Austin Aries Weighs in on NFL Protests, Says Trump Has to Be More ‘Self-Aware’

Austin Aries discussed the protests taking place in the NFL, why wrestlers won’t be doing the same and more in a new interview on The Tomorrow Show. You can check out the video and highlights below:

On why you won’t see wrestlers protest the way NFL players are: “It’s a little different I think, in some ways. I think my point is that in the NFL right now, if you take a stand and if your owner doesn’t like it, you’ve got 30 other teams you can go play for. And your performance and how good you are would base, it should unless your Colin Kaepernick, if you have a spot or not. In our situation it’s a little different because you don’t have those luxuries, so more guys might toe the line there for fear of not having a job.”

On the protests themselves: “It’d be nice if we did [protest]. It’d be nice across the board because I think people are missing the point of what this is about. If you’re a patriot you should 100%, whether you agree or disagree, be for the right for these people to do whatever they want, even if you feel disrespected. When you say they’re disrespecting the soldiers, that’s off-base [because] these soldiers have gone and put their lives on the line so these guys have the right to do this. When I went over there and visit these soldiers you realize a lot of them don’t agree with why they’re over there doing this, they don’t agree with the reasoning, but they’re doing their job so we all have the right to have these choices.”

On Trump’s reactions to the protests: “And Trump has to be a little more self-aware, especially when you look at the sports he’s attacking. He’s basically telling them, ‘Hey you owners, get your slaves back in place and you tell them when they stand and when they kneel and if they don’t, you fire them. If they want to make money off of us, then they do what we say. Except for those very fine people in NASCAR.’ And NASCAR only has one minority driver full-time, just one black driver.”

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