President Donald Trump had a question for NFL commi sioner Roger Goodell on Sunday night.

Trump tweeted a query about whether Goodell would allow players to kneel before the national anthem this season after years of league resistance and public pre sure by Trump to keep playersstanding.

Could it be even remotely po sible that in Roger Goodells rather interesting statement of peace and reconciliation, he was intimating that it would Archie Bradley Jersey now be O.K. for the players to KNEEL Ketel Marte Jersey , or not to stand, for the National Anthem, thereby disrespecting our Country our Flag?

Goodell saying the league now admits "we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest." The NFL has been under scrutiny for how it has handled player protests since 2016, when Colin Kaepernick first took a knee during the anthem to protest police brutality Yasmany Tomas Jersey and racial inequality.

Kaepernick has not played in the league since the end of the 2016 season. Team owners briefly made kneeling a fineable offense in 2018.

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The Washington Post reported Saturday that Goodell before cutting the video, which he made after a group of prominent blackplayers calling for the league to make a stronger statement than the one it i sued May 30 in response to nationwide protests and rioting following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Trump is returning to an i sue that gained him voter support during his succe sful election bid in 2016 and perhaps again in his reelection bid this year. He tweeted Friday that Saints quarterback Drew Brees saying that with "anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country."

Brees backtracked after receivingheavy criticism from Blank Jersey teammates and eventually apologized multiple times for the comment. He also posted saying he now realizes that the protests have "never been" about the flag.

Redskins Brad Boxberger Jersey running back Adrian Peterson, meanwhile,on Friday that he would kneel for the anthem this season and indicated other players would, as well.

Taking a knee returned to the spotlight after Floyd's deathat the knee of a former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin. Floyd died after Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes. Threeother officers on the scene helped to keep Floyd down or stood idle. The incident was caught on Wilmer Flores Jersey camera.

Chauvin was arrested andcharged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The three other officers were also arrested; they werecharged with aiding and abetting murder.

Violent protests followed Floyd's death, but days into the demonstrations, some law enforcement personnel began taking a knee in solidarity with peaceful protesters.