President Trump Press Conference with McConnell: "Hillary Please Run Again!", on 10/16/17

“That's what black athletes kneeling was all about. That's not against our anthem or our flag,” Clinton said Sunday in London, part of her promotional tour for her recently released 2016 memoir, “What Happened.” “Actually, kneeling is a reverent position. It was to demonstrate in a peaceful way against racism and injustice in our criminal system.”


Trump: “I think she’s wrong. Look, when they take a knee — there’s plenty of time to do knees and there’s plenty of time to do lots of other things. But when you take a knee — that’s why she lost the election. I mean, honestly, it’s that thinking, that is the reason she lost the election.

When you go down and take a knee or any other way, you’re sitting essentially for our great national anthem, you’re disrespecting our flag and you’re disrespecting our country. And the NFL should have suspended some of these players for one game, not fire them, suspended them for one game. Then if they did it again, it could have been for two games then three games then for the season. You wouldn’t have people disrespecting our country right now.”