In recent years, two things have defined the National Football League: wokeness and greed.
Although professional football remains wildly popular in spite of it all, President Donald Trump has put the league on notice.
In an interview posted Sunday to YouTube, Trump told veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson, host of the weekly Sunday news program “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” that he hated the NFL’s move to subscription-based broadcast platforms because, as the president put it, many fans “don’t make enough money to go and pay this.”
That statement, of course, carries more weight than the average disgruntled fan’s complaint. After all, in April, Trump’s Justice Department reportedly opened anantitrust investigationinto the NFL over its various broadcast deals.
Attkisson cited that investigation and asked the president for his opinion about it.
“Your Justice Department is investigating the NFL for moving a lot of viewers from free broadcast television to more expensive pay programming like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Peacock, and YouTube, where the NFL makes more money,” she said. “Do you think this is price-gouging on America’s favorite sport? Should the government do anything about it?”
Trump responded by calling the situation “tough.”
“You’ve got people that love football,” he said. “They’re great people. They don’t make enough money to go and pay this.”
In typical Trumpian fashion, the president then veered slightly off topic into his hatred of the NFL’s newkickoff rule.
Attkisson, however, was not familiar with the rule, so Trump returned to the matter at hand.
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