While fielding questions on his politics during an appearance on the conservative "Offended American" podcast on Monday, August 21, George Foreman questioned the merit of athletes who've been using their platform to talk politics. The heavyweight great posed that sports journalism shifted after an opinionated Muhammad Ali took boxing by storm and that prior to that point athletes were only interviewed on the game they played. Since Ali, Foreman then inferred, players have come along and exploited the athlete/activist niche that he carved, knowing the kind of focus it could bring them for their careers. To Foreman's determination, that is what Colin Kaepernick has been up to over the past year.

"A lot of guys say, 'Look, I got all this money but nobody knows me so let me say something like Muhammad Ali and maybe I'll be different,'" Foreman told "Offended American" hosts, Jacob Wohl and Hunter Avallone. "That's all that is. I don't pay much attention to what kids do. The young man who didn't want to stand for the national anthem, a lot of us died in wars so they could have that privilege, really."

As the podcast went on, Foreman would further invite political questions, not once griping about why a man who made his name boxing would be asked to explore his social views before sports fans. Rather, when Wohl and Avallone hopped from the subject of Kaepernick kneeling to Kevin Durant protesting an NBA Champions White House visit, he affirmed his continued support of the President, and likened Durant and anyone else who would skip out on such an opportunity, to a sore loser, despite admitting that he did the same for political reasons, back in his day.

Foreman and President Trump are actually good friends and have been since the early 90's when Trump hosted and helped promote some of the matches he fought late in his career. He is unapologetic about his favor for Trump, but he is sorry for his behavior back in the 60's when as a supporter of Hubert Humphrey he refused to visit Richard Nixon. If he had to do it all again, Foreman says he would. But would he have been more outspoken about social and political issues were he to go back? Not a chance. In fact, while he vouches for Kaepernick only exercising his right to free speech, he then calls Durant and Kaepernick's choice of words "weapons of mass destruction."

Check out a clip from the interview above.