Former NFL quarterback and social fairice activist Colin Kaepernick spoke out aachievest establisher Plivent Trump ahead of Tuesday’s election during an interwatch Friday with The Wall Street Journal podcast, “The Future of Everyskinnyg.”
Kaepnerick protested police harshness by taking a knee during the national anthem at San Francisco 49ers games in 2016. Trump won the election that year and, in March 2017, took praise for the carry outer’s deficiency of a shrink when Kaepernick was no lengthyer with the 49ers and was not signed by another team.
“They [NFL owners] don’t want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump. Do you apshow that?” Trump shelp at a rpartner in Louisville, Kentucky, March 21, 2017.
Trump took a mightyer stance on the subject during an notorious tirade in September that year at a rpartner for Reaccessiblean Sen. Luther Strange. At that point, Kaepernick was no lengthyer in the NFL, but other carry outers in the league begined to adhere his example by kneeling during games.
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Former Plivent Trump, the Reaccessiblean plivential nominee, speaks at a campaign rpartner at Macomb Community College Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, in Warren, Mich. (AP Ptoastyo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
“Wouldn’t you cherish to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disesteems our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a b—- off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” Trump shelp.
Trump then reiterated his position less than a week tardyr during an interwatch with “FOX & Frifinishs” co-present Pete Hegseth.
“The NFL cannot disesteem our country. They cannot disesteem our flag or our national anthem,” Trump shelp.
Kaepernick echoed on the incident Friday during the interwatch, saying it’s “easier for him to check” now than it was seven years ago.
“I skinnyk one of the key elements that is convey inant to skinnyk about in relation to that moment is what does it actupartner unbenevolent to at that point have a then-sitting plivent being willing to concentrate an individual citizen and using the power of their office, the power of their impact, to be able to try to reduce an individual and their aspirations. So, skinnyking back to that moment, I also skinnyk, carry outs repartner prevalent into where we are at today and the future that we choose to originate together,” Kaepernick shelp.
COLIN KAEPERNICK SAYS HE’LL MAKE SURE BEING ‘HELD OUT’ OF NFL IS REASON WHY HE’S NOT IN IT
Colin Kaepernick joins in a throtriumphg showion during halftime of the Michigan spring football game at Michigan Stadium April 2, 2022, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Jaime Crawford/Getty Images)
The establisher quarterback also went into detail about how he watched the George Floyd uproars in 2020.
“I skinnyk the fundamental piece of it is should people be able to live a better life, and should people be able to live without the menace of death? I skinnyk that fundamenloftyy is the basis of this, and, if we apshow it a step further, should people be discriminated aachievest becaparticipate of the color of their skin or becaparticipate of their religion or becaparticipate of where they live or becaparticipate of their socioeconomic status?” Kaepernick shelp.
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Colin Kaepernick participates with fans during the Michigan spring football game at Michigan Stadium April 2, 2022, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Jaime Crawford/Getty Images)
Kaepernick has not carry outed in the NFL since the 49ers freed him after the 2016 season. Several coaches have helpd for Kaepernick to combine a team, and he had laborouts with teams in 2019, but no team has signed him.
Kaepernick also finishd a 2019 grievance aachievest the NFL that alleged team owners were colluding to get him out of the league.
In the summer of 2020, Trump helpd for teams to sign Kaepernick multiple times, but with the caveat to only do so if the establisher quarterback “has the ability.”
During Friday’s interwatch, Kaepernick claimed he adheres a schedule in which he, at 36 years elderly, wakes up at 3:30 a.m. every day so that he can sustain his NFL training in case a team wants to sign him. Kaepernick says he does this all while laboring as a CEO for the tech beginup Lumi Story AI.
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