NBA Superstar Double Down Over Attack On Trump Supporters

Charles Barkley, a former NBA player, expressed on CNN’s “King Charles” that individuals of African descent who choose to wear merchandise featuring the mugshot of former President Donald Trump are behaving foolishly.

Co-host Gayle King said:

“I don’t know if you know, normally, you know, we’re sitting here and we don’t make the news, but this past week, Charles, I don’t know if you know but you’ve been in the news for some comments you made on our last show.”

Barkley had previously said:

“If I see a black person walking around with Trump mug shot I’m going to punch him in the face.”

Barkley said:

“Number one, obviously, I’m not gonna go around punching random strangers in the face – first and foremost.

“Secondly, people can vote for who they want to.

“People can vote for who they want to.

“The point I was trying to make, no, the point I was making, I wasn’t trying to make it – when Donald Trump compares his plight with that of the black person, that is what I had a problem with.”

He continued:

“Now, I do wanna say this. I want to make it perfectly clear:

“If you’re a black person and you wearing a Donald Trump mugshot, you are a freaking idiot.

“And I’m only saying freakin’ idiot because they won’t let me say what I really wanna say.

“But you can figure it out. It starts with an F.”

Barkley added, “I’ll stick by what I said.

“If you’re wearing a Trump mugshot around, you are a freakin’ idiot.”

King said, “But you aren’t gonna go just randomly attacking people in the street.

“That’s the only point I wanted to make.”

Barkley said, “Unless they had Trump sneakers on too.”