Who will win the political Super Bowl?
The fight is on between Trump and the US’s other compulsive attention-seeker, American football
Donald Trump, reconnecting with the conservative groundswell that landed him the US presidency with a minority of the popular vote, was down in Alabama addressing a political rally. As the region continued to recover after deadly freak storms and as nuclear war with North Korea became a greater likelihood, it made perfect sense for Trump to turn his attention to an even more important matter — the behaviour of players in the National Football League (NFL). Ever since San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took to one knee during the singing of the national anthem more than a year ago to protest against the police’s treatment of black Americans, there have been growing displays of protest by NFL players. Many team members now routinely "take the knee" during the singing of the national anthem, in protest. In Trump’s view, a protesting player is a "son of a bitch" who should become victim to his own television tag-line, "You’re fired!", Reuters reported. And so battle has co...
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