players who kneeled yesterday, just as the graham cassidy bill was dying in the senate and the candidate he was backing was about to lose the alabama senate run jauch at the tilme. folks, president trump sent 16 tweets yesterday and another one today. one taking aim at the most dishonest and corrupt media. and one taunting north korea that he has a much bigger and powerful nuclear button. joining me, the creator of a trump tweet taxotomy. a u.s. berkeley professor, mr. lakeoff. been a while. thanks for coming on. pleasure to be here, chuck. let me start with your taxotomy here and ask you sort of in light of, you put all of this out and kniss wthis was bee bannon explosion that took place later today. and now i look at this tweet storm that he went on overish the last 48 hours and i ask you, how do you what you don t
escalating free speech and race. many players beople booed the p who kneeled yesterday. those are the people who demand respect for the flag. donald trump said, this issue of kneeling has nothing to do with the racist issue. it has to do with respect to the flag. colin kaepernick, this photo taken exactly one year ago. but take a look at yesterday. players, coaches, owners at stadiums from los angeles to philadelphia, london, everywhere in between, locking arms, some kneeling, some staying in the locker room while the anthem played. in chicago the pittsburgh steelers sideline empty as the star-spangled banner echoed in
kate, another flurry of tweets from the president, once again, as he often does, teeing up the conversation first thing in the morning, like it or not, and we ve put together a graphic of three of those tweets that really give you a flavor of where the president was going this morning. the first one, focusing on professional racing. so proud of nascar and its supporters and fans they won t put up with disrespecting our country or our flag. they said it loud and clear. the second tweet there, many people booed the players, talking about the nfl now, who kneeled yesterday, which was a small percentage of total. these are fans who demand respect for our flag and the third one you see on the screen the issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race. it s about respect for our country, flag and national anthem. nfl must respect this. so on the first tweet, there was, if you will, a bit of a response this morning from someone you could describe only