I wish the Patriots had won.
Tom Brady would have been honored to visit his friend Donald in the White House. Bob Kraft, too.
The same Bob Kraft who sent the team plane down to Florida to fly Adolph Hogg and his friends to the AstroTurf anti-gun rally “for our lives” in Washington DC.
https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/robert-kraft-flying-high-school-protesters-patriots-jet
And Kraft appears to be a gun grabber:
https://nesn.com/2018/03/heres-the-letter-robert-kraft-wrote-to-parkland-students-on-patriots-plane/
Tom Brady would have been honored to visit his friend Donald in the White House. Bob Kraft, too.
A few points of order.
Last year Brady and about two dozen other Patriots didn't attend the 2017 White House visit.The BS excuse given was "some veteran players did not see the need to go twice in three years." Uh huh.
In this light, one could ask why didn't Trump revoke the invitation to the Pats last year? Perhaps it's because the Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie made some pretty stupid comments. Thus, I think there is more to this revocation than meets the eye.
Indeed, Eagles Coach Peterson, on national TV after the SB 52 win, personally thanked his "Lord and Savior Jesus Christ". The Eagles, by many accounts, were pretty "normal" vs other teams as far as kneeling etc. Yes, three Eagles were not appropriate during the National Anthem, but certainly there wasn't a cornucopia of arm-locking and kneeling on the Eagles sideline.
Let's also not forget that Robert Kraft flew Parkland shooting survivors to D.C. on the Patriots' plane.Not exactly MAGA type stuff.
As an Eagles fan, I'm unhappy that the THREE Eagles who said publicly they wouldn't go, have spoiled everything for everyone. (It's worth noting that there is a report (thanks Eddie01) that fewer than ten Eagles were set to attend - if that's true, then that's reprehensible and I'm ashamed of the Eagles). I understand that Trump could have invited everyone who wasn't a loser, but the bottom line is Trump was making an example out of the Eagles. I, too, doubt any Eagle will show up as that would create problems in the locker room.
The bottom line is, we voted for a President who was willing to throw punches. I continue to support my President, because the same guy who dis-invited my team to the WH, is the same guy who gave us tax cuts, an improved economy, etc. I'll take MAGA over panem et circenses any day of the week.
Tom Brady would not have, and the majority of the Patriots kneeled after Trump’s comments to protest. Tom Brady did not show up last time and claimed it was family reasons, but notice if that were true that Trump would have mentioned him in the ceremony at the White House. He would have talked about his friend Tom Brady the MVP and how he was so sorry Tom couldn’t make it. He was dead silent. His wife then posted about an anti-Trump protest that same day. Rush Limbaugh, who knows Kraft, said that he couldn’t say everything but that Tom Brady’s wife didn’t want him to go and didn’t want him to be associated with Trump by going. Notice Trump has never mentioned Tom Brady again. In one of those anonymously sourced articles from the press, there was a snippet where it said that Trump was disappointed Brady no longer kept in touch.