Ed Rendell, a die-hard Eagles fan and former Pennsylvania governor, called Trump’s decision to disinvite the Eagles from the White House “bordering on idiotic.”
Rendell emphasized that Trump has repeatedly mischaracterized what the players were protesting: how blacks are treated in the criminal-justice system.
“The president should have expected this when he called some of the players ‘sons of bitches’ and saying they were dishonoring the military,” Rendell said in a telephone interview. “This has nothing to do with the military.”
Rendell also criticized Trump for apparently trying to punish Americans for exercising their constitutional right to free speech.