President Donald Trump has ratcheted up the national controversy over black National Football League players who refuse to stand while the U.S. National Anthem is played before games. During a Friday night political rally in Alabama, Trump called on fans to boycott teams that allow players to engage in that particular form of protest. The league's TV ratings have slid since quarterback Colin Kaepernick, then the leader of the San Francisco 49ers, began the trend in September 2016. 'Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, "Get that son of a b***h off the field right now! He is fired. He's fired!"' Trump boomed. His crowd applauded and chanted 'USA! USA!'
The outspoken president also said American football is 'not the same game anymore' since referees have clamped down on aggressive tackles, throwing penalty flags whenever they hear the crack of a vicious hit. 'They are ruining the game, right?' he asked. 'They are ruining the game.' Players on the field 'want to hit,' he complained. 'But you know what's hurting the game more than that?' Trump asked. 'When people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they are playing our great National Anthem.' 'The only thing you could do better is, if you see it – even if it's one player – leave the stadium. I guarantee things will stop. Things will stop.' 'Pick up and leave. Just pick up and leave.'
'You know, some owner is going to do that. He is going to say, "That guy that disrespects our flag, he's fired",' he predicted. 'Because that's a total disrespect of our heritage, that's a total disrespect of everything that we stand for.'
Why is this dude so caught up with fucking football players when North Korea is setting off nukes in the Pacific Ocean?
Gavin Robinson
I don't support Trump, but you have to admire how energetic he is about everything all the time. That being said, who cares about flag kneelers? It's a fad that started to distract people from the fact that Keapernick wasn't good enough to play football.
Nicholas Kelly
this
future generations will be jealous as fuck that we got to live in the era of the most entertaining president of anywhere in anytime
only a presidency of kanye west could MAYBE top that
Ethan Moore
You're a disappointment.
Logan Wood
freedom of opinion is against Murrikan ideals?
Alexander Murphy
bait but i'll bite
unless you've lived under a rock you'd know he is concerned about the norks
Charles Bailey
Hes setting them off underground, hes plopping unarmed missles into the sea.
Get your facts right.
Oliver Hughes
pretentious
Andrew Williams
Trump is such a fucking idiot. Literally too stupid to be even allowed to own a football team. Kek
Gabriel Fisher
Yes, freedom of opinion, this includes calling out others on their distasteful and despicable behavior.
Henry Garcia
Yes. Are you new to our politics? You literally can't say anything ever unless it's on an anonymoose Sengalese basket weaving forum behind 6 VPNs.
Alexander Evans
we should change the constitution to make this happen praise kek shadelay
Brayden Cooper
kim jong-un is an apehoop fan and friends with dennis rodman
trump attacking the nba is hurting kim jong-un much more than any sanctions could
Chase Howard
>freedom of opinion is against Murrikan ideals? Only for his bigot followers. Probably 75% of the people I've seen are pissed at what he said.
Tomorrow there are going to be a TON of players kneeling and a TON of stadium attendees kneeling.
Levi Campbell
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Mason Parker
Trumpers gonna trump
Leo Gray
I hope this brings back the XFL and kills apehoop forever
Zachary Morgan
Drumpf supporters vote against their interests like the inbred retards they are
Hudson Perez
I'd say, and the majority of Americans I think will agree, that the ones kneeling during the national anthem are a "disappointment". I can think of a couple better words to use... Disgraceful... Ungrateful... Dillusional...
Of course not, you have all the right to disagree with Murrikan ideals. Just like Murrikans have the right to not pay you money on the basis of you not liking their ideals.
Ian Edwards
Not so entertaining when his decisions fuck with your family and evironment
Wyatt Taylor
what if their priority interest are memes and entertainment?
checkmate, boring "reasonable" hillary voter
>"b-but she was so qualified" >"i-it was time for a female president and break the glas ceiling!!!1"
Ethan Walker
>Stadiums >Literally just the 49ers, Rams and Chargers.
Benjamin Campbell
The NFL kneeling bullshit was a faux trend started by a dogshit QB who got raised by white parents after his mom got BLACKED. Lets dispel once and for all this fiction that Kaepernick was kneeling for any sort of political activism. He was stirring controversy to hide his abysmal play abilities that resulted in the 49ers averaging one of the worst seasons in the history of their program.
Pretty much this. He did it to hide the fact that he was a shitty QB and other players hopped on because they gotta sell dem shoes mane.
