Trump calls off White House visit by Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles over anthem dispute
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The traditional visit by the previous season's Super Bowl championship team, in this case the Philadelphia Eagles, has been cancelled. Trump has his spin, but the truth is that so many players said they would not go that the event would have been a massive embarrassment for the president.
@NFLNetwork now says the delegation would have been fewer than 10 players.
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Digging deeper into a culture war that he's repeatedly stoked, President Trump on Monday called off a visit by the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House Tuesday, citing the dispute over whether NFL players must stand during the playing of the national anthem.
Trump said in a statement that some members of the Super Bowl championship team “disagree with their president because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country.”
He said the team wanted to send a smaller delegation, but “the 1,000 fans planning to attend the event deserve better.”
Instead, Trump said he would be hosting “a different type of ceremony,” featuring the United States Marine Band and the United States Army Chorus, that “will honor our great country, pay tribute to the heroes who fight to protect it, and loudly and proudly play the National Anthem.”
It remains unclear exactly what prompted the change of plans. The White House did not immediately respond to questions about what had sparked the decision and why the circumstances were different from other events honoring winning teams, which some players have boycotted. The team did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
But wide receiver Torrey Smith, who said previously that he planned to skip the visit, responded with a series of tweets.
“So many lies,” he wrote, adding, “Not many people were going to go.”
Smith, who played on the Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia team before being traded to the Carolina Panthers in March, added: “No one refused to go simply because Trump ‘insists’ folks stand for the anthem. The President continues to spread the false narrative that players are anti-military.”
He went on: “There are a lot of people on the team that have plenty of different views. The men and women that wanted to go should've been able to go. It's a cowardly act to cancel the celebration because the majority of the people don't want to see you. To make it about the anthem is foolish.”
The NFL recently announced a new policy requiring players to stand for the anthem if they're on the field before a game, but gave them the option of staying in the locker room if they want to carry on the Colin Kaepernick-inspired campaign against police brutality and social injustice.
Trump has repeatedly stoked the issue, saying the NFL should fire any players who kneel during the anthem. During an interview after the new policy was announced, Trump praised the league for doing “the right thing.”
“You have to stand proudly for the national anthem,” Trump said. Or “you shouldn't be playing, you shouldn't be there. Maybe they shouldn't be in the country.”
Several members of the Eagles have voiced staunch opposition.
“This is a fear of the diminished bottom line,” defensive end Chris Long said last month after the NFL announced its new policy. “It's also fear of a president turning his base against a corporation. This is not patriotism. Don't get it confused. These owners don't love America more than the players demonstrating and taking real action to improve it.”
Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins is among the outspoken players have also vowed to carry on the cause.
“I will not let it silence me or stop me from fighting,” he said recently. “This has never been about taking a knee, raising a fist or anyone's patriotism, but doing what we can to effect real change for real people.”
In response to the canceled White House event, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) invited the Eagles to come to Capitol Hill.
“I'm proud of what the Eagles accomplished this year. I'm skipping this political stunt at the White House and just invited the Eagles to Congress. Eagles, how about a tour of the Capitol?” he wrote.
White House legislative director Marc Short said in an appearance on CNN that he didn't know who had canceled on whom, but said, “It's unfortunate when politics gets in the middle of this.”
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I don't think there has ever been a team that sent fewer than ten people to one of these ceremonies. This is how much of an embarrassment Trump is to this country.
None of the EAGLES took a knee during the playing of the National Anthem!!!!!!!
Trump cancelled on the Eagles BECAUSE THEY MADE IT CLEAR THAT MOST OF THE TEAM WOULD NOT ATTEND THE EVENT … so, egomaniac that Trump is … he tried to make it appear that he "stood up his prom date" rather than be embarrassed.
HYPOCRITE TRUMP and his hypocrite minions never miss a chance to rail against "political correctness" … and always try to make it about "patriotism" … while it's actually about racist dog whistling.
But, when NFL players, including the EAGLES, exercise their First Amendment right to PEACEFULLY PROTEST VIA POLITICALLY INCORRECT action … Trump plays the patriotism card!
