NFL player Doug Baldwin says Trump is ‘an idiot, plain and simple’

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Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin called President Trump an “idiot” for saying NFL players who don’t stand for the national anthem “maybe … shouldn’t be in the country.”

“He’s an idiot, plain and simple,” Baldwin said Thursday at a news conference. “I mean, listen, I respect the man because he’s a human being, first and foremost. But he’s being more divisive, which is not surprising. It is what it is.”

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