Make no mistake: New Orleans Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins is more than an athlete and he's not afraid to air his thoughts.

Jenkins recently joined Don Lemon of CNN in a quick interview to discuss a recent tweet of U.S. President Donald Trump. In another headline-grabbing statement, the POTUS once again denounced the kneeling of NFL players during the national anthem.

The two-time Super Bowl champion didn't hold back and mentioned that the POTUS is simply choosing to ignore the meaning behind the highly controversial kneeling protests in the NFL for the past few years. Jenkins also warned that people should not look at sports as some sort of escape amid the social injustice movement that's going on in the country, as they are probably set to be disappointed.

“I think anybody who's looking to use sports, especially this year, as an outlet to kind of get away from what's happening right now in our country is probably gonna be sadly mistaken especially as we move towards the fall,” the Saints vet added.

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Malcolm Jenkins furthered that it has been a welcome development for him to see other major sports leagues like the MLB, NBA, WNBA and even NASCAR take their own stand and fight social injustice. These leagues have allowed their athletes and have given them a platform to voice out their opinions and to join the ever growing Black Lives Matter movement.

“It's really inspiring to see players and athletes like Maya Moore who gave up her whole WNBA career to fight for somebody who's been wrongly convicted. Kenny Stills and Tobias Harris who are putting a lot of pressure on Attorney General Daniel Cameron to make an arrest and arrest the murderers of Breonna Taylor,” the Saints safety added. “So I think there's a lot of movement  obviously with all social unrest and I don't think it's going anywhere regardless of what the sport is.”