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Trump’s war on the NFL started with Fox News, not racism

By Eddie Scarry
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Trump’s war on the NFL started with Fox News, not racism

A tip for David Brooks and every journalist obsessed with President Trump’s psyche: To watch Fox News is to understand Trump.

On Trump’s days-long campaign against NFL players protesting during the national anthem — “Tremendous backlash against the NFL and its players for disrespect of our Country” — Time magazine played Freud. Reporters Alex Altman and Sean Gregory wrote Thursday:

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