Barack Obama on Sunday despatched out a message to Black and Latino voters and laid out GOP presidential contender Donald Trump’s racist file.
Addressing a crowd at Kamala Harris marketing campaign rally in Wisconsin on Sunday, Obama chastised Trump for questioning if he’s extra Greek than NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Calling Antetokounmpo a “significantly good participant”, Trump requested the Milwaukee crowd, “Tell me, who has extra Greek in him, the Greek or me?”
The crowd appeared to freeze over Trump’s comment, with the ex-president rapidly including, “I believe we now have about the identical, proper?”
As there was no response from the viewers, he mentioned, “Maybe he’s the most effective participant within the NBA.”
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Obama lists Trump’s ‘demeaning and degrading’ feedback
Obama cautioned Milwaukee crowd in opposition to casting their votes for somebody who would not care about them and would not even perceive {that a} Greek individual could also be black.
He additional informed them that the reply to their worries was not Trump. “Why would you suppose the reply is to vote for somebody who has an extended historical past of demeaning and disregarding your communities?” he puzzled.
“Who can’t apparently perceive how NBA famous person might be each Greek and Black? Who means that any Mexican crossing the border is a legal and a rapist. Who spreads ridiculous fantasies that Haitians eat folks’s pets?” Obama acknowledged.
Recalling few weird moments throughout Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, he denounced the GOP contender over his supporters feedback about Puerto Rico being an island of rubbish and Black folks consuming watermelon. “Do you suppose that’s any individual whose going to look out for you?” he requested.
Addressing Muslim and Jewish Americans, Obama questioned why they’d again an individual who sat down for “pleasantries with Holocaust deniers” and enacted a “so-called Muslim Ban.”
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Know about Giannis Antetokounmpo
In the US and Greece, Trump’s remark provoked a contentious dialogue concerning the aim of his unusual statements.
Notably, Trump has no connection to Greece. Antetokounmpo, then again, is a Greek citizen and proudly performs for Greece’s nationwide basketball crew. He speaks Greek proficiently as he was raised in Greece, and proudly performs for the Greek nationwide basketball crew.
The sole distinction is Antetokounmpo’s Nigerian ancestry, having been the son of two Nigerian immigrants who shifted to Athens a few years in the past.