Seems #Trump had to round up staffers/Fake Eaglesffans to populate the WH lawn
to their own party!
sports — Mike Sielski
An absurd afternoon at the White House with Donald Trump, and without the Eagles
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/mike_sielski/eagles-white-house-trump-national-anthem-fans-20180605.html
Updated: June 5, 2018 — 9:22 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – It was right around the time that the CNN reporter was doing her standup at the front of the White House briefing room Tuesday afternoon, synopsizing for who-knows-how-many viewers the very grave and very serious standoff between President Trump and the Eagles, that the absurdity of the entire affair began to sink in. The room, by general consensus, was more crowded than usual, and both the temperature and humidity were rising, and in the back, two political reporters had this exchange:
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“Is this all about the national anthem thing?”
“Probably a lot of people came for it, and now they’re slumming.”
What we came for, of course, was the White House Visit That Wasn’t. The Eagles – a few of them, anyway – were supposed to be there. Then Trump rescinded the invitation and announced that the White House would hold a “celebration of America” instead, complete with the United States Marine Band and the United States Army Chorus and the understanding that what was once a lighthearted photo op for any team fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl had become another display of excessive politics and tribalism.
The story had been evolving throughout the morning. Once multiple media outlets reported that the Eagles had planned to send a small contingent Tuesday – just four to 10 individuals, including Swoop, the team’s mascot – the White House released a statement accusing the Eagles of “abandoning their fans,” which was a particularly silly charge. For one thing, 25,000-30,000 of those fans had just shown up at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night to watch some Eagles players participate in a charity softball game. Talk about loyalty. For another thing, have you ever tried to abandon an Eagles fan? It can’t be done. They tweet at you. They chase you down in parking lots. They find you in a coffee shop, plop down across from you, and assume you have nothing better to do than discuss Nate Sudfeld’s arm talent for 20 minutes. They’re relentless.
As it turned out, there weren’t many of them on the South Lawn, either. Many of the people on the lawn were men in their 20s and 30s, and they wore navy blue suits and ties, or navy blue blazers and khakis, and most of them had short haircuts and appeared to have just showered, and all of them held American flags. I’ve seen Eagles fans. Generally, they don’t look like that. “We’re all staffers,” one of them said. Jenna Webster, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is interning at the Republican National Committee, said that she had received a mass email from the White House earlier in the day, inviting her to attend the event. She was not visibly bothered that the Eagles had abandoned her..............................
after he uninvited the Eagles to their own party!
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