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'No Thanks!': Trump Criticizes American Football Players Taking a Knee on Thanksgiving Day

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Deshuan Watson of the Houston Texans and Matthew Stafford of the Detroit Lions were among players in the two teams that knelt before their Thanksgiving Day match.
President Donald Trump criticized American football players on Thanksgiving Day for taking a knee during the national anthem before a game between the Houston Texans and Detroit Lions. « No thanks! » the president tweeted in response to a video of quarterbacks Deshuan Watson of the Houston Texans and Matthew Stafford of the Detroit Lions taking a knee on Thursday afternoon. Watson and Stafford were among players in the two teams that knelt before their Thanksgiving Day match in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. National Football League (NFL) footage showed a number of players kneeling in protest of police brutality and systemic racism at the start of the season, but the protests have since wound down. In September, Stafford explained that he started kneeling during the national anthem because it « just felt like it was the right thing at the time.

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