There's a difference between dissent and disloyalty
Much in the manner of his peers among the heels of pro wrestling, President Donald Trump finds an injury in an opponent and ruthlessly pounds away at it until the script calls for a weepy submission. And he’ll still toss the loser over the turnbuckle and onto the floor.
That’s where the NFL owners lie these days.
But the cold concrete nap looks like it might be a real coma.
The decision by many Eagles players to snub the traditional White House salute for NFL champions, quickly followed this week by the president’s “disinvitation” to the event, inflamed anew the divisive issue of the propriety of social-issues protests during the anthem.
Despite the fact that players who knelt or gestured did nothing to disrupt the anthem, the game or the belligerent drunks in close seats profanely taunting the players, lots of football fans didn’t like it, which is all the president needed to aggravate and agitate.
The recent decision by owners to require players to be “respectful” of the flag on the sideline, or else stay in the locker room — teams would be fined if players protested on the field — was a futile attempt at appeasement, the fourth misstep in a string of miscalculations that has put the NFL in the crosshairs of the the uproarious fight that the nation is having with itself.
While Trump initially hailed the owners’ nonsensical decision to hide the protesters as a win for him, this week he tweeted a taunt ahead of Monday’s silly replacement ceremony for the Eagles’ no-show: “no escaping to Locker Rooms!”
To deploy a cultural expression taken from football to describe inconsistent decision-making, Trump moved the goalposts.
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