best, courtesy of the world's biggest coward.
He's still pissed his boy TB and Billy Belicheat gots got too!
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)I'm sure Jerry Jones is available to kiss his ass.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)too little class and money to be invited into the NFL owners' club. And, second, if Jerry Jones is going to kiss Orange Bone Spur's ass, that privilege will be seized by Chris Christi, if present.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)RockRaven
(14,974 posts)Trump can't stand it when people ignore him.
chowder66
(9,073 posts)Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)the Eagles will not get a warm reception.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,842 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)Trump is a small and petty man.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)If you're far more offended by people kneeling during the National Anthem than you are by seeing citizens gunned down in our streets, then you're part of the problem!
Tuck Frump and all his ilk!
MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)Two trophies - one for the Super Bowl win and one for showing character and honor!
BumRushDaShow
(129,124 posts)Who would want to go in the den of thieves?
FLY EAGLES FLY ON THE ROAD TO VICTORY!
FIGHT EAGLES FIGHT STAY AWAY FROM D. OF C.!
THEY HIT LOW WE HIT HIGH
AS WE WATCH OUR EAGLES FLY
FLY EAGLES FLY ON THE ROAD TO VICTORY!
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)underpants
(182,832 posts)AZ8theist
(5,477 posts)He's scared shitless by a bird??
The failure claimed he would run into a school with an active shooter??
Words cannot describe what a vile piece of human excrement this clown is...........
yardwork
(61,651 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Botany
(70,518 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,842 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)What an asshole.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Trump is turning a celebration of the Eagles' Super Bowl win into a celebration of Donald Trump.
I can just imagine if this dipshit would have been in office in 2014... "Mr. President, we have a special demonstration for you. Our famous strong safety Kam Chancellor would like you to see how he won the Super Bowl on the Broncos' second possession..."
MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)He is not now, nor will he ever be, my President.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)Everyday he disgraces the office of Potus and the USA. I hope this gets him bitten in his fat ass.
MariaCSR
(642 posts)big baby. I hate him.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Why the hell does Cheeto insist on playing the National Anthem? So unnecessary and divisive.
I'm glad the SB Champion Eagles are sticking to their guns!
herding cats
(19,565 posts)Good for them!
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)..And Chill With Obama On The Beach And Have A Luau.
mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)The White House specified that "the full team" wasn't invited, so maybe those Eagles Donald Trump likes can still come for cake.
Kidding aside, just how old ls is this man socially? Sure, he tweets like a mean girl in study hall, throws tantrums like a grade school bully, and has the vocabulary of a grade schooler, but making the team come to hear the National Anthem blasted through Ted Nugents stage monitor while Trump glooms over them is as unpresidential as a clown nose and pink tutu.
Just when you think there's a bottom to his pettiness.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,504 posts)That's Latin for "it sort of makes you want to slingshot some D-cells into those White House windows to see if they really are as strong as they're supposed to be, doesn't it?"
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,504 posts)....
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that members of the Jehovah's Witnesses could not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States.
....
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
319 U.S. 641
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
319 U.S. 642
Trump is one of the petty ones.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)moondust
(19,993 posts)"Take out their families!," in order to defeat the "terrorists."
Lawless buffoon happy to make everyone pay for the actions of a few. Unfit for any position of power.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)The national anthem and the flag are now shit because this loathsome orange lummox molested them and made them represent something as vile and ugly as he is.
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)showing up.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)Link to tweet
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"A White House official says President Trump found the small size of the Eagles group coming to be unsatisfactory so he changed the event"
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)Link to tweet
"The Eagles are really missing out on the opportunity to stand there while the President fucks up their names, barely mentions the Super Bowl, then tells a pointless story about how NFL owners were very unfair to him when he tried to buy the Buffalo Bills."
Yeah, that's about right. And what the "wise receiver" Torrey Smith said months ago:
Link to tweet
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,742 posts)The different kind of celebration will be Trumps retirement party, complete with indictments falling out of the piñata.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)It's for the Eagles fans who love d Rump and hate the Eagles. They'll get together with d Rump to celebrate the Eagles' win and bad mouth the Eagles. To celebrate d Rump's great super bowl win, and d Rump's great patriotism.
Repugs. Never assume they can't possibly get any crazier and dumber.