National Football League ( NFL ) commissioner Roger Goodell announced on May 23 that the league will fine teams whose players protest during the pre-game national anthem. The announcement from the league and team majority-owners came after a tumultuous season in which NFL executives and President Donald Trump ignored the protests’ anti-racist goals and recast them as “ unpatriotic .” A new article from the Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ) now shows that Trump’s attack on the protests went beyond the podium and entered the team owners’ policymaking process.
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