Karl Rove Hits Trump Over NFL Protests: 'He's Walking Away from This a Loser'

[DonViejo]

by Justin Baragona | 10:45 am, September 24th, 2017

This morning during the NFL’s first game of the day, a bunch of players on both sidelines knelt during the national anthem while other players and Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan stood arm-in-arm. This came after two days worth of President Donald Trump’s attacks on NFL players and Colin Kaepernick for protesting racial injustice on the playing field.

With Trump continuing those attacks this morning via Twitter, former White House advisor and current Fox News contributor Karl Rove pointed out that this issue appears to be a losing one for the president.

Noting that there are better ways for Trump to address this issue, Rove explained that the president should try to do more to make people want to stand in front of the flag and why they should do it, even if there are “imperfections” in America’s history. He then highlighted why Trump will lose on this issue.

“We salute the flag, because the struggles and the sacrifices of generations of Americans to make this a better country. That is why we stand and salute our flag and why we put our hand over our heart. He could have come away the winner. Instead, he is walking away from this a loser in the minds of the American people for exactly the reasons you pointed out. He was against the federal government interfering and telling the Washington Redskins what their name should be. Now he is saying fire those people if they do not stand and respect the flag. He ought to be an aspirational figure.”

-snip- (one sentence about more kneelings expected today)

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/karl-rove-hits-trump-over-nfl-protests-hes-walking-away-from-this-a-loser/

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. One lying HamHead criticizing the lying words of another HamHead. It's time for church.

[DK504]

2. We salute the flag, because the struggles and the sacrifices of generations of Americans

... to make this a better country."

Speaking against the status quo and injustice is another way to make this a better country. I heard to many red necks saying you don't have if you don't grovel over the 'flag' or the psychotic extremists. Groveling is very 'American' to me.

[Achilleaze]

3. Hey, he* walked into it a loser

He lost the frikken election by 3 million votes. Total loser. Had to have russian buddies help him out with treason against the USA. Loser. Total republican loser, losing yet again. Sad.


* Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Dave Starsky]

4. He has been a persistent loser this entire time.

If he weren't being constantly propped up and normalized by the damn mainstream media, he wouldn't have lasted a week. We would have long forgotten about him by now.

In EVERY OTHER parallel universe that exists, Donald Trump is a failed real estate salesman who is now trying his luck selling "opportunities" in a multilevel marketing scheme. He is sitting in a Denny's drinking a Coke and playing pull-tabs while he waits for his next mark to arrive. If the guy doesn't show up (and he won't; Trump doesn't know that the man's wife had a "talk" with him about it just a few minutes ago), then maybe, just maybe, Trump can sneak out without paying for the Coke. That worked last time.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[malaise]

6. Even Rove knows he's a fucking lunatic

He was against the federal government interfering and telling the Washington Redskins what their name should be. Now he is saying fire those people if they do not stand and respect the flag...