CNN's Jake Tapper takes on Donald Trump for condemning NFL players instead of neo-Nazis

Instead of calling for unity at the year anniversary of the deadly white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year, CNN’s Jake Tapper noted that Donald Trump is instead sowing division by condemning NFL players for kneeling to protest racism.

In a pair of early-morning tweets on Friday, Trump once again targeted NFL players for kneeling during the National Anthem.

"The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem," the president wrote. "Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their “outrage” at something that most of them are unable to define."

Trump, Tapper noted, is "once again seeing a divided nation and doing the opposite of trying to bring us together" by "giving a presidential megaphone to one side in a controversial cultural issue that sometimes stokes racial tensions."

"Come Sunday, white nationalists and bigots are expected to take to the street in front of the White House marking a year since the hate-filled rally in Charlottesville where Heather Heyer was killed," the CNN host said.

"Rather than condemn the bigots or beliefs today, the president took aim at a protest, a small group of NFL players calling attention to racial injustice and inequality last night."

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