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Today’s Super Bowl coverage will feature @POTUS lying to us. All due respect to @margbrennan, but we really don’t need to see or hear Trump say these words to grasp their full meaning. They should stand on their own, independent of his charlatan theatrics. cbsn.ws/2t162FH
In the @CBSNews interview, there is the lying you may expect: about Pelosi, migrants, Russia, black people liking him. But two bits concerning football stand out, and not just because it is Super Bowl Sunday. Read this bit where @margbrennan asks Trump about Colin Kaepernick. 
Trump ignores @margbrennan’s (actually incorrect) encapsulation of Kaepernick’s argument, and insists that he has pretty much solved the issue that Kaepernick was complaining about by making the FIRST STEP Act law. All it took was one piece of criminal justice legislation, folks!
Continuing his tradition of mischaracterizing Kaepernick’s protest and going unchallenged by the interviewer after he does so, Trump displays barely a passing interest in an issue that literally means life or death for people who look like me. Even after he “took care of that.”
This was one of the dangers in hyping the FIRST STEP Act victory in the way that some folks did. Van Jones even said that Trump was on his way to becoming the “uniter-in-chief.” Folks, he thinks he is finished with criminal justice reform. That’s all we’re ever getting from him.
The second part of @margbrennan’s Trump interview that I found useful was the bit that most Americans will find most irrelevant: when she asks him whether he will allow his youngest son to play football.
By steering his son away from football, Trump is speaking to a larger trend that we are seeing with whiter, wealthier families. As @AlanaSemuels recently reported, the sport and its extreme health risks are being relegated to the poorest and the blackest. on.theatln.tc/RRsJMxr
If you are able to watch @RealSportsHBO’s newest episode this Super Bowl Sunday, make a point to do so. It addresses the growing class disparity in football, with low-income kids increasingly becoming the labor force in a sport that isn’t yet safe enough.