For the record … NONE OF THE EAGLES WHITE, CONSERVATIVE PLAYERS WANTED TO ATTEND THE EVENT!!!!
Some fucking patriot … Donald Jess Willard Trump.
I have never been more proud to be a LIFE-LONG PHILLY GUY … don't spit in our faces and tell us "it's raining!"
So, if you threw a party for someone and they said they weren't coming, you'd have the party anyway? Why? That's silly. Trump did what any reasonable person would do when his invitation was refused. He decided to do something different, instead.
More like you decided to have a party and only some of the invited were willing to come so you cancel the whole party rather than show how few came but then you proclaim they sent a contingent of adoring fans, except that the fans didn't even know who the prominent players were. ten minutes and it was over.
President* Trump is stoking racial animosity over the wholly invented "national anthem" issue , as a strategy to motivate his base for the fall congressional and US senate elections.
We know with certainty that Trump is not above using race as a basis for his political popularity. Back at the turn of 2010-2011, Trump was considering a run for the presidency as a Republican in 2012. It was something he had been talking about for years and years, but by 2012 he would be 66 years old, and 70 in 2016, the upper limit of the age at which anyone had seriously run for president. So in 2011 Trump was looking for a way to "up his game" and create a base in the Republican party from which to launch a bid for the GOP nomination in 2012.
He landed on the idea of reviving the then fading concept of "birtherism" , the tea partyish claim that President Obama was not a real American, but rather a Kenyan, and even moreso, son of a Muslim, schooled in a Muslim country. Over the course of a few months Trump became the most prominent birther in the country, mainly due to his extensive contacts in the mainstream media. Birther nuts like Joe Arpaio and Orly Taitz couldnt get their convoluted conspiracies about Obama's birth certificate onto the network morning shows, but Donald Trump could. He went on the Today show and told Meredith Vierra that he was compiling incredible information that hinted that the birther claims were true. He said he was sending a team of private detectives to Hawaii to finally learn the truth. He demanded on national television to see President Obama's long form birth certificate.
For awhile Trump's efforts were paying off and he was gaining popularity among the nation's racists and xenophobes and the possibility of a strong run for the nomination in 2012 was developing. But then Obama threw Trump for a loop when he actually released his long form birth certificate. Suddenly Trump seemed misinformed and petty and a run for national office was out the window.
Trump was forced to bide his time and regroup his political ambitions down the road.
So we KNOW that Donald Trump was and is more than willing to cynically exploit racial animosity for personal political purposes.
The NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began to kneel during the playing of the national anthem before his games at the beginning of the 2016 season. Kaepernick told reporters that he was protesting police brutality against blacks , including of course the shooting of unarmed blacks by police officers in various locations around the country. It wasn't long before other players joined in and eventually a number of NFL teams had players who knelt during the anthem before at least one game.
In September of 2017, when the new NFL season began and some players were still kneeling , President* Trump referred to the players as "sonsofbitches" who were disrespecting the American flag. Over the course of time he would tweak and refine his message on the "issue" to claim that the players were disrespecting the US military and all those who had died defending the country. Recently Trump has said that those who won't stand up during the national anthem don't even belong in America and should leave.
Donald Trump used, and is using, race to divide America and to maintain his roster of "deplorables" , the conglomeration of so called "super-patriots", anti-government types, conscious and unconscious white nationalists, and assorted others who respond to "us" vs "them" appeals, in order to have a solid voting bloc for his interests in the upcoming 2018 congressional and senate elections. It has been reported in the past few days that Trump has told associates he will keep up his ranting about the national anthem through the rest of this year. If it works politically, we can assume it will continue past this year.
The NFL players have specifically said that the protests have not been about the flag, the military, or US war dead. There is absolutely no reason to believe that NFL players are any less patriotic than any other segment of Americans. But for Trump's purposes, there is a good reason to say they are un-American. Almost all of those who have knelt, and 70% of the league on the whole, are black. Trump is back in 2011 stoking up racial animosity just like he did when he said he had sent detectives to Hawaii to uncover the "truth" about the nation's first black president.
