Trump In 2013: Obama Shouldn't Tell Football Team What To Do

There is an old tweet for every occasion when it comes to President Donald Trump. Trump's use of Twitter goes way back to before he became president. And in 2013, when Barack Obama was president, he tweeted that the president should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name and that our country has "far bigger problems" Obama should focus on instead of "nonsense."

In the tweet, Trump was referring to comments Obama made in an interview with The Associated Press.

“If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team — even if it had a storied history — that was offending a sizable group of people, I’d think about changing it,” the former president said.

Obama was referring to how the name is offensive to native Americans. The Redskins are still called the Redskins.

What Trump is doing now is instructing the NFL to change its rules and fire players who kneel during the national anthem, telling not just a single sports team but the entire league that it should change its rules. He is engaging in the kind of "nonsense" (his own words) that he told Obama to stay away from.

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