President Donald Trump, in an interview on Fox Sports Radio on Tuesday morning, returned to one of his favorite culture war targets — athletes kneeling during the national anthem — claiming the National Basketball Association is in „big trouble“ because the vast majority of the league takes a kne…
President Donald Trump, in an interview on Fox Sports Radio on Tuesday morning, returned to one of his favorite culture war targets — athletes kneeling during the national anthem — claiming the National Basketball Association is in „big trouble“ because the vast majority of the league takes a knee, and attacked the league’s players and coaches, describing them as „very nasty, very, very nasty and frankly very dumb.“ Taking a knee during the national anthem, a controversial practice begun by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, has come into renewed focus in the wake Geroge Floyd’s death, amid a nationwide reckoning over systemic racism.