And it is working. I have seen on this forum a number of comments from right wingers that are disparaging remarks about "blacks" in relation to the national anthem.
Trump is using race to protect and advance his political interests. It is as plain and simple as that. He's done it before in an obvious and bold way, and he is doing it again.
Trump is trying to frame this as him trying to take a principled stand over the anthem controversy, but the truth is the vast majority of the Eagles players did not want to meet him.
"Oh, you didn't want to come to the WH to meet MEEEEE!!!!?" "Fine, I am uninviting you!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Signed,
I am sure that Trump would not have had any objection to any of the players kneeling in front of him with their hand on their heart. After all, he IS royalty, ya know. He might even expect them to wash his feet as well.
He is ROYALLY stupid is what he is. Honestly, I thought GWB was a terrible president but he looks like a diamond in the rough compared to trumpturd.
Agreed!! He and his base remind me of the story of the "Emperors New Clothes" The people who can't think for themselves are willing to believe whatever he says, no matter who stupid, or how untrue. As long as Trump says it, they will believe it.
I didn't want to believe that but during the campaign, it became obvious that like you said, no matter how big of a lie trump told, his base bought it hook, line and sinker, every single time. It literally is a cultist attitude. And as you know, the first thing a cult leader does is tell everyone that everyone else is lying to you and that is EXACTLY what trump has done with his "fake news" horse shit.
I listened to the right wing call Obama everything BUT Obama for 8+ years. Save the fake outrage ok? Thanks.
That's the truth. Karma really is a Bi*ch.
Well, the Mythbusters gave it a try but, I don't think they succeeded in polishing a turd,
However, you can make a diamond in the ruff into something worth while.
I agree with all that. He's doing such a good job that he should be the KING!
Not on prime time or the cable channels. And Fox News certainly never called him any negative names. Musta been on liberal web sites.
Your king comment was tongue in cheek, eh?
Trump wasn't even able to spell his own wife's name in a tweet.
I really love that joke!
When you can provide real proof, let us know.
I wouldn't count on that.
I am not a fan of the players not standing for the athem.
With that said:
The people's house is no longer our house. It's now Trump's white house and he has a patriotism test that people need to pass otherwise they will not be admitted.
That is what one of the players said. I think the anthem thing is an excuse to cancel the event. It seems to me that a lot of the Philadelphia Eagles realize the president of the United States is an asshole and don't want anything to do with him.
What I care about is that he has successfully established a patriotism test. There is something terrible happening to our country.
Respect is earned, not bestowed. I have no respect for trump at all, he is a whining coward.
Dennis Smith, the inarticulate drive by right winger, how the hell are ya?
And what you think is?
No, I don't do drugs or drink. I'm rather boring when it comes to the "party" scene.......lol
Too much sugar?
Kidding aside, I do think he is creating a criteria in which potential visitors and guests will be required to meet.
It goes further than just that, demanding displays of so called patriotism is simply masking nationalism and when groups profess outrage at the fact that as citizens of a free country have the ability o refuse such displays the hiding of the nationalist intent becomes exposed. Guess what leader demands nationalistic displays under threat, yes trump does it but more pointedly it is Kim Jong soon to be trumps friend. What leader relishes large military parades to exalt and worship the leader, yes trump again but pointedly yet again is Kim Jong. Trump is probably going to tap Korea to be his parade planners and how to set up anti aircraft cannons to eliminate dissidents, lets face it a few rounds and protests will change radically.
Yet you openly worship a man that used daddies money to get a medical. Sad!
I am not a fan of them kneeling either, but as a vet, I fought for their right to do so. Trump forcing people to stand and cover their hearts for the anthem is something a fascist dictator would do.
Exactly
LOL. Trump has actually said that players who don't want to stand for the national anthem should be kicked out of the country.
Trump says NFL players who don’t stand during anthem …
May 24, 2018 · WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump praised NFL team owners for doing the "right thing" in requiring NFL players to stand during the National Anthem this season, and suggested those who don't stand maybe "shouldn't be in the country .
