“I’ve never seen anything like it, and I think he hurt himself badly,” Trump told his son Donald Trump Jr. on a special on his YouTube channel (3:39 mark). “I was going to put out that he’ll regret that in the future years because you stand for the flag. You have to stand for the flag and the anthem, our national anthem. You have to stand. And I think the NFL’s gonna have a lot of problems if they don’t.”
Brees did an interview with Yahoo Finance on June 3, saying he disagrees with anyone who “disrespects” the flag by kneeling during the national anthem. The comment drew nationwide derision, including from some Saints teammates, with the nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis Police custody on May 25.
Brees issued several public apologies in the days following the controversy, saying he was “insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country.” He also posted the following caption alongside a photo with the words “To President Trump” after the president attempted to come to his defense on the issue: read more….
