The following article by Zack Beauchamp was posted on the Vox website October 10, 2017:
What do all the players in the photo have in common?
The NHL champion Pittsburgh Penguins visited the White House on Tuesday, a move that seemed to many like a deliberate slap in the face of the black athletes whom the president had been attacking on Twitter and in public appearances for the past several weeks.
The assembled Penguins players were all white; the lone nonwhite player on the championship squad, a black Canadian named Trevor Daley, could not attend due to scheduling conflicts. And then at the very end of the event, Trump said something that sounds like boilerplate — but, in context, was kind of absurd. Continue reading “Trump congratulates mostly non-American NHL team on being “incredible patriots””