Jeffress also said that he believed "tens of millions of Americans agree" with President Donald Trump's recent calls for NFL players to be fired if they participate in the protest. Jeffress spoke at multiple Trump campaign rallies during the buildup to the 2016 presidential election and joined his advisory board of evangelical leaders that same year. "These players ought to be thanking God that they live in a country where they’re not only free to earn millions of dollars every year, but they’re also free from the worry of being shot in the head for taking a knee like they would be if they were in North Korea." "I think what these players are doing is absolutely wrong," Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist pastor in Texas and one of President Donald Trump's chief advisers about and liaison to America's Evangelical Christian community, said on "Fox & Friends" on Monday, according to the Dallas Morning News. A Texas pastor said NFL players who protest police brutality and racism by kneeling during the national anthem should be "thanking God" that they live in America and are "free to earn millions of dollars every year" because they don't have to worry about being "shot in the head," like he said they might be if they lived in North Korea.
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