I continue to be shocked and appalled by this Jemele Hill situation. From the very beginning, ESPN has bungled this. Jemele Hill was suspended yesterday for merely tweeting over the weekend about certain NFL owners saying that they will suspend or fire players for kneeling or protesting during the National Anthem. This is the political circus Donald Trump wants – he doesn’t want to talk about Puerto Rico or FEMA or taxes or healthcare or even North Korea. He is simple-minded and he is only able to grasp simple, pop-culture-y controversies. After Jemele Hill simply made factual statements about Trump’s white supremacy, the White House’s OFFICIAL position was that a private citizen should be fired from her job for tweeting facts. And now Jemele Hill has been suspended for merely discussing a boycott of the NFL, which… again, is something that Donald Trump himself has brought up in tweets. So, here are Trump’s tweets today:
Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country? Change tax law!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2017
With Jemele Hill at the mike, it is no wonder ESPN ratings have "tanked," in fact, tanked so badly it is the talk of the industry!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2017
First of all, the NFL should not have tax breaks. Every so often, Donald Trump accidentally falls into an okay opinion. Of course, he comes at this opinion in the completely wrong way: he wants to take away the NFL’s tax breaks because individual players are peacefully protesting. The NFL’s tax breaks should be taken away because the NFL is a multi-billion-dollar corporation and the tax breaks are corporate welfare. The NFL is a welfare queen.
As for the tweet about Jemele Hill and ratings… this is the world we live in now and I will never get used to it. The #NotMyPresident of the United States using his public platform to denigrate a private citizen and a sports media company for being critical of him. What’s worse is that ESPN HAS HIS BACK. ESPN is on his f–king side!!! People need to be fired at ESPN and none of those people are Jemele Hill.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
It’s all personal to President Moron. The NFL rejected his proposed merger for his pathetic United States Football League and 25 years later the moron is getting his revenge. First to go after black athletes all under the fake excuse of patriotism, then he attacks the owners for the same reason.
He is seriously mentally ill.
It’s just incredible. I always thought he was an egotistical idiot but to be so motivated by revenge is sick. You know the reason he’s so focused on dismantling everything Obama did is because of the put down Obama had on him during that press corp dinner thing.
He’s also crazy jealous of Obama.
No, Trump had a hate-on for Obama long before the dinner. His nonsense about Obama not being born in the USA began well before that, Obama had already gotten his long form birth certificate from Hawaii released by the date of the dinner to try to shut up Trump. The Presidential run came years later, and it’s pretty clear that Trump was just hoping to get some publicity so he could get more $$$$ for another tv show. He had no intention of winning, explaining his shell-shocked look when he won.
Trump really doesn’t like black people. He happily refused to rent to them when he was younger, and later he said he didn’t want any black accountants handling his Precious Money. He repeated various stereotypic slurs about people of African descent at that point. That is the reason he really went after Obama. It wasn’t about any politician differences. Imagine Trump’s surprise when he visited the US Virgin Islands (after escaping from those “lazy freeloading” Puerto Ricans) and found them full of black people, and in the government too rather than just in their place as servants for white tourists. Oh, the horror!
Anyway, Trump honestly doesn’t have a sense of humor. He hated the dinner because everybody was joking about him, not just Obama. Don’t know what he expected, that’s normal for the dinner. For some bizarre reason he thought everybody would be in awe of him rather than laughing at him. But he does live in a rather thick bubble.
@indianajoanna
+1,000
Revenge is his only motivation. It’s like a vampire with blood.
Who doesn’t he have a vendetta against? Who isn’t he holding a grudge against?
He’s using the office of POTUS to even old scores and past wrongs against him.
Basically. And we saw it coming. He was always going to be the Revenger in Chief.
Which is what a dictator does. When will people open their f***ing eyes and see him for what he is.
Ha ha. Trying to take tax breaks AWAY from rich guys will be his downfall. You’re supposed to go in the other direction, Donald.
Watch a slew of rich guys wake up and smell the covfefe. Trump can go after women and anybody not white without making them blink, but once he goes after the rich people’s money – that’s the end of tolerance for him.
Mueller must really be getting very close to nailing Trump for President Tweeter to be so absolutely obsessed with NFL players kneeling. The need to distract us must be yuuuge.
Can you use a picture of a kitten or puppy instead of that hideous face? I can’t look at him without my blood pressure rising.
Can he just go to prison already?
There is a chrome extension that replaced all pictures of the Orange Moron with a kitten picture.
The most punchable face in political history. And that’s saying something.
Yes because taxes are punishment.The emperor must show his power.
My co worker and I are having coffee and our usual morning discussion about how fcuked everything has been since last November. Every day it is either horrifying news, worrisome news, irritating news, exasperating news. This “presidency” has been a long, bad dream. I am constantly having apocalyptic nightmares about the end of the world, nuclear war, mass shootings.
