Nick Bosa wore a MAGA hat on the same day as a racist Trump rally

An unusual moment occurred after the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night. Niners quarterback Brock Purdy was being interviewed by NBC when teammate Nick Bosa suddenly showed up wearing a MAGA hat. And he didn't just wear it. He pointed proudly.

Good for Bosa. He can make any political statement he wants. I Love The. I love it when athletes freely express these beliefs.

With this expression comes a test. It was a highly unusual step. Players rarely, if ever, conduct videobomb interviews to campaign for a political candidate. But Bosa made it an issue, so let's take a look at what he supports, what he supports, what he loves so much that it was worth jumping in front of a TV camera and pointing to his MAGA hat as he wasn't even interviewed yet.

To do this we have to travel back in time for a moment. Not long. Actually, on the same day Bosa slipped into Purdy's interview, just hours earlier and 3,000 miles away, one of the most shameful moments in recent American political history. Let's go to the Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. Many people there wore the same hat as Bosa.

A CNN headline described the rally this way: “Trump loyalists unleash racist, vulgar attacks on Harris and Democrats at New York City rally.” This was the New York Times: “Trump at MSG: A final carnival of grievances and racism.” This was MSNBC: “With racist rally at Madison Square Garden, Trump and his allies prove Democrats' point.” This was The Daily Beast: “Donald Trump's racist rally in NYC was disgusting. It was also political suicide.”

The Times described it as “a release of anger” and “a vivid and sometimes racist display of the dark energy that animates the MAGA movement.”

Sure, maybe Bosa wouldn't believe the reporting. But there is no doubt about what happened. It's all on tape. Everything is verifiable. It's all extremely terrible too. Just a sewer system full of ugliness and white nationalism.

This is what the hat that Bosa so proudly displayed stands for.

“Before the Republican candidate even took the stage, the audience was treated to an avalanche of racist and misogynistic comments,” MSNBC reported. “One speaker joined a rally attendee in calling Harris 'the devil' and 'the Antichrist.'” Right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson joked that the Democratic vice president, who is black and Indian, is “the first Samoan-Malaysian, former Californian.” Low IQ prosecutor ever elected president.”

This is what the hat that Bosa so proudly displayed stands for.

One speaker made a vile joke about Puerto Ricans having too many children. The same comedian called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.” He also talked about a black friend with whom he had “carved watermelons.”

This is what the hat that Bosa so proudly displayed stands for.

Historians and others drew parallels to the Nazi garden gathering in 1939. At first it seemed crazy. The only thing you compare to Nazis are Nazis. But you know, after watching clips of the event and reading the coverage of it, the comparisons aren't crazy.

At the rally, Trump once again described his opponents as “the enemy from within.” Trump has called people vermin and said immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country. Journalist Anne Applebaum, who writes about autocracies, wrote this in an article in The Atlantic titled “Trump Speaks Like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.”

“If you associate your opponents with sickness, sickness and poisoned blood, if you dehumanize them as insects or animals, if you talk about crushing or cleaning them as if they were pests or bacteria, then you can defeat them much more easily arrest them, deprive them of their rights, exclude them or even kill them. If they are parasites, they cannot enjoy freedom of speech or freedoms of any kind. They will not be held accountable.

This is what the hat that Bosa so proudly displayed stands for.

After the game, Bosa declined to talk about why he wore the hat. Which was an extremely cowardly move for a guy who is so tough on the field.

He doesn't want to talk about it closer to the media because then he would be asked detailed questions about why he likes Trump, and while he would be praised by the right, he would be vilified in other circles. That's why he's chosen the bold path, which is to show that he's a Trump supporter while avoiding all the smoke that comes with it.

Let's put it this way: He's no Colin Kaepernick.

Bosa doesn't strike me as an intellectual who wants to examine the financial impact of Trump's tariffs. I don't think he cares about NATO. So I have to ask: What exactly does he like about MAGA?

And what do some of his black and brown teammates think about the man he supports who calls immigrants and people of color vermin? Or who spread the racist lie that Haitians ate dogs and cats in a small Ohio town? Put the lives of innocent people at risk?

Do these players just ignore it? Do they say something? Or are they just in it to win?

What do they say when they see him wearing that hat?

The hat that Bosa wears so proudly.

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