Donald Trump is the schoolyard bully who bullies all around him until he comes up against the big boys in the playground and against them he meets his match.

His tasteless tirade against NFL players who chose to kneel rather than stand for the United States national anthem has backfired. 

With his long history of being a bombastic bully, Trump challenged team owners to fire the players, or the “sons of bitches” as he so eloquently put it, but players and owners defied Trump’s despotic diatribe.