Many of the "Eagles Fans" at Trump's Patriotism Rally Looked Suspiciously Like WH...Interns

[babylonsister]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/eagles-fans-at-white-house-trump-flag-rally-interns-apparently-included.html

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Many of the “Eagles Fans” at Trump’s Patriotism Rally Looked Suspiciously Like White House and Congressional Interns

By Ben Mathis-Lilley
June 05, 20185:20 PM


After canceling a planned appearance by Philadelphia Eagles players on the grounds that the team doesn’t sufficiently respect the national anthem (despite none of them having kneeled during the national anthem last season), the White House went forward Tuesday afternoon with what was described as a “celebration of the American flag” that “1,000 Eagles fans” had supposedly been cleared to attend.

As you can see above, the crowd at the rally—which involved the president standing on stage and mouthing some, but not all, of the words to songs like “God Bless America”—did not resemble your typical football spirit gathering. One Philadelphia-area TV reporter who attended wrote on Twitter that he found only one person wearing Eagles gear and none that could name the team’s starting Super Bowl quarterback. (The York Daily Record did interview two Pennsylvania business owners on their way to the event, of whom at least one appears to be a Republican donor.)

In what is likely a related matter, when I was a Senate intern in the summer of 2002, the other interns and I were aggressive in finding opportunities to leave the office (and to thus ignore our our job responsibilities) in order to attend ostensibly educational or newsworthy events that involved free food or proximity to famous people.

[Zoonart]

1. White as a snowstorm too,

[Blue_true]

5. I saw one picture and looked so hard for a POC that my eyeballs almost fell out when I found one. n

[Totally Tunsie]

2. More than likely, they had to use their lunch hour to attend.

[underpants]

3. Reminds me of the Brooks Brothers Riot in 2000

[babylonsister]

4. Haha! Looks like they're cheering? nt

[underpants]

7. Republican staffers sent to Florida to look like locals

They chanted LET US IN! which both disrupted the recount and was PR to look like the Dems were keeping voters out of the process. The mainstream media read the script as usual.

[kimbutgar]

6. It was a fricking made up photo op for twitler

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The white House staff knew the Eagles were not attending days ago. Someone pulled
This photo op together to gin up racist shit to make twittler look good for his supporters. So friggin obvious now. We fall daily for this bs stuff everyday.

[BigmanPigman]

14. Not even Melanie appeared.

But the crowds were HUGE! Biggest EVER! Bigger than after they won.

[left-of-center2012]

8. "Looked Suspiciously Like White House and Congressional Interns"

[hatrack]

10. Ah! Philadelphia Eagles photo IDs and lanyards!

[Beartracks]

12. Best dressed American sports fans ever. n/t

[procon]

9. No one was wearing Eagles gear.

Should have been a sea of green, some flags, hats, signs... but those Eagles fans had nothing to show support for their team.

[hvn_nbr_2]

19. None of them could even name the Eagles Super Bowl quarterback

Saw on MSNBC that someone (don't remember who) asked a bunch of them and none could name him. The whole thing was a fraud.

[Botany]

11. According to one report not one person of about a dozen asked could name the ...

.... the QB who played for the Eagles in the Super Bowl.

BTW it was Nick Foles and he won the MVP for that game.

[uppityperson]

13. Omg, this"crowd" picture

[trixie2]

15. A sea of white

Yep, it's staff.

[uppityperson]

17. A small lake, perhaps. It's not enough for a sea.

[babylonsister]

18. I'd say mud puddle. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. WH sed "if anyone wanted to attend, they could"

which we know damn well their syncopated boss would order them to show.

Did that shit get any serious news coverage?