{"id":552465,"date":"2026-10-22T20:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=552465"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:59:57","slug":"trump-calls-lebron-james-a-total-disgrace-over-national-anthem-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/trump-calls-lebron-james-a-total-disgrace-over-national-anthem-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls LeBron James a \u201cTotal Disgrace\u201d Over National Anthem Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized LeBron James over his behavior during the national anthem before the Philadelphia 76ers\u2019 season opener against the New York Knicks, demanding an apology from the NBA star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117485480701878421\">Truth Social<\/a> on Thursday, Trump shared a video showing James moving around and practicing his shooting routine during the nation&#8217;s anthem ahead of Tuesday\u2019s game at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile listening to our National Anthem, LeBron James disrespects our Country! I said right from the beginning that he\u2019s no good, a TOTAL DISGRACE,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cLeBron James should apologize to all of those Great American Warriors and Heroes who died for the American Flag, and all that our Country stands for!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donald Trump calls out LeBron James  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/knuxWtNtSD\">pic.twitter.com\/knuxWtNtSD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/2113329103608676594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump shared a video showing James moving around and practicing his shooting routine during the nation&#8217;s anthem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":552468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":true,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-552465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/10\/trump-lebron.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552470,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552465\/revisions\/552470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552465"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=552465"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=552465"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=552465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}