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Monday Declared “National Kneel At Work Day” To Protest Trump Presidency

Americans will take a knee at their jobs today to “Get that son of a bitch out of the Oval Office right now, out, he’s fired!”

Allan Ishac
3 min readSep 25, 2017

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Politicians and religious leaders in Washington were among those preparing to join the protest Monday. Many said that kneeling on pavement was “friggin’ stupid,” and that they would be bringing knee pads to work today for the actual protest action. (Credit: mnnonline.org)

Millions of Americans have decided to bond together in protest of President Trump’s recent intimidation of NFL athletes by dropping to one knee for the duration of their workdays on Monday.

Wherever they are, and whatever professions they’re in — from auto plant workers on the assembly line to attorneys in court, landscape architects to doctors and nurses in our nation’s hospitals — all say they will do their jobs on their knees, in spite of any discomfort that they may experience.

Dozens of social workers in Baltimore practiced over the weekend for the national day of kneeling. Some were already cramping. (Credit: memespp.com)

The nationwide gesture is designed to send a strong message to Mr. Trump that his racist, anti-free speech rhetoric can’t continue, this after he directly attacked NFL athletes who refused to stand for the national anthem in the harshest of terms: “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these N.F.L. owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch…

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Allan Ishac

Author of The Mystic In The Mews (themysticinthemews.com). Satirist. Humor writer. Former advertising creative director. Visit me at allanishac.com.