President Barack Obama couldn’t help himself.
Obama delivered a Labor Day speech Monday in Boston, during which he unveiled an executive order forcing companies that contract with the federal government to provide paid sick leave to their employees. The president also slipped in a Tom Brady reference, much to the crowd’s delight.
“Even Brady’s happy he’s got a union,” Obama joked. “They had his back. You know if Brady needs a union, we definitely need unions.”
Brady’s four-game Deflategate suspension was vacated last week by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman. The New England Patriots quarterback, of course, was represented by the NFL Players Association throughout his appeal process and the settlement hearings in Manhattan, hence Obama’s witty connection between Brady and unions.
Well played, POTUS.
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