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Donald Trump and the "NFL-gate": explained

Why is the American president targeting popular sports figures?

Last week, Donald Trump spectacularly lashed out at some of the most popular icons of contemporary American culture: Football players, more particularly the "kneelers" (those who choose to kneel instead of singing the national anthem before a game, in protest against the rise of racist behaviours and hate crimes in the US -- Read more here).

A few days before this speech, he had already taken to Twitter to express his hostility at the Golden State Warriors basketball team and their star player Stephen Curry, when he openly "withdrew" the invitation to the White House traditionally extended to the National championship winner :

This baffling move on the part of the American president may be explained by his long and chaotic history of failed business ventures in the sports industry. For instance, the fiasco of the football league he co-founded to rival the NFL in the 1980s, or his failure buy the Buffalo Bills

franchise in 2014, which further embittered him against the game :

A number of quality analyses have been written on the subject: take the time to read at least one this weekend to acquire argumentative material for potential Essay subjects:

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