Are you sure about that?
deleted skirting, {SP}
take your bla bla bla elsewhere please
Trump hasn't forced them to do anything. That's part of the problem today. Too many people running around like their pants are on fire crying about all the horrible things Trump is making them do, when he hasn't made them do a damned thing.
And yet they won't be will they? Come back to reality. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. The president is free to express his hyperbolic, emotional opinion, just like anyone, but to seriously assert that anything like that will actually happen is either dishonesty or lunacy.
Ahhh but if he were to become king as Greg wishes then the game changes does it not, he loves dictators and our law has not accommodated his desire to become one. It is your willingness to not see.
And that's going to happen how, exactly?
Come on! It's so hard to talk seriously about issues when we engage in absurd fantasy.
Would not worry about this either. As long a Trump remains anywhere, there will be many who will simply turn their back on him at every opportunity in the spirit of honor, fealty and patriotism.
Besides. Why would the Super Bowl Champions willingly tarnish their image or soil their patriotism?
Trump is man whose only endearing qualities are...……….have never been determined. Besides, no wedding invite and a public decline of invitation for memorial service is par for the course.
Those who are endeared to him and support him are 'the forever lost'----in the same category of those who perished in 'The Last Redoubt' during the closing phases of WW2.
Landshark says 'race' is the only reason the Eagles players wouldnt want to meet Trump.
I'm white and I don't want to meet him. If he let me ask him 10 questions and it was shown on every news network, then I would meet him. Short of that I have no interest.
Same here! I have no desire to meet him and I have nothing to say to him, other than, "go fuk yourself".
Sorry to stray off topic a tiny bit here John, but speaking of trump.... I was checking twitter the other day and out of the blue, I get a notification....
@ Scaramucci Follows you
Weird shit... lol
You tweeted or retweeted something that caught his eye.
Perhaps. Not sure what it was but....just thought it was a little odd. I don't post much of anything on twitter, but I keep picking up some high profile people...just no clue why...But anyway... Headed for bed. Thanks for the great seed John.
Uh Oh.....you are now being followed by the 'Mooch". That can't be good.
Left, right or middle?
good one.
It's pretty sad that these players don't even want to go to a party in their own honor, at the WH. That speaks volumes about how terrible trump really is but he is so stupid, he thinks it's got nothing to do with him. What a fricking dumbass.
How could it? He can do no wrong, ya know....
"This is a fear of the diminished bottom line,” defensive end Chris Long said last month after the NFL announced its new policy. “It's also fear of a president turning his base against a corporation."
Democrats "IN CONGRESS", including a "CERTAIN PAST PRESIDENT", go against corporations ALL the friggin time, at least in words during an election cycle. Now....Mr. Long is worried about a "Corporation" ?
Where was he all those other times ?
Just like this kneeling crap that started when #BLM started.
Where were all these so-called "CONCERNED PLAYERS"...… Before ?
Is it because a "Certain PAST President" made it popular before it wasn't ?
Trump avoided the embarrassment of being snubbed by over 80% of the Eagles players by cancelling the event.
What a courageous fellow!
Yes he is !
He's not afraid to tell someone to "Stick It" for being "All-of-a-sudden" CONCERNED about issues !
Better than the wishywashy crap we got from past presidents.
Where were the players when Ray Rice knocked out his "Fiancee'" in the Elevator ? Didn't see them taking a knee for that ….. did you ?
Weren't they both "Black" ?
#blkviolenceagainstblksdoesnotmatter ?
skirting the CoC [ph]
Really ?
The "Players" are showing it's all about race. #BLM and Kapercrap type kneelings were just about cops, not the entire spectrum of "Black Issues" !
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.“
Seems some forget one other RULE:
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.“
And has a cost on the protestor, and not in a good way !
The kneeling during the national anthem had nothing to do with President Trump. It began while Obama was still president. Trump injected himself into it and started claiming that the kneeling players were unpatriotic. THAT is the main controversy about it now, not the police abuse.
