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More Biased Bbc Reporting
Donald Trump says that sportsmen who make public personal protests during the playing of the American national anthem should be fired. For the BBC, the news isn't the protest, or even that Trump retaliated, no, the news is spun in such a way that it is that his patriotic statements have been 'condemned by various sportsmen'. Or have I got it all wrong?
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Since when is criticising a country at all tantamount to hating it?
Also, I don't see any meaningful spin. Here is Trump, at a time when he has Hurricane damage, Healthcare debates in the summit, a Tax Reform and Infrastructure bill in the offing, and the ever-increasing tensions with North Korea and Iran, taking time away from such minutiae to focus on the important problem of sportsmen who want to protest about things they see as wrong with the country. Rightly or wrongly, they have that right, and it's both surprising and entirely predictable that Trump would rather talk about this than about actually important stuff.
Also, I don't see any meaningful spin. Here is Trump, at a time when he has Hurricane damage, Healthcare debates in the summit, a Tax Reform and Infrastructure bill in the offing, and the ever-increasing tensions with North Korea and Iran, taking time away from such minutiae to focus on the important problem of sportsmen who want to protest about things they see as wrong with the country. Rightly or wrongly, they have that right, and it's both surprising and entirely predictable that Trump would rather talk about this than about actually important stuff.
He spent a surprisingly large amount of time yapping about it. The BBC article stated that "Trump knows his audience", which is certainly fair comment -- he's done a good job of whipping up crowds, although oddly they seem happy to forget that he whips them up with false promises that he had no intention of keeping (remember the "Lock her up!" chants from the campaign, that he actively encouraged, and were directed at his opponent Hillary Clinton? Disgusting -- and tolerated anyway).
It does seem to be the thing in USA to play their National Anthem at every opportunity and expect everybody to actively participate, let alone respectfully observe it.
I'm not sure what the response would be if the FA suddenly insisted that our National Anthem was played before every football match up and down the country.
The football players are there to play football.
I'm not sure what the response would be if the FA suddenly insisted that our National Anthem was played before every football match up and down the country.
The football players are there to play football.
