*Charles Barkley has threatened to physically assault any Black Trump supporters that he catches wearing or displaying Trump’s mugshot in public.
When Trump addressed a crowd in Columbia, South Carolina, recently, he suggested that his mugshot and legal trouble with the government appeals to Black voters, Fox News reports.
“You know who embraced more than anybody else? The Black population,” Trump told the crowd. “It’s incredible. You see Black people walking around with my mugshot – you know they do shirts.”
Barkley responded to Trump’s remarks during a conversation with his “King Charles” co-host Gayle King.
“First of all, I’m just gonna say this,” he stated. “If I see a Black person walking around with a Trump mugshot, I’m gonna punch him in the face.”
When King noted that Barkley would be arrested for assault, he said, “I’m gonna bail myself out and go celebrate.”
“First of all, if I was at that [conference], I would’ve got up and walked out,” Barkley continued. “That was an insult to all Black people. To compare Black history, where we’ve been discriminated against, to his plight.”
Barkley added, “It’s not a fair comparison,” he said of Trump comparing himself to Black people after being arrested and indicted.
“He’s a billionaire, he’s had a great life, he’s been President of the United States. To insult Black people who have been discriminated against all these years and put them in the same category, I was just offended,” Barkley continued.
We reported earlier, per Alternet.com, that The ReidOut Blog writer Ja’han Jones noted in an August 28, 2023 report: “Following [ex-President Donald] Trump’s arrest in Georgia on charges related to his efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election, conservative media figures have trotted out a particularly desperate line: that Trump is going to win over more Black voters than previously thought because he’s been arrested.”
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