And I see right wingers on this forum and elsewhere emphasizing that the "unpatriotic" players are black. That is bringing race into the controversy between the players and Trump.
Your preaching to the choir on that. I said as much.
"Trump injected himself into it and started claiming that the kneeling players were unpatriotic."
Take a knee on your own time and dime, not on my time and dime !
I don't Pay-to-watch to see someone that has this "all-of-a-sudden" Jesus moment in their life.
Trump has said that players who don't stand for the national anthem should leave the country. (I guess that is a step beyond being fired.) Does he recognize the existence of the first amendment?
Only when his supporters or, Trump himself have something to say.
really explain how its on your time and dime. because the last i checked, the NFL is private and you cant get tickets with out ordering them much less the schedule they use is for national tv times.
how silly of you to bring in Jesus, do you think jesus wants all people to be treated fairly?
The very few NFL players want to remind folks that is not true. and sadly we cant go a week with out a video showing out of control cops over reacting via use of force on black citizens over the most silliest reasons. example would be that nba guy up in Milwaukee (brown)
and by the way , why do you pay anything to watch football when most games are free. ugh smh
I have to wonder if he feels the same way about the women that wear flag bikinis. After all using the flag as clothing is disrespectful.
I buy Game tickets all the time when I can go. Where the Fuck are you coming up with NFL Games are exclusive to only a certain few ?
Plus.....I pay for the NFL channel taboot when I can't go to a game of the team I like.
"how silly of you to bring in Jesus, do you think jesus wants all people to be treated fairly?"
I don't "DO" religion. Got anything else ?
Do you think Obama would have curtailed anything that could promote his Marxist Ideology of Cultural Marxism? It started in 2016 when Colin Kaepernick, a mixed race football player who had been adopted by a white couple after his black father ran off when he found out Kaepernick's white mother was pregnant, but it didn't really get started until September 2017. Obama would never condemn anything that promoted his ideology of destroying the USA from within.
Trump should have had the Eagles at the White House if only two of them showed up in my opinion. The media would have had a ball with that one as it doesn't matter what Trump would have done, they would have solely took the low road on it and twisted everything around to make it as bad as they could for Trump.
I don't think the Democrats realize just how much their Party has been hijacked by the Left and you supporting Bernie Sanders says a lot as well. And this says a lot about the previous President.
The NFL Network game pass thing is difficult for me to justify because of all the closed market games that don't get broadcast if they don't fill their seats. Otherwise, I would subscribe each year. It is rather annoying when 4 or 5 games each week are blacked out though.
Try NFL Game Ticket using DTV......We watch any game we want....especially the two teams the family is interested in. We haven't had a game blacked out for 14 years.
'Clueless' was one of my favorite movies of all time.
Nope !
Go ahead....kill each other. They better Just stay outa my home with their crap, or they WILL BE a statistic too.
Piped in? the President has his own band : )
Really don't care !
Is that ALL you EVER see ?
How do you feel about the NK talks ?
How about the "Deregulations ?
Maybe your concerned with the Tax overhaul ?
Ya see....while Liberals are worried about the likes of the NFL....as Trump wants you to be...….Trump keeps doing things important.
Maybe your happy with the new "Right to Try Act" ?
Just wondering.
Ask yourself....why do these so-called "Victims" get involved with the police in the first place....while MOST others DON'T !
You do know there are over 300 million people in this country....right ?
The players have as much right as any other corporate employee does, when it comes to protesting on corporate time.
Not much....as it should be when on someone else's dime !
I will look into that. I appreciate the heads up. If I could get away with it timewise, I would probably watch every game every week, but having the option to watch all of them would be nice.
Or....they could all show up, and then turn their backs to him. Now that would get attention. The way it is, they come across as pampered and spoiled whiners
Nice thing about it, the lump sum cost is divided up throughout the months, instead of being a lump sum before the season starts.
I have to take one thing back. We did have a "Dolphin" game blacked out "ONE TIME"....but it was the "Dolphins".
lol. Hard luck Dolphins can never catch a break.
