'A Dangerous Sport.' President Trump Says He Wouldn't Encourage Son Barron to Play Football
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President Donald Trump says he wouldn’t steer son Barron toward football, saying it’s “a dangerous sport,” but also wouldn’t stand in the way if the soccer-playing 12-year-old wanted to put on pads.
The NFL fan tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” in an interview taped before the Super Bowl that football is “really tough.”
He says equipment, including helmets, has improved “but it hasn’t solved the problem.”
Trump thinks the NFL “is a great product.” But as for Barron playing, the president calls it a “very tough question.”
“If he wanted to? Yes. Would I steer him that way? No, I wouldn’t.”
The president says many people, “including me, thought soccer would probably never make it in this country, but it really is moving forward rapidly.”
Trump has, in the past, bemoaned that football games have become less violent. The NFL and college football have increased penalties and enforcement for illegal hits to the head and for hitting defenseless players.
“They’re ruining the game,” he said during a rally in Alabama in September 2017.
He said players were being thrown out for aggressive tackles, and it’s “not the same game.”
He even admitted he was wrong about something for the first time I can remember.
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