LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Donald Trump became the first sitting president in nearly a half-century at a regular-season NFL game, attending the Washington Commanders’ 44-22 loss to the visiting Detroit Lions on Sunday.
There were loud boos from some spectators in the stands when Trump was shown on the videoboard late in the first half — standing in a suite with House Speaker Mike Johnson — and again when the president was introduced by the stadium announcer at halftime.
The jeering continued while Trump read an oath for members of the military to recite as part of an on-field enlistment ceremony during the break in the game.
I’ve seen this criticism a couple of times and I’m not sure I’m following. He was reading out the pledge that service members were taking on the field, you know the thing people do where the officiator says the words your supposed to say and you repeat them back? “State your name” is a pretty common thing in that when the person repeating the words is supposed to say their own name.
Are people upset because they think Trump should have said the oath himself, and thus, should have said his own name? Because that could cause some confusion with the soldiers repeating his words.
The only other thing I can think of is that people are just so pants-shittingly stupid that they couldn’t connect that he was reading out a pledge for soldiers to follow, and instead thought he was just reading from a teleprompter or a script and fucked up by not saying his own name. I really hope that’s not why people are upset because, holy shit how fucking stupid do you have to be to think that?