I'm not sure if you have been following this situation, or not.
But Dirty Don Trump started a whole big to do, because several of the black
football players decided to respectfully kneel, instead of stand up,
during playing of the USA national anthem.
They did so, because they (and others) believe that minorities are being targeted
by the police resulting in a much higher percentage of minority individuals in jail
and also being killed during arrests.
This is NOT Nazi Germany. There is no law stating that one has to stand.
But Trump and thus his mindless followers began boycotting (American) football games
putting some economic pressure on the NFL to make a change.
So, the NFL (National Football League) came out with a ruling, that players either have to
stand for the anthem, or remain in the locker room this year.
That may not make a difference, because so far, at least 2 teams agreed to pay player fines,
if they choose to kneel.
If interfering in sports (Dirty Don also withdrew an basketball champion meeting offer)
isn't bad enough Dirty Don withdrew an invitation to the Whitehouse for the Philadelphia Eagles,
the team that won the Superbowl in the beginning of this year.
Every team that has won the Superbowl has been invited and welcomed to the Whitehouse by past presidents.
But this year, Dirty Don Trump withdraws the invitation. The reason he withdraws the invitation,
is because he believes that there was Eagle players who took knee during the National Anthem.
He believes this, not from watching the games, as no Philadelphia Eagle player took a knee
during the entire football season during the National Anthem.
Instead, he saw pictures of players kneeling to pray long before the anthem was played.
What a moron !
So anyway, here is comedian Andy Borowitz's satiric column today in The New Yorker in response to this;
In response to: Satire from The Borowitz Report
Philadelphia Eagles Accept Mueller’s Offer to Celebrate With Him
By Andy Borowitz
6:05 P.M.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Philadelphia Eagles have accepted Robert Mueller’s invitation
to come to his office and celebrate their Super Bowl victory with him, Mueller has confirmed.
The special counsel said that he was “absolutely tickled” that the Eagles had accepted his invitation.
“I’m a huge fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, and it turns out the feeling is mutual,” he said.
According to one member of the team, the Eagles accepted Mueller’s invitation only after being assured
that their visit would not in any way distract the special counsel from “getting his job done.”
“What Bob Mueller is doing is so much more important than any Super Bowl,” the Eagle player said.
“If he wins, the whole world wins.”
For his part, Mueller praised the Eagles for responding to his invitation so quickly, adding,
“I invited Trump to see me months ago, and I still haven’t heard back.”
Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of “The 50 Funniest American Writers,”
and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.
He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.