NBA superstar Lebron James slammed President Trump on Wednesday over his comments decrying the NBA for many of its players kneeling for the American National Anthem.
As The Daily Wire reports:
On Wednesday, LeBron James responded to a reporter asking him about President Donald Trump stating he turns off his television when NBA players kneel for the national anthem. James said, “I really don’t think the basketball community are sad about losing his viewership.”
“When I see people kneeling during the playing and disrespecting our flag and national anthem, what I do personally is turn off the game,” Trump said on Wednesday’s edition of Fox & Friends. “I think it’s disgraceful. We work with [the NBA], we worked with them very hard trying to get open. I was pushing for them to get open. Then I see everybody kneeling during the anthem. That’s not acceptable to me. When I see them kneeling during the game, I just turn off the game. I have no interest in the game. Let me tell you this, plenty of other people out there, too… The ratings for the basketball are way down, as you know. I hear some others are way down, including baseball.”
“We have to stand up for our flag, stand up for our country,” Trump added. “A lot of people agree with me. If I’m wrong, I’m going to lose an election. That’s okay with me. I will always stand for our flag.”
In response, James said, “I really don’t think the basketball community are sad about losing his viewership, him viewing the game. And that’s all I got to say. I don’t want to, I’m not going to get into a … because I already know where this could go, where it could lead to for tomorrow for me. I’m not going to get into it.”
LeBron James on Donald Trump saying he won’t watch any more NBA games because people have kneeled to protest systemic racism during the national anthem: “I really don’t think the basketball community are sad about losing his viewership.” pic.twitter.com/l9sP7LiFsi
— Mark Medina (@MarkG_Medina) August 6, 2020
The only problem for Lebron and the NBA: almost half of American voters cast their ballot for President Trump in 2016, and they likely won’t be very happy with Lebron’s disrespectful comments about him.
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BOYCOTT THE NBA– NO FANS ALL ALL- EVEN WHEN THE COVID 19 IS DEEMED CONTROLLABLE AND TEAMS PLAY REGULAR SCHEDULES
I agree with Trump. Lifelong basketball fan but why would I support this disrespect. They might have the right to do it, but I have the right not to waste time watching it. Trump has done more for minorities than James-
p.s. let me know when James and the NBA speaks out against China
If James and his cronies speak out against China I have a bridge in Brooklyn on the cheap…
they wont even whisper against their principal revenue stream
Knucklehead – “Are you sad about the millions of other people” that will be turning off the NBA games FOREVER !? The NBA, NFL and MLB are all going down the toilet. No body, that loves the USA, is interested in your political statements. RIP NBA
Don’t forget nascar!
bubba and his fake lynching knot.. and Jessie smallnuts and his fake assault… trhey are aLL RACIST LIARS WHO HAVE PROFITED IMMENSELY FROM THE American economy
And throw in the NHL too. That guy that was Phillipino-Canadian gave some speech, kneeled for our national anthem, then stood for their anthem.
he’s garbage too.
I don’t give a damn about Lebron the overpaid clown or their BLM movement, nothing but a black power uprising that is hurting the blacks. Guess he is like the other idiot West and thinks maybe he could run for president. Never happen as we had one of your type in office and all he did was screw up the Country. Go dribble your ball and STFU because you are nothing but a lowly educated individual.
boycott NBA
Lebron, you have voiced disapproval of Trump and support for Chinese communism, anything else you want to say before you insert your entire foot into your mouth?
That is why people say shut up and dribble because when you talk you are hurting yourself and when you dribble you help yourself. You may not care about having viewers for your sport in the future but the other players in the league and the owners do care or will care when they see the final effects of Covid-19 on their discretionary spending! Lebron, that means the money they can spend on unnecessary entertainment like going to see you play, in case you were not aware. Just like every other millennial he doesn’t care about the others as long as he gets his, but he pretends to be woke about everything else. Your wealth, your world and your power come from the platform you have and now you wish to shrink your own platform, brilliant!
His foot is not only in his mouth, he has managed to swallow it.
Boycot, Boycot, then see how vocal are all those clowns when money stop pouring.
TRUMP MAGA
Lebron James, a giant hypocrite amongst many in the NBA. He’s all for BLM, but ask him to condemn human rights abuses in China or support Hong Kong freedom fighters and he disappears! He sells too many Lebron James in China to opine, for him is all about the money!!
CORRUPT BOUGHT N SOLD TRAITOR LIKE BIDEN N HUNTER THE BAG MAN
Honestly, who cares what he thinks. One of the biggest hypocrites in the NBA in my opinion.
Play basketball Lebron nobody cares what you think about politically.
FORGET BASKETBALL. DITCH THE NBA. BOYCOTT
Lebron James is just an overpaid, over rated, patsy! Who gives a Rats Patootie what that low life, has to say about the President! To Hades with all sports that disrespect the Flag or our National Anthem!
Boycott them all!
