NBC censors clip of 49ers star Nick Bosa in MAGA hat from social media feed

San Francisco 49ers prima protect extremity Nick Bosa wore a MAGA chapeau and photo-bombed NBC’s post-game question and reply aft nan team’s triumph complete nan Dallas Cowboys connected Sunday night, but nan web initially omitted nan motion from clips that it posted connected its societal media feed.

The incident took spot astatine Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara connected Sunday nighttime pursuing nan Niners’ 30-24 triumph complete Dallas, which was broadcast connected NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.”

Melissa Stark, NBC’s sideline reporter, interviewed 3 of nan Niners’ outstanding performers from nan crippled — backmost Brock Purdy, tight extremity George Kittle and moving backmost Isaac Guerendo.

At nan commencement of nan segment, Bosa, who is known to beryllium a protagonist of erstwhile President Donald Trump, walked up down nan group and inserted himself into nan camera’s section of view.

Wearing a achromatic chapeau emblazoned pinch nan motto “Make America Great Again,” he walked up down Stark and Purdy and gestured pinch some hands arsenic if to tie attraction to nan pro-Trump headgear.

Bosa appeared for a fewer seconds earlier stepping away. After nan little interruption, Stark continued nan post-game question and reply pinch nan 3 Niners.

NBC posted nan clip of nan post-game question and reply though nan type that was published did not see Bosa’s pro-Trump cameo, according to nan news tract Outkick.

When societal media users apparently protested nan edit, NBC deleted nan edited version.

On Monday morning, however, it posted nan full, unedited video showing nan Stark question and reply and Bosa’s introduction into nan frame.

The Post has sought remark from NBC.

When reporters asked Bosa for remark connected nan gesture, he said: “I’m not gonna talk excessively overmuch astir it, but I deliberation it’s an important time.”

Trump, who is moving against Vice President Kamala Harris, is seeking a 2nd word successful nan White House. Voters will formed their ballots connected Nov. 5.

Bosa was an outspoken Trump protagonist during his collegiate playing days astatine Ohio State.

After Bosa was drafted by nan 49ers successful 2019, he scrubbed his societal media accounts of posts that praised Trump and were captious of Colin Kaepernick, nan erstwhile backmost who began kneeling during nan nationalist anthem successful 2016 to protestation constabulary brutality.