Seriously, the best way to deal with this is to not care. They can sit or stand or throw their fist in the air, or salute, or whatever. I don't care. There's nothing important about it.

Okay, someone's unhappy about the state of affairs in the country. Okay, fine, I get it. But I'm not going to be mad about it.

And as far as Trump goes, I think he knows they're not going to fire a good football player just because he sits during the anthem. He's just saying this for the benefit of his base. He's just waving to his base, saying "I'm with you." The players are doing something symbolic, and he's doing something symbolic. It's all just meaningless noise.

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