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Dozens of NFL players knelt or sat during the national anthem Sunday in righteous reaction to President’s Trump’s profane comments about how owners should fire the SOBs who dare exercise their constitutional rights.
The players’ defiance was well earned, but Trump’s insult — under Friday night klieg lights in Alabama — was deeper and more contemptuous than merely calling for their jobs or calling them names. He also mocked rules meant to make them marginally more safe in a violent game.
“You hit too hard — 15 yards,” Trump said, mentioning he’d recently watched a couple of minutes of an NFL game. “Two guys, just a really beautiful tackle” — and here he bumped his tiny fists together — “boom, 15 yards.”
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So it isn’t just that Trump doesn’t want to hear what players think. He doesn’t care if they can think at all, years from now.
And it’s not the first time he’s expressed this sort of callousness. On the campaign trail in 2016, he sneered: “Concussions — ‘uh-oh, got a little ding on the head?’ ”
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