President Donald Trump is wrong. The NFL doesn’t get ‘massive tax breaks.’

It’s as certain as the sunrise. We can always count on some kind of tweetstorm from President Donald Trump to start each day. Trump’s tweets have focused on the NFL of late, and he shared some inaccurate information on Tuesday about the league’s finances.

Trump pointed to “massive tax breaks” the NFL receives as justification for perpetuating drama and errant notions about player protests during the national anthem.

League spokesman Joe Lockhart addressed the issue during a conference call with the media on Tuesday.

The league itself held non-profit status and had been exempt from taxes since 1942, which sounds ridiculous considering the amount of revenue it generates each year. But it’s important to know that the league office was the entity with the exemption. The 32 individual teams are subject to taxes.

The NFL was able to secure tax-exempt status as a trade association, but these days, it doesn’t really resemble one of those. The public began to focus on the fact that the league wasn’t paying taxes on its revenue, and with a commissioner who was making around $44 million a year at last count, that was bound to raise some eyebrows. So the league voluntarily gave up its tax-exempt status in 2015.

The subject of players standing for the national anthem also came up on Tuesday’s call.

Trump praised Jerry Jones this week for saying any player who didn’t stand for the anthem would be benched.

Owners will consider a rule requiring players to stand for the national anthem at next week’s annual fall meeting in New York. If the league were to pass such a rule, it would almost certainly be challenged by the NFLPA.

Trump’s latest Twitter fallacy comes just two days after Vice President Mike Pence created a distraction by walking out of a Colts game after several 49ers players kneeled during the national anthem. These protests began with the 49ers, when Colin Kaepernick first began to sit for the anthem during the 2016 preseason. San Francisco players have consistently participated in these demonstrations, and Trump and Pence knew it.

It’s also worth noting that player protests during the national anthem are not intended to disrespect the anthem, flag, or nation. Players who protest are doing so to raise awareness of the inequality and oppression black Americans face daily.

This is not even remotely Trump’s first false statement about the NFL. In the past, the president has said that ratings and attendance are down because of anthem protests, players can’t dance in the end zone, and that there’s a rule teams could enforce to make players stand for the anthem. All of these things are categorically false.

Trump’s ire at the NFL is a convenient distraction from this administration’s poor response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, the investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections with Russia, his dangerously misguided approach to dealing with North Korea, and other issues. Nevertheless, his tweets making the league just one more battleground in the culture war are likely to continue.