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Donald Trump on NFL: 'If they don't stand for the national anthem, I hope they don't open'

President Donald Trump called into Clay Travis’s Fox Sports radio show on Tuesday morning to talk about the impact of COVID-19 on sports, but he couldn’t resist hitting on his favorite topic: athletes protesting by kneeling during the national anthem.

After talking about Tom Brady’s move from the New England Patriots to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Trump discussed the NFL as a whole. He complimented the NFL and team owners for working with “government” to open their season safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but said that he’d rather there be no professional football this year if players choose to kneel during the anthem.