USA. After the politics and the actors, Trump attacks the sportsmen

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After wiping out Washington's political elite and the Hollywood brighter, US President Donald Trump is targeting athletes accused of dishonouring America by taking positions against the new administration.

Stephen Curry hesitates, so the invitation is withdrawn, "the US president said in a message on Twitter to the head of the Golden States Warriors, winner of the final of the Basketball Championship (NBA). Curry said Friday he would boycott a possible invitation to the White House, where the president traditionally receives teams titled in one of the major professional or university championships. "Obviously, we will not rush to make a decision whose significance we must measure," he said on the sports channel ESPN, referring to the invitation, which had not been formalized so far by the White House. "We have the opportunity to make a statement which, hopefully, encourages unity, encourages us to measure what it means to be an American and fight for something," he said. He later confirmed that he did not want to "go".

Fighting for something:

Curry received reinforcements of weight: "Going to the White House was an honor before you were there," tweeted to Mr. Trump's other star of the sport king in the United States, LeBron James, finalist this year with Cleveland. "Steph: considers this cancellation as an honor," said the syndicate of players on his Twitter account. Since its coronation in June, the Oakland team has entered a marked opposition to President Trump. Another of his emblematic players, Kevin Durant, announced in August that he would also boycott the visit. "I do not respect the person who occupies the position at the moment, I do not agree with him, I will make my voice heard by not going there," he explained, considering that his teammates were the same opinion. According to Durant, the mistrust of the players was increased in mid-August by the remarks of the American president, who had sent back white supremacists and anti-fascists back to back for the violence of Charlottesville, where a neo-Nazi sympathizer killed one -manifesting her with her vehicle. "Since he took office since the presidential campaign, our country is so divided and not coincidental." When Barack Obama was president, we had so many hopes for our community, recalled Durant. NBA's big boss Adam Silver and Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who also criticized Trump, said he hoped the players would accept the invitation "which could have very positive repercussions."

Before the NBA, the NFL :

Before the NBA, Donald Trump attacked on Friday at the American Football Championship (NFL), calling "turning" players who "disrespect" the American flag. It was the San Francisco 49ers' former quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, which in August 2016 triggered a national polemic by refusing to stand up during the American anthem aired before each meeting to protest against several murders of blacks by white policemen. Kaepernick, 29, has been without a team since the expiration of his contract in March. "We are proud of our country, we respect our flag," Trump said in a speech Friday in Alabama. On Saturday, NFL player representative, DeMaurice Smith, responded to the president on Twitter, saying that the athletes were also "citizens" enjoying "constitutional rights". Donald Trump received the New England Patriots, winners of the Super Bowl, the NFL Championship final in April. But without the starter of the team, the "quarterback" Tom Brady, absent for "family reasons", or several other Patriots who had reported political differences with the president.

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