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One of the predominant news stories of late September 2017 was a tweet storm that President Trump directed at NFL players who chose to take a knee rather than during the national anthem. One highly publicized tweet in particular drew notice, in which Trump seemingly suggested that fans should boycott games and that the league should prohibit such protests: In particular, the President was widely criticized for supposedly devoting more time and attention to condemning the pre-game behavior of football players than to arranging much-needed federal aid to Puerto Rico, which had just been devastated by Hurricane Maria: It was with a blithe sense of irony, then, that pundits dug up and recirculated a tweet issued by citizen Donald Trump four years before, in which Trump took President Obama to task for weighing in on the controversy over the name of the Washington Redskins football team, describing the issue as nonsense and admonishing Obama to focus on the country's far bigger problems instead: For his part, President Trump asserted that whatever the volume and nature of his tweets, he had not been distracted from tending to hurricane relief efforts by the NFL issue:
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