"When I see people kneeling during the playing and disrespecting our flag and national anthem, what I do personally is turn off the game," Trump said Wednesday morning in a phone interview with"FOX & Friends."
"I think it's disgraceful. We work with [the NBA], we worked with them very hard trying to get open. I was pushing for them to get open. Then I see everybody kneeling during the anthem. That's not acceptable to me.""When I see them kneeling during the game, I just turn off the game. I have no interest in the game. Let me tell you this, plenty of other people out there, too.
During the call, Trump also claimed NBA ratings are way down -- when according to TV sports media outlets, the rating are up 14% from the average before the season was suspended. Trump added,"We have to stand up for our flag, stand up for our country. A lot of people agree with me. If I'm wrong, I'm going to lose an election. That's okay with me. I will always stand for our flag."and other NFL stars for taking a knee back in 2017 ... calling for the NFL fire any"son of a bitch" who doesn't stand for the Star-Spangled Banner.
Who watches NBA anyways there all spoiled brats🖕 who cares should defund the NBA and the money alone would stop poverty😳 in the USA and house every homeless person🔥🇺🇸You tell me NBA❓❓❓joerogan RealJamesWoods realDonaldTrump
as an American you can do whatever you want right? they have the right to kneel. you have the right to not watch . simple. just like how I don't watch tRump or fox news because I think THEY are disgraceful 🤷🏾♀️
Don’t play the anthem at games
GOOD!! THEIR INTEREST IS WINNING THE GAME, NOT HIM!!
Good.. bunch of spoiled brats!!
Stop playing the national anthem..problem solved
We all are mr President...I say fire them all and give people who would love the chance to play and it will not cost the team owners as much money boom problem solved
Same 👌
👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 they probably won’t miss you 🙄
I don’t think that the NBA will feel the loss of one fool not watching the games. There are plenty of folks watching so what? In Don’s own words ‘It is what it is!’🤡🤡
Wish the world could turn you off! BunkerBaby RacistInChief
Its pretty funny people get so upset over a piece of cloth but don't care when the people running the country uses its soldiers as pawns in pointless oil wars. 🤷♂️
And no one f cares
He should start watching Canadian and British because it’s not ending as long as he is President
yep... fuck the NBA and all the sports that kneel ..
Hey TMZ he is not the only one turning off the game. Even big shots in your area of Hollyweirdos are doing it too.
Why is trump watching sports People are dying!!! Note to Trump... we are in a pandemic that is taking innocent lives!!!!
What a dork
I think they're disrespecting all those who lost their lives and defended our country for their freedom 😪
Like his press conferences...”just turn it off”
VoteKillerOUT
Maybe now they’ll start paying child support to their 11 kids?
When you have mental midgets like Lebron talking I don’t even turn the NBA on to begin with.
Wait? I hear all these players will be donating their millions$$$$ to black lives matter to improve the lives of young fatherless black men! Mostly their kids?
LeBron or Michael Jordan could easily help African-American communities just demanded their shoes be made in our cities. But there’s so quiet
SAVETHECHILDERN
So did most of America!!!
Cancel the NFL,NBA,NHL,MLB, and Nascar. Bunch of Anti American rich crybabies.
And this is his focus!
NBA ratings sky rocketing. People appreciate the 1st amendment! Freedom of Speech, Oh Dementia Donny!
Same
Like he’s watching the game anyway
Basketball started again, gee. With so much going on in the world and life didn't realize. What other sports restarted. Is it any good? I'm going to skip it this year.
Sad watching DJT, and many in politics, trying to continually divide us. He knows what triggers us, especially people of color. I have to remind & check my damn self. He did it in 2016 & now he’s more desperate to b re-elected & he’s willing to leave carnage to get what he wants
He doesn’t watch sports. Period.
NBA blacks are COWARDS. Its an America game. How many black men died in wars so BLM could be free? Disgraceful is a nice word.
Don't need his bad juju anyway! I'll be glad when we turn his ass off in November! TrumpOut2020
Question:: if this isn’t to disrespect the flag why not just do a moment of silence before or after anthem?
America Has No President!!!!!
Your wife got the wrong arm over her chest and you doing the Dugie ... 🤷🏾♂️
He won’t be missed the hypocrite POTUS!
Lol, did we actually think that Trump love basketball? He seems like someone who would watch just to see if he could buy a team, and not for the love of the game itself, but so he can acquire it and say he owns a team.
He rather watch kkk movies or something
Same here
Good, they’re not here to entertain YOU
All Lives Matter!!
In the process of turning off the game I wished he disappeared!
It’s the same thing I do when his orange racist face pops up on my tv, turn it off!
Like King Combover actually watches the NBA
Says the man who is so cavalier about 155,000+ deaths. “It is what it is” smh justvote VoteHimOut
Fun fact: NBA ratings are through the roof. Trumps approval rating is in the toilet.
I do the same when you are on TV realDonaldTrump
If only he got that upset over the 155,000 dead Americans
lmao... Who had the game on, the wife?
Good..they dont give a damn if u watch or not
You have to turn on the game first.
I don’t care about Sports this season! Players egos outshine Playing Ball!!!
As he should! You play on an American team. You are paid by this country due to your American fans, and paid way more than you should be! Stand up or find a new career in the country of your choosing. ✌🏻
Trump2020
He hasn’t watched a min of NBA basketball a day in his life anyway.
He probably never watched a game
Well his pht s$ should Be running the country and not watching tv so
What a joke he is!
Based on ratings a lot of people are turning the NBA off. NASCAR has better ratings than the NBA and that is pathetic.
Like he watches anyway. When I see Trump, the disgrace, I just turn off the TV.
Good, they need to stick to dribbling ball instead of getting into politics cuz that's what BLM turn into the evil dems favorite token of dumb mfs who believe in a movement that doesn't have their best interests. In their bio it says to 'dismantle cisgender men '
Well...I turn the tv off every time he speaks.
You know what’s funny? I do the same thing when he starts playing his games... I shut that shut right off too.
Didn’t he and his supporters say they were going to stop watching the NBA and NFL?
Anything involving minorities standing up for themselves is disgraceful to this clown. Only if they were “very fine people”
Disgraceful is 156k Americans dead in 4 months on your hands but you’re watching TV
Trump doesn’t watch basketball but his body type and skin color looks like a basketball morbidlyobeseorangecelebrity
Because 70 year old assholes are the target market for the NBA.
realDonaldTrump Funny...I just turn off the TV whenever your obnoxious mouth comes on.
He doesn't watch basketball
I'm on board with this. This has nothing to do with disrespecting the flag. This is about standing up for equality and making your voices heard. Plain and simple.
The NBA has been trash for years now .
he's dumb lol we know this already
NBA Kneeling is fucking
Yup as did I
That MOFO don't even watch basketball
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