Rachel Maddow had an interesting piece on how Nixon did a similar thing in the 1970s - coopting a social movement moment in order to stoke division in the country and "win back his base" - basically the same thing Trump is doing here.
Bottom line: The first amendment protects an individual's freedom to speak, protest, and assemble. The NFL is a private organization and they have the right to make their own code of conduct rules which forbid such public protests (there are reasonable arguments for why such rules should and shouldn't be in place, but that's neither here nor there) and the :vomit: president of the United States advocating that a private entity fire employees for exercising their first amendment rights which, as far as I've heard, aren't in violation of NFL rules is just fuckin' nuts.
Trump never had any intention of upholding and defending the Constitution when he took his oath of office. He has always always always had his eye on on the money and how he could parlay more of it into his pockets.
He's a monstrous asshole and a despicable human and every single day that he remains the leader of the country I live in I am embarrassed.
Bottom line: The first amendment protects an individual's freedom to speak, protest, and assemble. The NFL is a private organization and they have the right to make their own code of conduct rules which forbid such public protests (there are reasonable arguments for why such rules should and shouldn't be in place, but that's neither here nor there) and the :vomit: president of the United States advocating that a private entity fire employees for exercising their first amendment rights which, as far as I've heard, aren't in violation of NFL rules is just fuckin' nuts.
Trump never had any intention of upholding and defending the Constitution when he took his oath of office. He has always always always had his eye on on the money and how he could parlay more of it into his pockets.
He's a monstrous asshole and a despicable human and every single day that he remains the leader of the country I live in I am embarrassed.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.