Donald Trump Dragged Online Over Rant About Trans Athletes And LeBron James
During Donald Trump’s recent political rally
in Phoenix, Arizona, the ex-president bizarrely talked about how basketball player LeBron James could get sex reassignment surgery.
His strange comments came as he joked that, as the coach of a women’s sports team, he would only recruit transgender athletes: “If I were a coach, I wouldn’t be talking to too many women as we know women,” he said. “I’d be getting some of these people that … they’re ‘women’” Business Insider quotes.
From there, Trump then suggested that James might eventually choose to transition. “Somebody said that if LeBron James ever decided to get the operation, how would he be on the court? How would he be?” He went on to say, “LeBron James? you can have him,” Trump continued before further mocking the basketball player at the “Protect Our Elections” rally. “Did you see the basketball ratings that were terrible? They went up after his team was defeated.”
Trump says if he was coaching women’s sports, he would only recruit trans athletes, then speculates on Lebron James transitioning and playing women’s basketball. pic.twitter.com/Z7Wl0Vq3Fc
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 25, 2021
To note, James identifies as male and has never publicly expressed a desire to undergo gender confirmation surgery. He also has not reacted to Donald Trump’s latest comments yet.
Assume for the sake of discussion that LeBron transitioned into a woman; male or female, they’d still be a better human than Trump. https://t.co/GFkiVOVYpz
— The Wise Cripple (@MalkavianJamie) July 25, 2021
As many of us know, this isn’t the first time that the former president has taken aim at James. Back in April, Trump called him “racist” and “divisive” after the Los Angeles Lakers star tweeted a response to the police killing of Ohio teenager Ma’Khia Bryant in April.
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