Trump launches petition to force 'spineless' ESPN to air national anthem

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY ARIS FOLLEY - 08/22/18 05:08 PM EDT

President Trump has started a petition that urges his followers to denounce ESPN’s “spineless” move to no longer air the national anthem before NFL games this season.

“Just after we heard a sitting governor trash America, ESPN has now decided it will no longer play the National Anthem before Monday Night Football,” Trump says in an email sent out by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee on Wednesday.

The line is referring to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) remarks last week that “America was never that great," comments he later walked back.

“If ‘America’ is too offensive for anyone in our country, then what are they doing in America?” Trump’s letter continued.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/403122-trump-launches-petition-to-force-spineless-espn-to-air-national

[hibbing]

1. Glad he could cut into his golf game for this n/t

[jayschool2013]

2. Correction

"Crazy meth-addled Uncle Don launches petition from his fallout shelter to force 'spineless' ESPN to air national anthem."

[Racerdog1]

3. Eat shit

This fucking orange asshole is a joke. Can't wait for his sorry ass to get carried out under a sheet.

[Chemisse]

4. Distraction time.

More eye-catching security clearance repeals planned this morning; pull out the old tried-but-true Anthem issue this afternoon.

Somehow I don't think he can pull it off this time around. His legal problems are pretty shiny objects themselves.

[The Liberal Lion]

5. Oh my his poll numbers must be falling

time to kick the old dog of the NFL and rile up his toothless supporters 'cause 'Merica.

[tanyev]

6. Oh, a petition. How presidential.

[47of74]

7. ESPN does that my mute button comes on.

[Codeine]

8. "No longer air"?

They never really did. As I understand it’s only happened a few times, but in the main they start coverage after the preliminary bullshit.

[SCantiGOP]

24. Agree

The only time I can remember seeing it in recent years is before big games like the Super Bowl, and that is usually because they have a big name celebrity to sing it.

[underpants]

9. They've never aired it before

That was in their statement and from my memory we usually see a flag spanned across the field but that's it

[Dave Starsky]

10. Doesn't he have other, more important, things to talk about?

Like, the things that are currently on the news every minute of every day? The things that most Americans are concerned about?

If Trump is making a direct appeal to the people who give a shit about ESPN and the national anthem, then you know that he knows his base is dwindling.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Not the job of ESPN nor the NFL to broadcast the national anthem.

[SCVDem]

12. Pound sand fuckface!

Never served and never played football.

What a Whiny Little bitch!

[End Of The Road]

13. I rarely catch the national anthem

Too busy getting beer and snacks to the coffee table before kickoff.

[IncaRoads]

14. I wonder

If Don's obsession with the anthem goes back to his time spent in military school?

Maybe he sees it as a punishment thing that he wants everyone else to go through the way he did.

"OH FUCK! THE ANTHEM! I REMEMBER HEARING IT EVERYDAY AS A SIGNAL BEFORE I HAD TO EXERCISE AND LEARN IN A DISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENT! EVERYONE ELSE MUST HONOR MY SUFFERING!"

He is similar to a trained rat.

[BBG]

15. Excellent observation

I think

[jmowreader]

25. No, it's a dog whistle

The basket of Deplorables loves the Bible, the flag and the national anthem. By exploiting those symbols he brings them closer to him.

If anyone has a transcript of his West Virginia rally, go through it and see if he said anything about children and church. By talking about his mom’s Thanksgiving turkey he already addressed cooking, and since he’s about one step from being a full-bore Nazi, the other two would drop right in.

[BHDem53]

16. This from the #1 putie bootlicker.

[Mc Mike]

18. Yeah, he's such a defender of America and Americanism.

So patriotic.

[Mc Mike]

17. He's focused on the important things...

Nothing else he needs to be doing or thinking about now.

[maxrandb]

19. AGAIN, his beef with the NFL has nothing to do with the Anthem

or patriotism or love of country.

He hates the NFL because they kicked his ass to the curb REPEATEDLY!

NFL owners blocked every attempt he made to own an NFL franchise, ruling that he lacked the business savvy, intelligence and decorum to run a team.

When NFL owners say you're too corrupt and ignorant to own a football team... that's saying something.

Maybe we should have listened to them.

The media needs to add a proviso to every story about Donnie Short Fingers and the NFL.

They should begin these stories with; "Donnie Short Fingers, who was repeatedly voted down in his ownership bids by NFL owners, again attacked the NFL today"

Has a bit of a different ring to it then the stories they're broadcasting, huh???

It's not hard to find, just google Trump NFL ownership bids.

[aggiesal]

23. It has to do with players kneeling ...

but not just players.
It's black players kneeling.
He's a racist at heart.

If it were white people kneeling, you think he'd complain?
Of course not, he would be joining in.

I'd like to know what he would do if more white players supported
their black teammates and joined in.

[Spartacus101]

20. Oldest game is salesmanship...

..the Titanic's going down, and Donnie is running around on the deck holding rallies, and yelling, "Look! There goes a chicken...!"

Distract, distract, distract.

Would you buy a used car from this guy?

[noneof_theabove]

21. well...

some 70,000 people living in specific electorial college districts did.

and now we are paying the insurance premiums on the train wreck when the car failed on the railroad track.

He is a FAILED Con Artist.
A real con artist knows you have to maintain the lie and deception to continue the game.

[jmowreader]

26. Hunter Thompson's apology to Nixon fits here

As I remember, HST was rather hard on Nixon for a while and the White House demanded an apology. HST printed: Richard Nixon, so far as I know, does not fuck pigs or sell used cars with cracked blocks. Nor is he corrupt beyond the ability of moral man to describe it.

Years later Nixon died and HST wrote: Nixon was so crooked he needed servants to screw his pants on in the morning.

Years later, we got Donald Trump as president. He is worse than Nixon ever dreamed of being.

[aggiesal]

22. Look over here! Look over here! ...

Don't pay any attention to Cohen or Manifort.

I want to create a distraction and rile up my base.

Is it working?

[dembotoz]

27. Let show video to see if manafort stands in prison cell during anthem

[Sancho]

28. I'll sign if tRump proves he knows the words!