No player on the Eagles took a knee during the national anthem during the 2017 regular season, post season or Super Bowl last season.
At 10:55 p.m. on June 4, Trump tweeted that a planned White House event with the Eagles was canceled, writing, “Staying in the Locker Room for the playing of our National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling.” Shortly after, Fox News tweeted out a video clip from Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream that misleadingly showed Eagles players kneeling. The images of players kneeling aired in the clip “are players kneeling to pray prior to the game and not during the national anthem.”
Fox News has since issued an apology.
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Fox News used images of Eagles players praying to suggest they kneeled during the national anthem
