Fashion Icon McConnell Says He’ll ‘Make The First Order’ If Nike Brings Back Sneakers

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 02: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to the podium before speaking during a news conference following a weekly policy luncheon on April 2, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo b... WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 02: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to the podium before speaking during a news conference following a weekly policy luncheon on April 2, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is joining in the chorus of conservative outrage over Nike’s recall of sneakers adorned with an image of the Betsy Ross American flag, due to its reverberations of an era of slavery.

According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, McConnell weighed in Tuesday at an unrelated event in his home state.

“If we’re in a political environment where the American flag has become controversial to Americans, I think we’ve got a problem,” McConnell said. “I hope Nike either releases these shoes or some other shoe maker picks up the flag, puts it on a pair of shoes and starts selling it. I’ll make the first order.”

Nike pulled the sneakers after former NFL player Colin Kaepernick aired his opposition to the design. The NAACP chimed in that the flag had been appropriated by some white nationalist groups as a protest to America’s increasing diversification.

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  1. Fashion Icon McConnell Says He’ll ‘Make The First Order’ If Nike Brings Back Sneakers

    I hate Mitch McConnell. Just sayin’.

    Also, wasn’t “The First Order” what the Empire was called in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?

  2. Wouldn’t he be better off with their version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shoes? Maybe he should find out where they make those instead and order him up a pair.

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  3. Any chance Nike can pre-load them with athlete’s foot? Or anthrax?

  4. Perhaps he’d like some with a nice Confederate or Gadsden flag on them too?

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