Freedom of speech means you can't be jailed for what you say, under most circumstances. Nothing protects these retards from facing consequences. Also >Name 1 (ONE) country where it is better to be black than the united states
Landon Brooks
Nationalism is literally cancer and responsible for every single war. KYS trumptards
Eli Morales
Sup Forums memes are cringe af tho
Mason Hill
uh oh guys, the kochbot's vocabulary.exe is malfunctioning, it can't spell words correct.
Brody Harris
>implying every stadium from here on out will be jam-packed
Oliver Perez
>Name 1 (ONE) country where it is better to be black than the united states
canada?
Joseph Gutierrez
Levis stadium because they suck and it's far away. Rams and chargers who just moved to LA. Everyone else is full
Caleb Garcia
>he actually gives a fuck if people knee during the national anthem You're a disappointment too.
Christian Nguyen
>personal anecdote meme
Funny how liberals are so quick to cry white trash when Trump wins, but then they backtrack and act like that white trash isn't blindly patriotic and on the side of Trump. Anyone who sympathizes with Kaepernick is quite frankly retarded.
Thomas Rivera
>kneeling during your national anthem because you don't like your president
You people are so brain damaged it's ridiculous. And you actually think you're in the right here.
You honestly think that the average voter approves of kneeling during the national anthem ?
Ethan Ortiz
TNF is up. Overall viewer ship is down likely due to cord cutters and streams. Hard to use "tanking" when the top 5 rated programs on Sunday were all NFL games.
Carter Wood
Lower mean household income
Lucas Barnes
Super cringe bait bull I'll bite
More than half of trump supporters are on some sort of Medicaid/Obamacare yet they pursue to vote for slimbags that cut their benefit
Nathan Green
So this is Sup Forums tier polotical debate.
Jonathan Myers
>implying Canada isn't a shitty country
(u)
Evan Morris
He's not wrong
Eli Kelly
>Name 1 (ONE) country where it is better to be black than the united states Mexico. The worst thing you will hear is they'll call you "negrito", but nothing like the hanging threats you see here all the time.
Joshua Adams
Explain poor ticket sales. Sauce
Logan Cook
I just want to fucking watch Sports. I don't give a fuck what Trump has to say, or what the politcial opinions of the players are. I just want to watch Sports.
Elijah Hill
Just another shitposting twitter distraction played perfectly while he shits up the world.
Henry Ward
>mexico >The worst thing you will hear is they'll call you "negrito" ayyy lmao
the correct answer is sweden
Kayden Rogers
LA Rams, LA Chargers, Levi stadium
Jack Parker
I'm half black and didn't give a shit about the election but I think I just became a trump fan. He's right about everything he said which means tomorrow the majority of teams are going to kneel thus killing football. What a thing to wake up too.
John Kelly
Look at every blue collar red state. West Virginia is a republican strong hold and over 60 percent of the pop is on Medicaid
Mason James
then switch to real football m8
our sports are still very much about sports from the media site (many clubs just have a political ideology attached to their identity, so you will occasionally see fans of such teams display political opionions during games, but that's it)
Ethan Hernandez
>Name 1 (ONE) country where it is better to be black than the united states Hate this argument regarding anything. The United States SHOULD be setting the bar, or rather always attempting to raise its standards, not lowering them to other countries.
Adrian Barnes
Don't forget the obamacare repeal bill failing
Trump might be bad at passing laws but he's a professional at diversions and distractions
Colton Stewart
Except that isnt why theyre kneeling
Luke Green
Knowing how stupid these activists are they will double down on their retardation and will alienate more and more people
Kayden Gray
Still no sauce. Now only citing West Virginia? That would not be the only game where ticket sales are hurting.
Joseph Green
Is Trump respecting the flag when he bows down to the Saudi, Israel and Putin?
Caleb Morgan
>(((Hollywood))) losing shekels hand over fist >The electric jew is on its last legs >(((Sports))) following their lead Is there any better sound than the death rattle of multiple forms of bread and circus?
Logan Powell
He's also incredible at cutting regulations and getting China to cuck North Korea.
Hudson Torres
>Take public opinion (Over half of America agree that kneeling during the anthem is disrespectful) >Crank it up to 11 and broadcast it at a rally >Leftists lose their minds
Truly this is the power of Trump, driving his opponents mad effortlessly
>so caught up with >took like 45 seconds to shit on them yeah really booked him solid
Nicholas Lopez
Says the country too scared to send a few dozen athletes to Korea because of a fat, asian Trump.
