President Donald Trump at*acked basketball star LeBron James during an extended interview with cons-ervative radio host Rush Limbaugh, calling James a ‘hater’ shortly before he was set to suit up for his team’s NBA playoff game.
Trump, who remains at the White House following his positive test for COVID-19, tore into the player who has lent his star power to prote-sts of police use of deadly force while also de-lving into politics and the cha-rged issue of voter suppr-ession.
‘The NBA has become so political that nobody cares about it anymore,’ Trump said in an interview where he also dropped an F-bo*b while r!pping Ir-an and said he was no longer taking any medication.
‘I don’t even know who’s playing in the finals,’ he said, on the night of a Game 5 of the series between James’ Lakers and the Miami Heat.
‘I don’t know anybody that’s watching the NBA” LeBron is a spokesman for the Democratic party and a very na*ty spokesman,’ Trump said, taking on one of his favorite ins-ults: ‘I don’t know him, I never met him.”Because, again, I’ve done so much for the Bla-ck community and people don’t wanna see that and he’s a great basketball player but people don’t wanna see a guy that way.
They don’t want to see that. We have enough difficulty during the week, you don’t wanna sit down watching a basketball game and then watch somebody that ha*es your guts, okay, He’s a ha*er.’Trump also at*acked 2016 rival Hillary Clinton for fa!ling to measure up to the 6’9′ player.’All I know is when he endorsed Hillary, I said, that’s the greatest endorsement I’ve ever seen because when he endorsed Hillary four years ago, she came up to his kn-ee.
I said that is not the best looking president I’ve ever seen.”She came up to his kn-ee,’ added Limbaugh, laughing.After Trump called James ‘an*ry’ Limbaugh added: ‘They are. They are an*ry.’It was one of many topics Trump bru-shed on while ga-bbing with Limbaugh. Trump hasn’t been seen in public since arriving back at the White House Monday night.
He is planning to hold a rally at the White House Saturday despite the string of White House officials and advisors who have tested positive for COVID-19. Then Trump called Bla-ck Lives Matter, a group that came to prom-inence after the police k!lling of Flo-yd in Minneapolis, a ‘M*xist’ organization.’And now I understand — don’t forget, Bl-ack Lives Matter, what was Bla-ck Lives Matter? P!gs in a blanket, fry ’em like ba-con.
The first time I ever heard of Bl-ack Lives Matter, I said that’s such a te*rible term because it’s such a rac!st term. It’s a term that sows division between bla-cks and whites and everybody else. And it’s a very bad term, for bla-cks. But they were very a*gry. It’s a Ma*xist organization,’ he said. The group experienced a bu*st of national popularity, then saw its approval d!p among nationwide prote-sts, some of which featured v!olence.
Local governments in New York and Washington embraced the message, and the slogan is painted on streets in front of the White House and on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. James, who did endorse Clinton in 2016, has been using his celebrity not only to pu*h Bl*ck Lives Matter to in a nationwide call for voter registration.’We must be heard!!!. Thank you at Lyft for supporting our f!ght aga!nst voter suppression,’ he wrote in a p!nned tweet on his Twitter account.
He helped form nonprofit More Than A Vote to f!ght bla*k voter suppre-ssion and p!tched it to his more than 100 Twitter and Instagram followers. Last August, amid contr*versy after NBA players who said they would kn-eel during the National Anthem after the k!lling of Flo-yd, Trump said he wouldn’t watch NBA games.’I really don’t think the basketball community is sad about losing his viewership, him viewing the game,’ James responded at the time. ‘And that’s all I got to say.’
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