Trump returns to bashing NFL after offensive remarks to WWII vets

One day after President Trump's disrespectful comments to World War II heroes, he's back to preaching patriotism — about the NFL.

The commander-in-chief started his day Tuesday by tweeting about the 24 players who kneeled at NFL games over the weekend.

"The American public is fed up with the disrespect the NFL is paying to our Country, our Flag and our National Anthem," Trump tweeted. "Weak and out of control!"

The President's critics said the same thing about him, however, after an insensitive remark Trump made a day earlier.

During a ceremony honoring Navajo war veterans, Trump referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as "Pocahontas," a term many consider a racial slur.

"You were here long before any of us were here," Trump told the Navajo Code Talkers. "Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas."

Trump, who didn't mention Warren by name, has regularly referred to the Massachusetts liberal as the 17th century figure because she once claimed Native American lineage without evidence.

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Warren and the Navajo Nation condemned Trump for making the remark while honoring the World War II vets, whose communications in their native tongue was crucial to the U.S. war effort.

Trump has not apologized for his remark, and Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the comment, saying Warren has lied about her heritage "to advance her career."

Trump has been on a tear against kneeling NFL players since September.

Many players began to sit or kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality, but the demonstrations grew to also become a rebuke of Trump.