Trump urged NFL owners to fire the players and encouraged fans to walk out of games in their own protest. That’s a total disrespect of everything that we stand for,” Trump told a rally Friday in Alabama, where he was campaigning for Republican Sen. Luther Strange. Trump followed that up Saturday morning by taking to Twitter to apparently withdraw his invitation to the National Basketball Assn. champion Golden State Warriors to visit the White House, singling out the team’s star, Stephen Curry, for “hesitating” about accepting the offer. DeMaurice Smith, executive director of that NFL Players Assn.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 23, 2017 19:06 UTC