Yeah, having it divided over four months or what have you is definitely better than paying a lump sum for the service.
and I am one of those who says kneeling is bad form
It might be how long I've had it, but they break it up into 12 month increments. But I never miss any game I want to watch.....except for the Dolphins.
I am one of those who says kneeling is bad form
So is murdering people for being black.
I am very proud that President Trump told those racist ass football players to stay away from our nations capital! I really think that the racist ass sports players should all be given an apartment in downtown Detroit, and be told to stay there until their game is supposed to begin on Sunday.
Why are they racist?
those who CHOOSE to pay to go to stadiums, those would be exclusive..................because only so many can fit in the stadium and also by the way not everyone can pay for tickets so that again makes the NFL game experience EXCLUSIVE. ugh
lol again that is a choice....so please stop whining about what YOU CHOOSE to do.
i dont do religion either which is why i wondered why you even typed that. of course religious people and non-religious people understand that Jesus represents all people. and its funny how one segment of our society always has to prove they deserve what white folks enjoy with out fear of becoming a statistic.
you do know the team has white football players on it...........................sheesh the lack of education by some of you , proves why we are in the situation we are in.
Uffda, you betcha.
Where did I complain about "What "I" Do " ?
Do you know what "Come to Jesus Moment" even means when speaking sarcastically ?
you got that right. we speak like that up here a lot.
lol
What part of MN are you in?
I was born and raised in Warroad and Red Lake.
But they play things like the Star Spangled Banner that he doesn't know the words.
No thanks i am a proud season ticket holder. you can boycott the NFL if you want.
I am in rogers MN and you know that either lutifisk or leftsa rule the holidays. And you also know that, the vikings organization does pretty good out reach and has programs that go on in the community.
so to me they put some of their money where there mouth is. And i can appreciate that!! SKOL VIKINGS!!
You now have the $84 million dollar man, let's hope that it pays off.
well the key i think this year will again be the defense. And i think cousins will not be the answer but a complement to the overall team potential.
i also think home field advantage will be helpful also like it was last year. the DIGGS touchdown is my ring tone.
Also the NEW practice facility will do alot of good because it allows for fans to sit around the outdoor football field , so no more trips to mankato for training practice.
either way i am excited.
and one thing that i love about football at least in person, is the fact that nothing matters.
no job status, no privilege, no rich or poor, no color, no race, no looks, all that matters is PURPLE PRIDE!!
SKOL VIKINGS!!
Cousins has some great receivers, so I am expecting a lot from him on that front.
They do have a stunning venue to play in and also their training facility is first class.
Now the only thing missing is a Super Bowl....
Now if the ''Purple People Eaters'' were in their prime....
This story is comical. I thought only like 5 or 6 players would be going anyway.
I'm sure the Eagles really, really, really, really care.
90% of them are just saying "we already said no man..."
At first, I did not know what Kaepernick was up to, when I found out his cause, I did not understand what sitting on the bench, and later taking a knee during the anthem had to do with protesting police brutality against people of colour...…………. (?) but I had no bitch to make about it...
Then BAM! out of the woodwork come the other teams planning bigger and better 'events' splashed all over the media - it became a circus of one ups, there was NO meaning left … after that, I quit watching football .. cancelled my NFL Sunday Ticket!
I am still a die hard Steelers fan - yet I doubt I will return to Sunday Monday nor Thursday night football..
Regarding the Eagles visiting the White House - that is another thing I never understood .. pro sports teams coming to the White House makes NO sense - however, Olympic Athletes coming to the White House makes sense.... : )
It's about giving people further inspiration IMO. You see people who have reached the pinnacle of their craft (for at least a year anyway) and are lauded for it. Gives people a bit more hope that they can also succeed.
I see what you are saying … and cannot argue with it, never thought of pro athletes being invited to the White House as giving people hope to succeed...
This is how bad and how embarrassing this would have been for Trump had he held the event.
