Trump Picked A Fight With NFL & NBA And Got Smacked Hard In Response

Donald Trump thought it would be a wise move at an Alabama rally on Friday evening to call pro athletes protesting police violence “sons of bitches.” Players from both the NFL and NBA (and even a NASCAR driver) immediately fired back at Trump, and pro sports games throughout the weekend were filled with protests from players, coaches, and owners. Trump lost this fight, but he still insists on trying to fan the flames of hate, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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On Friday evening during a speech in Alabama, Donald Trump decided to take aim, for some reason, at NFL players, specifically Colin Kaepernick, who decided to take a knee during the national anthem, a trend that started during the pre-season back in 2016. And Colin Kaepernick, again, the very first person to do that, to protest police brutality and the murder of African-Americans throughout this country by police officers.

Well, Friday night, Donald Trump goes in front of a crowd in Alabama and decides to refer to those players, he didn't mention anybody by name, but he called them Sons of Bitches.

Well, that went over about as well as you would expect, with both members of the NBA and the NFL, Donald Trump eventually rescinded an offer for the Golden State Warriors, the NBA champions, to come visit the White House, to which Lebron James immediately lashed out at the president, saying, "You know what? It used to be an honor to go to the White House, but now that you're there, it's really not."

But it was the NFL that really took center stage this weekend as Donald Trump, after that speech in Alabama on Friday, continued throughout Saturday and Sunday to tweet out insults against people in the NFL players, coaches, owners, everyone because they decided to make a stand. And in response to Trump's statements, the entire NFL decided to take a stand by taking a knee on Sunday.

Most teams, most players showed some form of solidarity to the cause of police brutality, which Donald Trump immediately turned into talk of disrespecting our flag. See, here's what happened. A lot of teams just stayed in the locker rooms and didn't even come out for the National Anthem.

In two separate games, the person who actually sang the National Anthem ended up taking a knee after that was done. Many team owners and coaches came on to the field, linked arms with the players to show solidarity. Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, came out and denounced Trump's statements.

Many other owners and players, including Donald Trump's close friends Craft, who owns the Patriots, and Tom Brady of the Patriots himself, spoke out against Donald Trump's comments. But Trump insisted that this entire issue was only about these players disrespecting the flag, and according to Trump, it had nothing to do with race at all.

Well, that statement alone, first of all, it's completely false. Donald Trump called out black NFL and NBA players, because he's a racist, but if you think none of this had anything to do about race, then you're just as dumb as the president of the United States, because this entire thing started because of race.

Because of the fact that black people in this country, unarmed black people in this country, were being shot and killed by police in the United States and those police never got held accountable for this. We had another one a week ago, where a cop brutally murdered a black man. Evidence suggests that he planted a gun on the man and he got away with murder.

Won't spend a day in prison. That is what these people are protesting. It's not about disrespecting a piece of cloth, it's not about disrespecting people who served in the military. It's about fighting for the same freedoms that they went overseas and fought for. But Donald Trump and the Republicans in this country don't seem to understand that.