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Only a Fundamentalist member of the Church of Partisan Politics believes this is about supporting a politician. It just the public ritual to honor athletic champions, no different than being the turkey publicly sent to a zoo in late November rather than being eaten by some human. For the player it is no different than a loser being forced by the league to submit himself to the media for interviews, unless your religion forbids it of course.
Reading the article in the link, it says they have not received an invitation from the White House yet. All we know right now is that Warriors forward David West will not be there.
If no invite has been sent, why the hell are they bellyaching about being proud of something that has not even happened yet. Of course the real winner is Trump, Im sure he had no intention of inviting them, now, he cant be accused of racism for not inviting them. Now the players can hold their liberal heads high believing in their liberal fantasy of standin up to dem eebil repulicans
Good for them! Why should the players and coaches follow tradition when Trump doesn't even follow tradition? Still waiting on those taxes that many former presidents have made public. Besides, none of the players and coaches agree with his policies anyway. And for all the dopes who are spinning this into a racial thing, it's not just black athletes that skip white house visits.
We just live in a different era in history now, lots of things are just not the norm anymore. And unfortunately, things are not getting any better, just look back at the political season of 2016. So many people today don't care anything about tradition anymore, it's all about them. Some traditions will eventually fade away forever, I would hate to see that, but things are just different these days.
I honestly couldn't care less....good for the environment that they aren't flying to the Swamp....thanks to Donald Trump for saving the planet from Global Warming!
I appreciate what you said, but it ain't about class. I took an oath when I joined the military and I was taught that even when my term expires, my oath does not.
I don't like Trump, but he's the commander-in-chief. Bottom line.
You took an oath as did I to defend the Constitution not the President. Your allegiance is to the nation and not the president.
You or someone said it was a national tradition for the winning team to meet with the President if asked. It's also a tradition for the President to attend the yearly correspondence dinner. Trump chose to sit it out due to his fragile ego. The last President to sit it out was Ronald Reagan as he was recovering from a gunshot wound.
It should be up to the team as to whether they want to accept or deny a president's request to attend and looking at Steve Kerr's earlier comments about Donald Trump, I don't think he will be attending nor will Stephen Curry who called Trump "an asset" without the "et".
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