I get you. I wake up every morning wondering if we have entered WWIII or have exchanged nuclear bombs with NK or Iran. Also, last week had a lightening hit (close by) that sounded like a bomb going off and wondered what happened. Since no major damage was done, assumed a transformer blew, but I have never heard anything like it before.
F*ck you trump.
I’m so sick of this freak I can’t even compose an articulate response. God please don’t let this all end with WW3.
“First of all, the NFL should not have tax breaks. Every so often, Donald Trump accidentally falls into an okay opinion. Of course, he comes at this opinion in the completely wrong way: he wants to take away the NFL’s tax breaks because individual players are peacefully protesting. The NFL’s tax breaks should be taken away because the NFL is a multi-billion-dollar corporation and the tax breaks are corporate welfare. The NFL is a welfare queen.”
Thank you for saying this. Trump is wrong but it is also wrong that the NFL is getting tax breaks. I live in Atlanta where we just handed Arthur Blank — who is a multi-biliionaire — $300 million cash for a new Falcons stadium, plus we are paying the interest on the remaining loans.
Meanwhile half the city is missing sidewalks and the Atlanta Public School system is short of money. Personally I would like to see all pro sports leagues lose their monopoly exemptions, tax breaks, and free public stadiums, not just the NFL and certainly not over this free speech issue.
YEEESSSS!!!! I’m always shocked that this is not more widely known.
NFL TEAMS ARE NONPROFITS. It’s sick. To be a non-profit you have to give away only 5% of your income.
Meanwhile, they’re operating tax free, and tax payers are footing the bill for these ridiculous stadiums while the owners become billionaires. It’s sick.
(Despite all of this, I can’t bring myself to say Trump is right… lol)
Agree, the NFL has gotten away with paying no taxes for decades.
But President Moron is doing this out of spite. It started with his disparaging of the players exercising their first amendment rights and now it is blackmail. All because President Moron was humiliated years ago.
We tried that in St. Louis to keep the Rams. Thank goodness Kronke turned us down!
Local and state governments routinely give tax breaks as an incentive for companies to locate in their community or state. But if you do the math, the loss in tax revenue and extra costs required to meet the company’s needs may not be offset by any economic benefit.
Don’t know if the same is true for sports teams, but it’s the same principle. They assume that the team and the stadium encourages people to buy stuff from local businesses in particular along with the usual assumption that they create local jobs. People should just do the math to figure it out. Sounds like a great John Oliver project.
I thought it was “mic”, not “mike”. mic drop. microphone. microwave? (bad joke)
ok! so much to unpack from this weekend past.
I certainly hope every single player of the Dallas Cowboys sinks to one knee this sunday. Let them try to win, which is what they ultimately want (gotta get that money), when every player in benched. I pray for this, and I don’t even believe in god.
Both mic and mike are correct in US English. I’m seeing mic more and more but I always misprounce it in my head. I grew up with “mike”.
It’s World Mental Health Day and I can’t with this a**hole.
IKR. This shit never stops.
So kneeling is bad but black men getting shot by cops is ok? Got it!
His vitriol has nothing to do with the flag or kneeling for police brutality. This has everything to do with the fact that the NFL basically took his ass to court and won when he tried to use the courts to bully his way into getting into the league. He probably hates Jerry Jones because Jones got what Dump wanted back in 1989 and legit made The Cowboys the most valuable sports franchise when Dump’s team folded within two years of him buying the NJ Generals.
Now that he is the puppet in chief, he thinks he is going to settle a score with Jerry and other owners by doing what he is doing…and he really is since Jerry and the others in the league are capitualating to that bloviating toad.
I’m so tired of this #bum ass president, I don’t think I can take 4 full years of this.
Ha ha!! The ballless wonder owners suck up to Trump re “the flag” and this is his response?? TAX them??? You cannot make this up! Maybe the owners will start a protest😀
How is this joke still president?
Donald Trump is trying to get the owners to fall in line.
Well, he has two of them in line!
In my dreams, 2017 is the year that takes down the NFL and macho/militaristic sports culture and Hollywood mistreatment of women on and off screen. May have to settle for NY State indictments for money-laundering for people around POTUS and maybe an IQ bake-off for POTUS and his Sec’y of State. Or failing that, Javanka moving back to NYC in disgrace. I dunno. It seems like the whole system is rotten top to bottom, sometimes.
Here’s an old quote of Trump’s that proves he hasn’t changed one bit and obviously never will,
“Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back 10 times as hard. I really believe that,” ~ Donald J. Trump
The Dotard and Sarah have made several comments about Jemele, yet ESPN wants to suspend Jemele? It is disgusting how ESPN is throwing Jemele under the bus simply to appease The Dotard and Jerry Jones, who caved to The Dotard’s pressure after the Dotard called him 4 times in one day about the players kneeling..
It’s more disgusting that Jerry Jones betrayed his players, first by making them kneel before the NA and then linking arms during the NA and stand and then by publicly bragging about punishing any player who takes a knee during the NA. What Jerry fails to realize is that without those men, he would have no team.
There are fires in CA and the Dotard is too busy tweeting about Jemele and the NFL to even take notice.