According to NBC this morning, the entire team was going to travel to Washington DC today, but only the handful who wanted to meet Trump would go to the White House, and the rest of the team were going to go to other activities around the capitol (charity and promotional events). That would have been a humiliation for the narcissist in chief.
So a bunch of these pampered, unpatriotic millionaires had made it clear they weren't interested in being honored by the president of this great nation. Realizing this, the president called the whole thing off. And he's the bad guy in this? Please!
Why would anyone with a brain want to go there just to stroke Trumps fragile ego and listen to him tell how he won the game? I am sure Trump worshipers would, but, there are a lot of people in this world who would not.
That's so dumb. I mean, it's beyond dumb. They were invited there to be honored and praised by him. He already lives in the White House and has cameras pointed at him every day. He doesn't need the Eagles to get himself on TV. He doesn't need a football team to have a chance to brag about himself.
He invited them and they refused to come. That means Trump is the guy trying to bring people together and it's the leftists in this country who want to divide people. Those were their actions and that's what they mean. Like too many on the left, the people who refused the invitation are elitist snobs, too good to debase themselves by being seen with someone they disagree with. Pathetic!
I didn't agree with Obama a lot, but you can bet if he had invited me to the White House, I would have gone in a heartbeat. I would have shaken the man's hand and called him "Mr. President" with respect. That's not because of him. It's because I love this country and I believe in the Constitution and our major government institutions like the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court. I don't have to love everyone who holds positions in those places to treat them with respect - again, not because of the individual human but because of who I am and what I believe.
The entitled, leftist babies in this country need to grow the hell up.
Others appear to disagree with you. Your support for Trump regardless of how asinine and disrespectful of others he is seems to know no bounds.
Yep. People who haven't it thought it through.
First, as a general issue, that's simply untrue. I have criticized Trump on several occasions for his disrespectful comments.
On this specific issue, your comment might have merit if you had followed it with evidence of him actually being asinine and disrespectful to the Eagles. Instead you just made the accusation without offering support for it. In fact, we have evidence - that the Eagles do not dispute - that instead of sending the 80 or so people they originally planned on, they were only going to send a couple of people and the mascot. Now, that is asinine and disrespectful, and yet you defend them? That should shock the conscience of reasonable people.
They saw what he did at the Boy Scouts Jamboree. It was a vulgar ego-fest for him. I don't blame them at all for wanting no part of what would likely be the same.
Actually, it's your comment that's racist. You assume that only black people didn't want to accept the invitation. I made no such assumption. I know there are plenty of white people who support the kneeling or just hate Trump. White players were refusing to go, too, but you conveniently forget them. My criticism is for all of them.
Leftism is overflowing with racism. Too many modern leftists think only people of color are poor. They think only people of color are victims of crime. They think only people of color are abused by police. They think only people of color are in prisons. They think people of color are uniquely unable to obtain identification. They think issues of childcare or education only impact people of color. I make none of these assumptions. If you assume race is connected to my opinions because you think you heard a dog whistle or something, that's your own racism guiding you, not mine.
LOL. Is that supposed to make me feel bad for them? They ALREADY have millions of dollars. No one is going to take that away. The millions they have are not at risk. I'm supposed to be impressed because they risk not making even more millions in the future on top of what they already have? Are you serious? At least they have their existing millions to salve their wounded egos. The rest of us don't have that.
Because obviously they don't like his retarded ass and have no desire to be in his presence? Since when was it a requirement to accept an invitation from someone you hate?
Then they should have collectively manned-up from Day 1 and said so instead of weaseling out of it at the last minute.
That's the whole thing. They DID accept the invitation. Then they decided they didn't want to do it and tried to pretend Trump was the guy who was being a little bitch, not them.
Malcolm Jenkins on White House cancellation: 'We will continue to fight'
I love how he does it after almost all of them already told him to go fuck himself, and then acts like he is making the first move. He tried to preempt the Cavsor Warriors inevitable fuck you, but too late, Lebron already said neither team was going and Curry agreed, so that's that. He is the kid that uninvites you from a party after you already told him no.