Trump cancelled the Philadelphia Eagles’ White House visit because his ego is hurt.

The Eagles were scheduled to participate in the annual tradition after winning the Super Bowl this past February. Several prominent players said they would not attend the ceremony.

And Trump took to Twitter with this message:

Trump has repeatedly ridiculed athletes who do not stand for the national anthem, calling for them to be fired, suggesting they don’t deserve to be in this country and during a rally in Alabama in 2017 said, “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a b*tch off the field right now! Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!'”

More recently, the NFL announced a new policy in regards to players protesting injustice while on the field. The policy requires players and personnel to stand if they are on the field during the performance of the national anthem. As addressed in Trumps’ tweet, the policy gives players and personnel the option to stay off the field if they choose not to stand.  The policy also states that the league will fine a club “if its personnel are on the field and do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.

The language of the policy is misleading. To say, “stand and show respect,” implies that not standing is disrespectful. If not standing is disrespectful then what else is considered disrespectful? Is taking pictures with your friends during the national anthem disrespectful? Is ordering a beer during the national anthem disrespectful?

Furthermore, who is deciding what constitutes being respectful?

Between Trump’s statements and the white flag the NFL just threw out with this new anthem policy, it appears that Donald Trump is deciding what is respectful and what is not. In another tweet from Trump on Tuesday, “NFL, no escaping to Locker Rooms!,” it is clear that unless the NFL will blindly agree with him, they can never win.