Trump Criticizing Colin Kaepernick & Praising White Supremacists In This One Photo Sums It Up Perfec
Trump Criticizing Colin Kaepernick & Praising White Supremacists In This One Photo Sums It Up Perfectly
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ByCHRIS TOGNOTTI 2 hours ago
On Friday, during a rally in Alabama, President Donald Trump made news with some searing remarks towards professional athletes who've protested during the national anthem, the highest-profile of which is former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Standing in front of a crowd of supporters, Trump said NFL owners should say "get that son of a b*tch off the field" to players who protest during the anthem. And let's just say that's a harsher condemnation than he's had for some people, as this image about Trump's response to NFL players protesting racism pretty much says it all.
The image, tweeted out by Judd Legum of ThinkProgress on Saturday afternoon, puts some faces to the gap between how reluctant Trump's been to condemn even overt bigots and racists, versus how aggressively he's attacked high-profile anti-racist demonstrators like Kaepernick. On one side, a photo of the torch-wielding neo-Nazi demonstration that descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, and on the other, a photo of Kaepernick and his former 49ers teammate Eric Reid kneeling during the anthem last year.
Each image bears a quote of what Trump said about them. On the torch-waving white supremacist demonstrators, who among other things chanted "Jews will not replace us" while marching in support of Confederate monuments: "Very fine people."
And on the image of Kaepernick and Reid quietly kneeling before a football game: "Sons of b*tches."
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