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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:18 PM Jun 2018

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 ceremony—one 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

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Trump disinvites Eagles from White House, plans 'different type of ceremony' for fans (Original Post) oberliner Jun 2018 OP
Amazing coming from Traitor Trump. Dan Jun 2018 #1
Oh, don't you know the crowds will still want to come for ....THAT? hlthe2b Jun 2018 #2
Trump's pettiness was the first thought I had... InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #26
Snowflake RhodeIslandOne Jun 2018 #3
I say this as a life long Cowboys fan Va Lefty Jun 2018 #4
First, Jerry Jones' team has to win the Super Bowl. That's an absolute requirement, from a guy with NCjack Jun 2018 #13
Point taken Va Lefty Jun 2018 #15
First NBA, now NFL... RockRaven Jun 2018 #5
Lucky for them! nt chowder66 Jun 2018 #6
Eagles should hold an alternative rally/meet and greet in DC Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #7
That's actually a really good idea oberliner Jun 2018 #12
Maybe Baltimore would be better than DC. I lived in DC for 15 years, and I think NCjack Jun 2018 #19
They should spend the day serving meals at the local soup kitchens, they will be loved for a decade. grantcart Jun 2018 #20
That's actually a very cool idea! Gidney N Cloyd Jun 2018 #36
Being disinvited is a badge of honor. madaboutharry Jun 2018 #8
I'll say it again and again shadowmayor Jun 2018 #9
Yes, indeed! MyOwnPeace Jun 2018 #22
GOOD. BumRushDaShow Jun 2018 #10
Fuckface Von Clownstick has a sad. SunSeeker Jun 2018 #11
He'll never forget underpants Jun 2018 #14
first time seeing that clip AZ8theist Jun 2018 #21
I laughed out loud! yardwork Jun 2018 #48
Any fans who show up should be banished from the stadium. randr Jun 2018 #16
From the guy who wants to pardon himself of all crimes. grantcart Jun 2018 #17
Please Donny get in Mr. Jenkins face Botany Jun 2018 #18
Yeah, try that handshake-pull trick on Jenkins. Gidney N Cloyd Jun 2018 #37
Well we're hoping Trump gets disinvited from the White House in November. Initech Jun 2018 #23
So... jmowreader Jun 2018 #24
"their President"? MurrayDelph Jun 2018 #25
Time for a 1,000 person boycott. Sneederbunk Jun 2018 #27
When will this nightmare end? kimbutgar Jun 2018 #28
"Oh YEAH? Well, I didn't want you to come to the White House ANYWAY SO THERE!" MariaCSR Jun 2018 #29
Lifelong Steelers fan here - very proud of the Philadelphia Eagles! FakeNoose Jun 2018 #30
Seems the dissenters on the Eagles team hit a raw, throbbing nerve on Adolf Twitler herding cats Jun 2018 #31
They Should All Go To Hawaii... Grassy Knoll Jun 2018 #32
and the son of a bitch speaks. I really hate the asshole in chief. mountain grammy Jun 2018 #33
Can the white people still come? JohnnyRingo Jun 2018 #34
Hora Fugit Stat Jus mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2018 #35
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official,..." mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2018 #38
He's going all-out Il Duce SCantiGOP Jun 2018 #39
"Punish them all!" cried the king. moondust Jun 2018 #40
Everything he touches he turns into shit. BlueStater Jun 2018 #41
Trumpflake! Cadet bone spurs loses again. truthisfreedom Jun 2018 #42
More likely many on the team weren't going and Trump would be embarrassed by the small number suffragette Jun 2018 #43
That is correct oberliner Jun 2018 #44
That is indeed what a White House Official says muriel_volestrangler Jun 2018 #46
But - think of what they're missing! muriel_volestrangler Jun 2018 #45
Maybe, just maybe... N_E_1 for Tennis Jun 2018 #47
A different type of ceremony: Mc Mike Jun 2018 #49

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
26. Trump's pettiness was the first thought I had...
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:16 PM
Jun 2018

but more along the line of what a petty prick... just before the word asshole came to mind.

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
3. Snowflake
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:21 PM
Jun 2018

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!

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
13. First, Jerry Jones' team has to win the Super Bowl. That's an absolute requirement, from a guy with
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:38 PM
Jun 2018

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.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
19. Maybe Baltimore would be better than DC. I lived in DC for 15 years, and I think
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:43 PM
Jun 2018

the Eagles will not get a warm reception.

shadowmayor

(1,325 posts)
9. I'll say it again and again
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:32 PM
Jun 2018

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!

BumRushDaShow

(129,124 posts)
10. GOOD.
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:33 PM
Jun 2018

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!




AZ8theist

(5,477 posts)
21. first time seeing that clip
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 07:50 PM
Jun 2018

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...........

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
24. So...
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:06 PM
Jun 2018

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..."

kimbutgar

(21,163 posts)
28. When will this nightmare end?
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 08:33 PM
Jun 2018

Everyday he disgraces the office of Potus and the USA. I hope this gets him bitten in his fat ass.

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
30. Lifelong Steelers fan here - very proud of the Philadelphia Eagles!
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:08 PM
Jun 2018

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!

JohnnyRingo

(18,636 posts)
34. Can the white people still come?
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:31 PM
Jun 2018

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)
35. Hora Fugit Stat Jus
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:31 PM
Jun 2018

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)
38. "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official,..."
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:56 PM
Jun 2018
Robert H. Jackson
....

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.

moondust

(19,993 posts)
40. "Punish them all!" cried the king.
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 12:59 AM
Jun 2018

"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)
41. Everything he touches he turns into shit.
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 01:44 AM
Jun 2018

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.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
43. More likely many on the team weren't going and Trump would be embarrassed by the small number
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 04:20 AM
Jun 2018

showing up.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
46. That is indeed what a White House Official says
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 05:59 AM
Jun 2018

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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)
45. But - think of what they're missing!
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 05:56 AM
Jun 2018



"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:



N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,742 posts)
47. Maybe, just maybe...
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 06:00 AM
Jun 2018

The different kind of celebration will be Trumps retirement party, complete with indictments falling out of the piñata.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
49. A different type of ceremony:
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 09:04 AM
Jun 2018

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.

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