Gabriel Edwards
That's a good point, but Blacks have it better in America than anywhere else in the world regarding things like wealth, education, life expectancy etc etc
Jackson Reed
>That would not be the only game where ticket sales are hurting. Those are pretty much the only places.
Camden Powell
NHL the only remaining sport where teams take pride in the national anthem
Liam Garcia
>sport
Jaxon Wilson
Makes sense. I forgot about the Dennis Rodman shit.
Adam Cook
youtu.be/M6Zhfw8KB2g Having a president Sun Downing due to dementia is amazing. he might cause a war or something but we can't say he's not entertaining.
Wyatt Edwards
Did he stutter? Dumbass.
Ethan Gomez
This so much about kapernick. For someone who is so all about injustice and being about the streets and helping blacks. The dude went to the Superbowl a few years ago. And the week prior to the game all they do is interview and talk to the players. Tell me why he never said one fucking word about all this injustice and white oppression?? No he waited till his skills declined and was out of a job then he became a civil rights leader. It scares me how many manypeople don't knowthis and honestly think he's kneeling bc racism.
Michael Murphy
argentina. even if you are black you are still white.
Jose Carter
Drumpfkins vote against their interests
Carter Ortiz
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Kayden Foster
REEEEEEEEEEEE BLACK LIVES MATTER
Carter Edwards
This Trump me has gone on long enough.
Sup Forumstards will tell you racism isn't real, and they're mostly right if you stick to NY, NJ, Fl, etc. But I've been to the South and I know how racist the ones inbreds are down there.
Still boggles my mind how someone poorer, less educated, and in worse shape than me can think they're better than because they're white.
Eli Smith
>I'M LISTENING TO THE FUCKING SONG
Charles Scott
>take common public opinion >ratchet it up to eleven >watch the left have a complete fucking meltdown over it and double down Everytime.
Nolan Cox
>professional sports were made to be a distraction >Now in days I can't stop hearing about politics in sports
Wyatt Martin
Do you hate the argument because you cannot refute it?
>The United States SHOULD [...] raise its standards What standard is raised by kowtowing to a black man who complains about perceived slights against him based upon his race even though he makes more money in a year than half the country will ever see in their lifetime and was lovingly raised by a family of the race that he accuses of being the source of these slights?
Liam Thompson
How long until it becomes the most retweeted tweet of all time?
Nathaniel Allen
Don't forget a ton of viewership losses too.
Henry Nguyen
why can't blacks speak english properly?
Noah Gutierrez
I tried telling this to my friend who's been sipping the blacks have it so bad juice. He honestly had no comeback. Most people I've met who are on the blm white people are evil kick are just parroting something they read online.
Aaron James
You're not supposed to vote for gibs anyway, you vote for what's right
Luke Green
I hate the argument because it's a lazy cop out.
Leo Young
Nothing will ever top the 51th superbowl anyway, this sport might as well end.
Liam Morgan
white men keeping them down
Daniel Williams
Even it gets most retweets it will not make his Hillary win OHIO.
Matthew Flores
i don't know. why can't Trump spell?
Xavier Nelson
Low average IQ (85)
Ian Smith
>Most people I've met just parrot something they read online.
That's mostly of everyone, on both sides of the spectrum. Don't even try to deny that.
Jeremiah Nelson
Explain why Trump talks like 4th grader
Hunter Baker
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
On one side you have an employee base full of dumb black guys who are easily riled up by social media and SJWs who will make it their life's mission to ruin you.
On the other hand you've got normies and conservatives who actually pay for your product giving up and going elsewhere.
What the fuck are you meant to do in that situation?
Anthony Martinez
cop out for what?
do you actually believe the police is hunting down black people like some form of neonazis? BLM and karpenick are idiotic and whining over nothing. If those petty worhtless criminals stop resisting arrest they won't get killed. And if they do get killed nothing of value was lost anyways.
Jace Sullivan
based President calling out dumb niggers
Kayden Scott
In what way has Trump bowed down to any of these groups?
I don't think anyone on Sup Forums will try to assert that racism isn't real. More likely it will be argued that racism is justified.
What are their interests?
Joseph Rivera
Well that's your problem fampai He's pretty entertianing
Ryder Anderson
*Explains
Carter Ward
>I hear by >I hearby >We must fix our education system >I hereby