Now why would Trump spend so much time castigating football players for acts of peaceful protest? Oh, that's right, Trump is a racist piece of shit. But he's also somebody who craves adulation and approval, no matter what the cost. So, you know, screaming about African-American athletes in front of an all-white crowd is bound to get him a few cheers, and never mind the wedge it drives deeper into the social fabric. Also, by spending all his time talking only about the act of protest itself and not what the act is striving to call our attention to, he hopes to distract from the real issue (i.e., systemic violence against black and brown people), and therefore he won't have to do anything about it. And if we know one thing about Trump, it's that he didn't become president because he wants to fix anything.
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