Trump on NFL and Nike: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Appropriate’ What Nike Did

Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth grabbed time with President Donald Trump on a Billings, Montana stage just after last night’s rally on the same night that the NFL season started. It was a perfect opportunity to introduce the favorite White House wedge issue of NFL player protesting what they see as unjust treatment by police towards people of color by kneeling during the National Anthem.

Honestly I don’t know what the NFL is doing from. What I understanding it’s in contract that you have to stand for the national anthem. They have some where it says you will will stand. You will have the helmet on the ground and hand on the heart. That’s what it says. I don’t know why they’re not enforcing it and in cases where they don’t have it, they have a new thing where they don’t have to do that. You don’t have to kneel. You can go back into the locker room. I think that’s worse than kneeling in a certain way. You are going back. In that shows you just have no respect for the anthem or the flag.

I don’t like what Nike did. I don’t think it’s appropriate what they did. I honor the flag. I honor our national anthem. And most of the people in this country feel the same way.

Since Trump reportedly loves starting his day watching his favorite show Fox & Friends, he may have liked what he saw in this clip this morning when he hit a similar anti-Nike note this morning via Twitter:

What was Nike thinking?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 7, 2018

Watch the clip above courtesy of Fox News.

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