Yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of D-Day, but you wouldn’t know it from the official White House twitter feed. They posted or RT’d 7 different items about the Denver Broncos, who visited the White House Monday to celebrate their 2016 Super Bowl win, with 2 tweets on D-Day and the troops.
Check it out…
First, there was a reminder that the Broncos were on the way:
Watch at 4:25pm ET as @POTUS congratulates the 2016 Super Bowl Champion Denver @Broncos at the White House: https://t.co/xrm2cwRkWJ
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 6, 2016
2. Then came a shot of the crowd at the event:
"Let’s give it up for the Super Bowl Champion Denver @Broncos!" —@POTUS welcoming the Broncos to the White House pic.twitter.com/1yHHV0Xap2
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 6, 2016
3. A re-tweet of a line from the president’s speech:
"This team is far more than a collection of players. The @Broncos are a way of life not just in Colorado but throughout the Mountain West."
— WH Live (Archived) (@WHLive44) June 6, 2016
4. A thank you for “honoring” the troops:
"Holding fitness clinics."
"Mentoring young people."
"Honoring our troops."
—@POTUS on how the @Broncos give back to their community— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 6, 2016
5. A RT of the president receiving his obligatory swag:
"This is a well-deserved celebration of an extraordinary season." – @POTUS pic.twitter.com/RNl5o9zKBq
— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) June 6, 2016
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6. Video!
"On and off the field, these guys are champs." —@POTUS celebrating the 2016 Super Bowl Champion Denver @Broncos: https://t.co/oiaNPzvupJ
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 6, 2016
And finally, a Peyton Manning autograph:
"The only quarterback to lead two different teams to Super Bowl wins." —@POTUS on Peyton: https://t.co/GIuE47taVq pic.twitter.com/uiSF1PE9nu
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 6, 2016
The president did touch on the importance of the military in his speech. From the Washington Post:
Ahead of the ceremony, the Broncos players met with veterans as part of the Wounded Warriors program, and the president emphasized that “as much fun as this [football] is, it only happens because of the extraordinary sacrifice of our men and women in uniform.”
But it was the Broncos who tweeted out an image of the “real heroes”:
Today's real heroes. #WoundedWarriors pic.twitter.com/nygiupHUmh
— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) June 6, 2016
Here are the 2 tweets honoring the military. One is a link to a Facebook post where the president talks about his meeting with a wounded Army Ranger, Cory Remsburg and the 2nd is a RT of Remsburg linking back to the same Facebook post:
"Of all the people I've met as President, no one has inspired me more than Cory." —@POTUS: https://t.co/eUoMlVHLHL pic.twitter.com/lV0TyhxxPJ
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 6, 2016
Thank you @POTUS for the honor of meeting with you in the Oval Office. https://t.co/P4Km70TGyu
— CORY REMSBURG (@RangerRemsburg) June 6, 2016
Flashback. Curt Schilling was right:
Curt Schilling SLAMS President Obama for what he'll be doing on D-Day anniversary https://t.co/Cf1QjnHfna
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 2, 2016
Maybe next time, 7 tweets on the Wounded Warriors and 2 on the football players, heh?
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