One of the major problems the NFL has been having with the issue of player protests during the national anthem is that while league officials desperately want the whole thing to go away, President Donald Trump might not. Criticisms of protests, and the league’s handling of them, have been a frequent theme for Trump in his tweets and speeches at rallies, amid strong indications that he thinks his hard-line stance plays well with his base.
That has greatly exacerbated the problem for the NFL, but Aaron Rodgers has a solution: Just "ignore" the president's provocative commentary.
“I think that the more that we give credence to stuff like that, the more it’s going to live on,” the Packers quarterback said Monday to NFL.