“What are we even talking about here??” NBA star LeBron James wrote in posts to his 53 million followers on social media web site X and his 159 million followers on Instagram. “After I take into consideration my children and my household and the way they’ll develop up, the selection is obvious to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!”
His put up included a strong video that places collectively Trump’s historical past of racist statements—beginning together with his current Madison Sq. Backyard rally—with historic photographs of state-sanctioned racism in the USA. The video ends with a title card that reads, “Hate takes us again.”
James is simply the newest NBA legend to talk out publicly in opposition to the abject racism Trump represents. Earlier within the week, Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers issued an analogous sentiment. San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich referred to as Trump a “small,” “pathetic,” and “broken man.”
Steve Kerr, head coach for the Golden State Warriors and the USA males’s Olympic-gold profitable basketball group, spoke out in opposition to Trump on the Democratic Nationwide Conference this summer time.
James has made his emotions about Trump clear earlier than Thursday’s endorsement of Harris. Again in 2017, James referred to as Trump a “bum,” after the then-president tried to withdraw an invite to NBA Warriors’ all-star Stephen Curry, who had already introduced he would skip out on a White Home go to, after Golden State had gained the championship.