This phrase never grows old: FUCK HIM.
NFL owners are powerful. President Moron better watch out.
Devin Nunes is still obstructing justice. He issued more subpoenas, this time to the firm behind the Trump Dossier. I don’t understand why no one is doing anything to stop Devin Nunes, who recused himself from the Trump Russian investigation due to his late night run to the WH to “find” information to support The Dotard’s claims that Obama wiretapped him. What happened to the 2 ethics investigations into Nunes? Did the Dotard make those investigations go away in exchange for Nunes obstructing justice? Mueller has enough information against Nunes to charge him with obstruction, what’s taking so long?
A day after The Dotard and Lindsey Graham play golf, Devin Nunes issues another subpoena in another attempt to interfere with the Trump Russian investigation.
Both Gooddell and Jerry Jones have betrayed the players. They are threatening to punish players if they do not stand during the NA. This is wrong. These men gave money to The Dotard and yet they expect the players not to protest about injustice? The players need to start protesting Jerry Jones and Gooddell.
It was reported that 99% of The Dotard’s base think he is doing a good job. The Russians are trolling the polls again. The majority of the Dotard’s supporters are bots. If 99% of The Dotard’s base think he is doing a job, then where were these people when The Dotard was promoting Luther S? I wish the press would stop falling for the con. When they see results that contradict facts, then they should alr
In other news, Neil Gorsch drops a case that was brought against the Dotard’s Muslim ban. Neil G needs to be removed from the Supreme Court because he is showing that he too is complicit.
The press is giving John Kelly way too much credit. Kelly is not, nor will he ever be the adult in the WH. Kelly is just as complicit and unstable as everyone else in the WH. Remember when Kelly told the Dotard to use the saber on the press? Kelly loves it when the Dotard goes ont he attack. Notice how The Dotard has gotten worse since Kelly took over for Reince? Kelly also leaks to the press, in particular articles that depict him in the good light and throwing the The Dotard under the bus when he gets negative feedback.
don’t you mean #nichtmeinFührer ?
A labor union in Texas has filed a complaint against Jerry Jones for threatening to punish players who take a knee.
Jerry Jones gave an interview in which he admitted that he threatened to punish the players who take a knee because The Dotard pressured him to do it:
“I’m a friend of the President, we don’t agree on many, many matters,” Jones said. “I’m really in practice, apolitical. But I really can’t afford to be when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys and my No. 1 job. We’re addressing the issue in part because [Trump] been very active in the issue. In part, that stirred it up. And because it is stirred up is one of the reasons I’ve drawn a bright line.”
The Dotard seems to think that he can bully NBC into submission just because Jerry Jones and Gooddell caved to his pressure and betrayed their players:
“With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!”-The Dotard
“It would be really nice if the Fake News Media would report the virtually unprecedented Stock Market growth since the election.Need tax cuts”-The Dotard
What stock market growth? Those numbers can’t be trusted because the WH is full of millionaires and billionaires who haven’t divested from their companies.
“The Fake News is at it again, this time trying to hurt one of the finest people I know, General John Kelly, by saying he will soon be……..fired. This story is totally made up by the dishonest media.The Chief is doing a FANTASTIC job for me and, more importantly, for the USA!”-The Dotard
The problem is that this story was leaked by John Kelly. John Kelly is just like the Dotard, he wants to be praised and when he isn’t getting it, it leaks stories that depict himself in the positive light or as a victim.
“It is about time that Roger Goodell of the NFL is finally demanding that all players STAND for our great National Anthem-RESPECT OUR COUNTRY”-The Dotard
This is illegal. The Dotard pressured Goodell and Jerry Jones into doing what he wanted. He called Jerry Jones 4 times in one day. How many times did the Dotard call Goodell. Goodell and Jones gave money to the Dotard which they earned from the sweat of the players, yet they want to tell grown men that they have no right to protest? The players weren’t disrespecting the flag or NA, which is why Veterans posted photos of themselves taking the knee. It’s disgusting that Goodell and Jerry Jones betrayed the players like this, they need to be boycotted. The best solution would have been not to make the players come the field while the NA is playing, just like they did the past.
When given a chance to be the adults in the WH, Mattis and Tillerson decided to be complicit.
When it was reported that the Dotard asked to increase the nuclear arsenal by 10 fold, the Dotard went to twitter to call it fake news and then he had his puppets Mattis and Tillerson do the same, calling the story false and covering for The Dotard. Last week we were told that Mattis and Tillerson stay in the WH because things would be worse if they weren’t there, but once again Mattis and Tillerson proved that this isn’t true. Mattis and Tillerson stay because they are complicit and also profiting from their jobs in the WH. Mattis and Tillerson had one job to do today and they failed. They need to stop protecting the Dotard and their bank accounts, and start protecting the citizens of the US because the Dotard is leading us into a war. The Dotard isn’t afraid to start a war because he isn’t going to have to deal with the consequences. He and his family have bunkers to hide in, whereas we don’t.