Kneeling during our Anthem was a lousy and disrespectful way to protest some perceived notion that cops are out of control and don't care about how blacks get treated.
The Eagles never knelt. Trump needed to distract from murdering thousands of Puerto Ricans, ACA repeal failure, and Russian collusion, so he manipulated the dumbest in the country into outrage at 1 player kneeling. Without Trump’s propaganda, the issue would have died out. Instead, Trump badly damaged an American industry, coerced them into caving in to his demands, and then continued his attack on them.