WELL, HE WILL LOSE A LOT OF VIEWERS. MANY PEOPLE ARE TRUE AMERICANS AND THEY ARE REVERANT TO THE FLAG & OUR NATIONAL SONG. Other countries feel the same way about their songs & flags and Americans are no different. BE AN AMERICAN OR LEAVE & FIND A BETTER COUNTRY (if U can)
I’m sure this overly-confident jockey strap would just LOVE to think his comments about Trump will influence basketball fans, but he’s only digging his grave deeper with all the patriotic Americans who still love their country a hellluva lot more. Pretty soon, people will see he’s not the all-American athlete he portrays on the court, but just another BLM goon.
BLM MOUTHPIECE, LIAR, AND RACIST GOON!
Lebron.. You have been my guy for last 10 years. I’m a Trump voter that has rooted for you wherever you were.
NOW.. SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE ..
Play the game . DROP THE ACTIVISM.
BOYCOTT NBA!
I will never watch ANY un-American crap coming from the NBA. As for traitor Lebron James, he can take his sneakers and shove them where the sun don’t shine!!!!
SNEAKERS MADE BY INTERNED UIGAR MUSLIMS IN CHINA WHO PAYS OFF LEBRON TO SPOUT TE COMMIE PARTY LINE
GIVE SOME THOUGHT ABOUT HAVING GROWN UP IN AFRICA, INSTEAD OF THE USA, CHUMP. MIGHT HELP TO HAVE GONE TO COLLEGE RATHER THAN LIVING IN A NATION THAT MADE YOU A MILLIONARE RIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL SOLELY SOLELY BECAUSE GOD GAVE YOU SPECIAL SIZE AND TAXPAYERS TOOK CARE OF YOU TO LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO PLAY BALL. GO AWAY, I ALREADY IGNORE THE NBA–JUST BIG GUYS BOUNCING INTO EACH OTHERS TO REST EVER 15 SECONDS TO REST!!!
Anyone kneels fuqm. I’m done. Pussies wouldn’t last 10 minutes in a fox hole. Pussies
Lebron should have stayed in school and received an education as to manners and respect.
OR SOME HISTORY AND ECONOMICS
No one cares what Lebron James thinks, he is part of the Hollywood community who thinks they can with their stardom tell us who we should or should not like. They are a joke that the fraud media caters to, they are a joke.
SCUM…RACIST SCUM
Is any serious Adult really supposed to care what this athletic child thinks (if, indeed, it does think)?
Us guys are with the President,kneeling and no nba and will try not to buy anything that supports you.Trump 2020 Vietnam Vet Back The Blue
None of us will be watching! This President has done so much to help America while the Democrats are tearing her down. They couldn’t care less about BLM or Antifa destroying cities. Our last concern should be about how LeBron feels about our President! Seriously, who cares???
Lost me years ago,after Karl Malone retired.
Get politics out of spectators s ports right now. May you all wither and die of hunger as your world crumbles for lack of spectators
Boycott all Pro Sports and most College but don’t forget to tell the companies that sponsor them that you will no longer buy their products. The only way to get their attention is to hurt their wallet. I haven’t watched Pro Sports in years so I really have no idea which companies sponsor them. Start posting a list of these sponsors and then go to their websites and tell them that you will stop buying their products until these pampered clowns stand up for the National Anthem and denounce the Communist Chinese Party, the Rioters, antifa, and BLM. I would rather watch Pee Wee sports, they are the only ones who play for the fun of it.
LeBron has not only lost the president as a viewer, but also everyone I know.
Well, James, you may very well end up sad about losing other viewership. These viewers are the ones paying your grossly inflated salary.
So the communist isn’t sad about losing President Trump as a viewer. What about the thousands of now former fans you commies lost? Guess what, stupid, advertisers know this and that means your paycheck is going to be a bit short this week. Don’t you love capitalism you arrogant jerk?
As goes Trump, so go five million others. But, LeBron, you can make up for that by pandering to the Chinese although they can’t attend the games.
So the high school graduate who is only famous for excelling at throwing a ball through a hoop slams the President of the United States over “systemic racism” in a country where he makes somewhere near a $100,000,000 per year. To be perfectly honest almost all the racists I know are blacks who have been manipulated by the descendants of the Ku Klux Klan to think that the world is stacked against them. Since the early 70’s this country has implemented programs that favored blacks and other minorities over whites in order to help them succeed and what do they do but complain, complain, and complain some more. The current behavior displayed in the streets of our great country is likely to create a race war and do nothing to help with racial tensions.
LEBRON IS RACIST BLM IS RACIST THERE IS NO SYSTEMIC RACISM
TRUMP and the rest of us won’t miss lying corrupt on the take from the CCP and their genocidal uigar camps RACIST liar, LeBron. Boycott the NBA. Lebron owes tge Columbus Ohio cop a public and complete apology. up blue lives! down Lebron and his racist bigoted ilk.
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