He has learned nothing about race relations in the year since Charlottesville. He just wants to stoke the bigotry of much of his base.
He is wrong saying the players are unable to define what they are protesting. Players have said on many occasions that they are protesting racial injustice but Trump doesn’t want to deal with that issue.
He just wants the players to shut up.
Trump is still tweeting about the NFL national anthem protests https://t.co/AIp39ncjuw
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 10, 2018
Trump says NFL players are “unable to define” what they’re protesting. The players actually have been quite clear in articulating that they are protesting racial injustice and police brutality. https://t.co/sWw8KSxx7P
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) August 10, 2018
Analysis: Trump tweeted that most NFL players are "unable to define" why they’re protesting.
Here’s where they have. https://t.co/CKeeBfdf2e
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 10, 2018
Reminder that per WSJ, POTUS told Jerry Jones of his attacks on NFL player protests of racial injustice during national anthem: "This is a very winning, strong issue for me. Tell everybody, you can't win this one. This one lifts me." https://t.co/b1MWayFQYn
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 10, 2018
Kneeler Derangement Syndrome https://t.co/xBFaOjxq6c
— Rick Newman (@rickjnewman) August 10, 2018
.@PhilipRucker just now: Trump hasn’t said anything about the DC White Supremacists rally but has about NFL protests: “He’s judging how professional athletes decide to protest but he says nothing about how KKK members or White Supremacists decide to protest.”
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) August 10, 2018
NFL player blasts Trump for condemning national anthem protests but not white supremacist rally https://t.co/LLBxujjsLI pic.twitter.com/MYGDYx3dYo
— The Hill (@thehill) August 10, 2018
Trump thinks the NFL protests are a potent issue for him. He bragged to a group of conservative activists last year that “it’s really caught on.” Our report from last September on this… https://t.co/6X5ZsQNpHe
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 10, 2018
How unusual that Trump claims NFL players are unable to articulate what it is they are protesting. He did just that while speaking with me and several other reporters outside the White House in June. pic.twitter.com/dyioGASPW6
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 10, 2018
I asked you in October in the Rose Garden and @PressSec did you understand what the issue of taking the knee was about? Your answer was, it was disrespectful. Will you meet with NFL players on the issue of police involved shootings and abuses? https://t.co/vhouZ439K2
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) August 11, 2018
Trump falsely says NFL players can’t define why they’re protesting https://t.co/w9OsYnFwHe @BillKristol @K_JeanPierre @JFKucinich @perrybaconjr discuss @TheLeadCNN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 10, 2018
NFL players emphasize their reasons for demonstrations during anthem: ‘It’s not a protest. It’s an awareness.’ @AP_RobMaaddi https://t.co/klhkv5fjXw
— AP NFL (@AP_NFL) August 11, 2018
Sad! 