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Donald Trump spent the past weekend using his Twitter account to add fuel to the fires of controversy surrounding the decision by some NFL athletes to take a knee during pre-game renditions of “The Star-Spangled Banner” as an act of protest against police brutality. The way Trump instigated the story can be taken as a preface to the way he will approach that time-tested issue in the culture wars: the “war on Christmas.”
Trump kicked off his football-centered media blitz last Friday with a speech in Alabama in which he told the crowd that he would like to see NFL owners fire players who choose to protest the singing of the national anthem, according to the Hill.
“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners,” Trump said. “When somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. He is fired.’”