Trump and Pence ignore troops killed in action while attacking NFL for disrespecting troops
In a bout of widely mocked political theater, Mike Pence and Donald Trump tried desperately to reignite their sagging cultural war with the NFL by staging an expensive Pence walk-out of a game on Sunday.
The stunt was clearly planned well in advance, and Pence elaborately advertised the move via Twitter with a long string of messages about how vitally important it is for America’s future that every professional athlete stand during a three-minute anthem.
Trump backed Pence, suggesting he put Pence up to the NFL walk-out. After the howls of protests, Trump then seemed to backtrack and claim the VP’s trip to the football game had been “long planned.”
The entire premise of the flimsy, expensive stunt paid for by U.S. taxpayers is that Pence and Trump are standing up for U.S. troops because somehow NFL players who silently protest inequality on the sidelines during the anthem are insulting the U.S. military. (They’re not.)
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