The Gallery of Trump-Inspired Assholes (Part 1)

[L0ki]

It was certainly mentioned here:

America didn't like NFL players protesting police violence. Then Trump started tweeting about it

Hey guys, guess what? The DoD has been paying the NFL to force players stand for the anthem: It turns out that from 2011-2014, the Department of Defense spent $5.4 million in contracts with 14 NFL teams for flag ceremonies. The National Guard got in on the action too, and gave $6.7 million to the NFL for the same kind of thing from 2013 to 2015. …Before 2009, football players standing for the national anthem wasn’t even a thing. The teams stayed in the locker room until after “and the hoooom…

@Faffenreffer

This useful timeline from Axios includes a tidbit about a report by John Mcain and Jeff Flake which states that between 2012 and 2015, the DoD spent $7M on “paid patriotism” displays before sporting events.

Yup, here it is for those interested:

https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/12de6dcb-d8d8-4a58-8795-562297f948c1/tackling-paid-patriotism-oversight-report.pdf