Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr doesn’t care if President Donald Trump stops watching sports. Trump tweeted Tuesday criticizing the San Francisco Giants players for kneeling during the national anthem. In the tweet, Trump said he wouldn’t watch sports if the players knelt down.
Kerr, 54, would not be too devastated if Trump, 74, followed through on that threat.
Trump didn’t specifically mention the Giants by name, but his tweet came hours after numerous Giants players, and manager Gabe Kapler, knelt during the national anthem during an exhibition game against the Oakland Athletics.
Kerr responded with a gif of Willy Wonka saying, “Stop it. Don’t do it. Come back.” Anyone who has seen “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” knows that Gene Wilder’s delivery of that line was dripping with sarcasm.
Kneeling athletes is a popular topic for Trump. He was a vocal critic of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick when Kaepernick protested racial injustice and police brutality by kneeling down during the 2016 NFL season. Trump has continued to discuss the issue every time an athlete kneels, or every time the issue returns to the news cycle.
If Trump is really going to boycott all the sports that have protests … well, he will probably have to stop watching sports all together. Almost every professional league plans to allow some form of protest in 2020.
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