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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump told Jerry Jones crapping on African American football players was working for him.
"Tell everybody, you can't win this one," Trump told Jones, according to the report. "This one lifts me."
Jones recalled Trump's comments in a sworn deposition that was taken as part of Colin Kaepernick's grievance against NFL owners and obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2018/05/30/jerry-jones-donald-trump-nfl-national-anthem-protest-cowboys/655388002/
Cha
(298,077 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)doesn't matter to him what the consequences are to others. He loves giving it to the NFL for depriving him of owning a team.
Initech
(100,150 posts)The owners are in on it, Trump is in on it, and Fox News has the fans by the balls. WTF is going on here?
MagickMuffin
(15,981 posts)We've got a new talent of slaves to make us rich. Just like the good ole days when they worked for free, but nows we gotta pay em.
underpants
(183,043 posts)So uh why would THEY go along with it?
erronis
(15,470 posts)What a great marketing vector to his basest base!
(I bet tennis is not in the same league.)
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)then, he bashes the entire league for disrespecting the flag and our soldiers.
If they go along with Trump, it's a victory for Trump.
Either way, it gets his base either angry at "the blacks" and ready to vote or happy for a Trump victory over "the blacks" and excited to vote.
He knows that getting his base of Deplorables out to vote is key to holding the House and Senate. He doesn't care about Democrats and Independents and even the few reasonable Republicans.
Freethinker65
(10,116 posts)Racism has worked for the GOP for decades.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)related to the Kaepernick lawsuit
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Then bowed down to do as he wanted , instead of doing what was right for their players. I won'y buy any NFL products , or watch their games for their actions. And will stop buying their sponsors products also. Trump did this for revenge, not for patriotism, or the flag.
catbyte
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Delmette2.0
(4,178 posts)I wish every single member and staff of all the teams would take a knee during the nation anthem. And that no one is fined.
If 45 still whines, the should all stay in the locker rooms.
If that doesn't shut them up then just stop playing the national anthem all together. There is no law that we play it at all. It's just tradition and 45 doesn't respect tradition let alone laws and the Constitution.