The Philadelphia Eagles were known to demonstrate during the playing of the national anthem last season, with Malcolm Jenkins and Chris Long both being particularly politically active.CreditRich Schultz/Getty Images
It appears that Trump trolling the kneeling thing as a ‘win’ for him has back fired on him….
The Philadelphia Eagles have treated the White House very unfairly.
That’s how the bungled celebration for the underdog Super Bowl champions — abruptly canceled by the president Monday night, less than 24 hours before the Rose Garden event was set to take place — is being portrayed by staffers in the West Wing.
Last week, the Eagles submitted 81 names of players who were planning to visit the White House, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. The team was “full steam ahead,” another administration official said, for an event that had been in the works since February.
But on Monday, the White House was informed that the delegation had been reduced to just two or three players, the owner, and the team’s beloved mascot, Swoop.
“We feel like they wanted to publicly humiliate the White House and the president,” the official said.
The change of plans was a setback for a White House that has until now viewed its culture war with the National Football League as a winning issue with its base. The event had been in the works for months, and taken up hours of planning by senior administration officials….
Not a single member of the Eagles took a knee during the anthem or refused to stand in any game they played.
Trump called out AGAIN on his bull shit…..
and whomever on this site wrote “the Eagles were known to demonstrate” during the anthem needs to be called out on the same thing.
Quote of the Day….
“The president has made it pretty clear he’s going to try to divide all of us in this country for political gain.”
— Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, quoted by the Washington Post…..
Politicalwire…
Instructive….
via twitter…
George Conway
@gtconway3d
George Conway Retweeted Jake Tapper
Eagles player: “Reasons vary from player to player, because the President gives people so many reasons not to want to go …. Lots of guys who are white and even conservative balked at the possibility of going.”
But the most recent data shows that a narrow majority of Americans don’t see the issue as the president does. A Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday found the following:
58 percent of American voters don’t think players who protest racial injustice by kneeling during the anthem are unpatriotic.
53 percent believe that athletes have the right to protest on the playing field or court.
51 percent oppose fining NFL teams if players do not stand for the anthem.
51 percent support the NFL policy requiring players on the field stand for the anthem.
“Voters are clearly torn on the national anthem issue. They seem to be saying, ‘You can still love your country and kneel during its Anthem,’…..
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