Seagal disagrees with the football players who refused to stand up when the national anthem was being played, calling it 'outrageous' and 'disgusting.'
- Sep 28, 2017
AceShowbiz - Steven Seagal blasted NFL players who took a knee in silent protest of racial injustice when he appeared on "Good Morning Britain" recently. Speaking from Moscow via satellite, the 65-year-old actor who became a Russian citizen in 2016 also defended President Donald Trump.
"I believe in free speech, I believe that everyone's entitled to their own opinion but I don't agree that they should hold the United States of America or the world hostage by taking a venue where people are tuning in to watch a football game and imposing their political views," the actor argued. "I think it's outrageous, I think it's a joke, it's disgusting. I respect the American flag and I myself have risked my life countless times for the American flag and I don't understand or agree with this kind of behavior. I think it's an outrage."
He also said, "We have a really unfortunate situation in the sense that even though he was democratically elected, there are so many people out there who don't feel that that's the case and we have just, you know, a ton of enemies within."
"We have these, you know, democrats that have this whole other agenda...this whole group of leftover Obama-ites and people who feel that they should really sort of, kind of, overthrow Trump and any decisions he makes, anything that he tries to do, he gets blocked so often from, you know, sort of the enemies within. So it's very difficult for him to do anything."
During the interview, Seagal believed Russia would make a "great" ally for America. He denied allegations that the country was meddling in the U.S. presidential election. "Every country is involved in espionage. Every single country. The American spy, the British spy, the Russian spy - we all spy on each other," he said. "However. For anyone to think that Vladimir Putin had anything to do with fixing the elections or even that the Russians have that kind of technology is stupid."
