Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech Tuesday at Georgetown whose ostensible purpose was proclaiming the Trump administration’s support for free and open intellectual discourse on college campuses. (Its actual goal was seemingly to encourage right-wing resentment toward universities who’ve declined to host events by intellectually vacuous white-supremacist sewer trolls like Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter.) Here’s one of the lines in his remarks:
Here, meanwhile, is what Sessions’ boss, the highest-ranking government official in this great land, wrote three hours ago about the black NFL players engaging in political protest by kneeling during the national anthem:
A retraction of Trump’s remarks in light of their obvious hypocrisy and inappropriateness will no doubt be forthcoming by the end of the day.
