Football too risky for my li’l boy: Don

President Trump, who three years ago ripped the NFL as being “soft,” said that he would not steer his son Barron toward playing football, calling it a “dangerous sport.”

Trump told “Face the Nation” in an interview that aired on Super Bowl Sunday that he is happy that his 12year-old son plays a lot of soccer and not the more physical sport.

“I just don’t like the reports that I see coming out having to do with football,” Trump told Margaret Brennan. “I mean, it’s a dangerous sport and I think it’s ... really tough, I thought the equipment would get better, and it has. The helmets have gotten far better but it hasn’t solved the problem.”

As the Rams prepared to square off with the Patriots in Super Bowl LIII, Trump reiterated his belief that players should not kneel for the national anthem.

“You have to respect our flag and our country,” he said. “I want that as President and I’d want that as a citizen.”

When asked about controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Trump pointed to the “criminal judicial reform” that he has accomplished during his term. Kaepernick was the first NFL player who declined to stand during the national anthem. He is currently without a team.

Trump praised the NFL overall as a “great product” during the interview, but he was running a different route three years ago, calling the games “crummy.”

“The whole game is all screwed up,” Trump said at a rally in January of 2016 when he was running for President, according to The Washington Post. “You say, ‘Wow, what a tackle.’ Bing. Flag. Football has become soft. Football has become soft.”

Trump told Brennan that he was going to watch the game Sunday with a group of friends at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. When asked if he was betting on the Patriots, the President praised Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick and owner Robert Kraft.

“It’s a great chemistry on that team,” he said.