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'To His Core, In His Bones': John Legend Gets Blunt In Message For 'Racist' Trump
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The singer/songwriter put the former president on blast for his long history of racism.
Musician John Legend put Donald Trump on blast on Sunday, calling out the former president as a racist and then offering some specific examples.
“He’s done very little for us and he is at his core, truly, truly a racist,” Legend told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.
Trump has claimed that he’s done more for Black Americans than “any other president since Abraham Lincoln and maybe including Abraham Lincoln,” and his supporters point to bipartisan criminal justice reform that Trump signed into law in 2018.
But Legend said Trump’s track record tells another story.
“He’s not been an ally,” Legend said. “At the same time he’s claiming credit for those small things, he’s also saying if people are stealing something they should get shot in the middle of the store. When we protested the killing of George Floyd he advocated for the military to shoot us in the streets.”