New season, same Trump: The president again blasts NFL players for protests during national anthem
by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times
Aug 10, 2018
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was quick to respond to the first player protests of the new football season, tweeting Friday morning that "the NFL players are at it again" after a few players knelt or performed other acts of remonstration during the national anthem before the team's first preseason game Thursday night.
By his two tweets, the president signaled that for a third straight season he would stoke the divisive issue he first fanned as a candidate just before
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