Nearly three years after Donald Trump called NFL players protesting during the national anthem "a son of a b----" at a political rally in Alabama — sparking a surge in demonstrations across the league — the president continued to poke at the issue just before midnight Sunday night in a tweet directed at NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
"Could it be even remotely possible that in Roger Goodell’s rather interesting statement of peace and reconciliation, he was intimating that it would now be O.K. for the players to KNEEL, or not to stand, for the National Anthem, thereby disrespecting our Country & our Flag?