POLICE/RACISM/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said National Football League players who don’t want to stand for the national anthem perhaps ‘shouldn’t be in the country,’ and spoke approvingly of a new league rule aimed at curbing protests on the field, in an interview that aired Thursday [5-24-18] morning. Mr. Trump taped remarks for Fox News Channel’s ‘Fox & Friends’ Wednesday [5-23-18] afternoon, soon after the NFL announced that teams could be fined if players were on the field during the national anthem and did not ‘stand and show respect.’ The league also said that players could remain in the locker room without penalty, and left teams with the power of how, or if, to discipline players who violate the new rules…The president had exhorted the league to discipline players who knelt during pregame anthem performances in protest of police violence and discrimination against minorities last year, at one point suggesting owners ‘get that son of a bitch off the field now.'”
-Louise Radnofsky, “Trump Suggests Football Players Who Protest Anthem ‘Shouldn’t Be in the Country’,” The Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2018 8:32 am