From the @ sfchronicle ’s Santiago Mejia, here is A’s rookie Bruce Maxwell becoming the first MLB player to take a knee for the anthem:
Major League Baseball Player Protests Trump's Comments About The National Anthem By Kneeling For The National Anthem Before MLB Game
A’s rookie catcher Bruce Maxwell, who earlier in the day profanely bashed President Donald Trump on Instagram, became the first major-league player to kneel during the National Anthem on Saturday before Oakland’s game at the Coliseum.
The product of a U.S. military family, Maxwell placed his hand on his heart and faced the flag during the anthem while taking a knee before the game against Texas. Teammate Mark Canha placed his hand on Maxwell’s shoulder.
The A’s issued a statement on Twitter after the National Anthem that read: “The Oakland A’s pride ourselves on being inclusive. We respect and support all our players’ constitutional rights and freedom of expression.”
Saturday morning, Maxwell, who is African American, took a strong stand on Instagram against Trump’s remarks about NFL players who choose to kneel during the National Anthem.
After Trump’s comments urging NFL owners to fire any players who kneel for the anthem, Maxwell posted a tweet from Andrew Steinthal that suggested that all NFL players should kneel for the anthem on Sunday. Below the post, Maxwell added in a comment, "Yeah, f- this guy! Our president speaks of inequality of man because players are protesting the anthem! F- this man! Seriously on the highest platform for our country expressing that it is OK for there to be division of man and rights!"
Maxwell was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, when his father, who also is named Bruce, was stationed there with the Army. The younger Maxwell grew up in Alabama and he is highly patriotic - he took great pride in the July 4 uniforms and catcher’s gear he received this year - so his decision to kneel appears to be entirely in opposition to Trumps comments and in solidarity with the NFL players who have taken a knee for the anthem.
Maxwell’s agent, Matt Sosnick, confirmed this Saturday evening, saying via text: “Bruce's father is a proud military lifer. Anyone who knows Bruce or his parents is well aware that the Maxwells’ love and appreciation for our country is indisputable.
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Not a surprise. Decent people are fed up with the buffoon in chief.
Then quit following him. It's that simple. But it does bring to mind what many liberals will do for their daily freak out.
There are a lot of people on the right who are also fed up with Trumps lies and infantile tantrums and arrogant empty blathering and embarrassing tweeting. And I happen to know a lot of them, and hear their complaint every day. Yes, they voted for the man, but, he has proven to be anything but what they hoped for after he took office.
However, the die hard right will stand with him no matter what, not so much because of their loyalty to the man, but, to their party. So no matter what kind of person gets elected by their party they will support them. And that is their choice and their right. But, they do not have the right to condemn and denigrate those who disagree with them or their choice of party.
And that goes for both sides of the aisle. As when we stand divided as a nation, we are vulnerable to ignoring the needs of our country and its people.
Just my thoughts.
What makes you think I follow him?
He's the president. He is the news every day.
Given the amount of hissy fit articles, how can I think you don't?
You talk big on behalf of a man who has an approval rating in the mid 30's. Instead of complaining so much about social justice, try monitoring you guy's constant blunders so you know what you are talking about.
I never said I was speaking for him. I speak for on person only, myself. He's an adult, he can speak for himself (which apparently sends you and others off the deep end).
And I have far more important things to do than monitor everything he says.
This baseball player knows, and all of sports knows, that the issue here is not the national anthem or what the players do, but what the president of the United States has chosen to do by using his bully pulpit to encourage the players employers to fire them for insufficient displays of patriotism.
Good on him and his teammate. Trump's twitter screeds today were appalling.
Someone please hurry to the daycare room and snatch the nuclear football while he's busy quarreling with another toddler.
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He's cracking up again. It is always just a matter of time.
I am looking at the web site Mediaite, which is an aggregator of news that appears in print and tv. Virtually every one of the ten most recent stories on that site are about how Trump has insulted the nations professional athletes.
It is not a liberal site.
Trump's only method of communication is to attack and lie...This is nothing new and he'll probably blow this up to WWIII.
He's a dunce, period.
Trump turned a minor situation into a major news story that is leading news programs this morning. He is a mental case attention whore who is trying to use this to energize his base.
If he is making America great again, why does he need to create animosity in this way?