First Lady Melania Trump’s spokesperson graciously commended LeBron James for opening a school in his home state of Ohio amid uproar over the NBA star’s feud with President Donald Trump.
“It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the First Lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today,” Melania’s rep Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.
The brouhaha erupted after CNN host Don Lemon goaded LeBron into slamming President Trump in a recent interview.
James fell for the bait and accused Trump of using sports “to divide us” (video below).
“What I’ve noticed over the last few months is that he’s kind of used sports to kind of divide us,” LeBron said, presumably referring to Trump’s insistence that NFL players respect the American flag and stand for the national anthem.
President Trump never lets an unprovoked personal attack go unanswered, so he responded by calling Lemon the “dumbest man on television” and suggested that Don’s epic stupidity made LeBron look smart by comparison.
Predictably, liberals immediately race-baited and accused Trump of making a racial diss despite the fact that he never mentioned race in his tweet. He was lashing out after being attacked.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1025586524782559232
As BizPac Review previously reported, LeBron initiated his feud with Trump in 2017 by calling him a “bum.”
LeBron James gets involved in war against Trump as athletes get their crybaby on https://t.co/5Vsuv3rSm1 pic.twitter.com/S4iUmPDuvx
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) September 23, 2017
Don Lemon was triggered by Trump’s comments and clapped back.
“Who’s the real dummy?’ Lemon tweeted. “A man who puts kids in classrooms or one who puts kids in cages?”
Who’s the real dummy? A man who puts kids in classrooms or one who puts kids in cages? #BeBest https://t.co/XO50qVksnR
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) August 4, 2018
Reality check for Don: Your hero Barack Obama put illegal immigrant kids in cages.
Remember that it was the Don Lemons of the world that covered up for Obama when he built those cages and kept 75,000 kids in them. He hid the story. https://t.co/K9sNX99gdD
— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) August 4, 2018
Lemon’s CNN colleague Jake Tapper leaped to his defense with some statistics.
Q poll on POTUS, June:
69 – 27 % say he is not a good role model for children;
56 – 41 % say he does not have good leadership skills;
64 – 32 % say he is not level-headed;
61 – 35 % say he does not share their values.https://t.co/tdDwUAnLmy https://t.co/n6MK4DHNv3— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 4, 2018
Vice president Mike Pence dropped the mother-of-all statistics to silence leftist anti-Trumpers: 3.8 million jobs created since November 2016. Boom.
STRONG economic report out this morning: 157,000 new jobs created last month → over 3.8 MILLION since Election Day 2016! Unemployment dropped to 3.9%. @POTUS Trump’s agenda is working for the American people. pic.twitter.com/mdr00yzlL7
— Vice President Mike Pence Archived (@VP45) August 3, 2018
The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra clapped back at Lemon by pointing out that “CNN’s Don Lemon was literally named by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the worst journalists in media.”
CNN's Don Lemon was literally named by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the worst journalists in media:https://t.co/cHwzNMJMXv https://t.co/bw4N8Zkbhx
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 4, 2018
Amid the uproar, Michael Jordan issued a brief statement praising James: “I support LJ. He’s doing an amazing job for his community.”
While liberals on Twitter gleefully claimed Jordan had slammed President Trump with his statement, he did no such thing. He merely praised LeBron for helping poor children in his home state of Ohio.
After all, charity begins at home. Ironically, the liberal media aren’t trashing LeBron for supporting his own community instead of using his millions to help illegal aliens.
Naturally, grievance-mongering leftists like CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill trashed Michael Jordan for not attacking Trump.
This is SUCH a Michael Jordan quote. And exactly why many of us will never respect him off the court. https://t.co/ZdtF9yBFXi
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 4, 2018
But MJ isn’t “damned if he do.” The point is that he never DOES. How much would it take to say “I disagree with President Trump’s comment”? Jordan has never taken a position that will upset anyone, which is exactly why Trump prefers him. https://t.co/GYNTfelc89
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 4, 2018
LeBron James did an admirable thing by helping the underprivileged community in his hometown of Ohio.
While he has slammed President Trump for being divisive, keep in mind that in 2017, LeBron called the 63 million Americans who voted for President Trump “uneducated.”
Pssst Kettle…It’s Pot!
https://twitter.com/steveavonloor/status/1025940783843688449
LeBron sure knows how to pick winners.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/911710620692697090
Don Lemon’s CNN career highlights.
CNN's Don Lemon To Cosby Rape Accuser in 2014: "You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it…[like] using of the teeth…" pic.twitter.com/44cpqdUqTe
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 4, 2018
Don Lemon stars in, “Drunk at Work.” pic.twitter.com/CZ9TK9orc9
— Andrew (@jupin) January 1, 2018
Drunk Don Lemon lectures America. What a loser! pic.twitter.com/M0zOMjEwBf
— Captain Deplorable (@captdeplorable) August 23, 2017
No NYE broadcast will ever top the time Don Lemon got drunk and had his ear pierced live on CNN. pic.twitter.com/TXBt9hU61Q
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) January 1, 2018
Reality check.
This is rich.
Your husband locked up more black men than any President in the history of the United States.
You view Margaret Sanger (who wanted to exterminate the black race) as your idol and Robert Byrd (former Klansmen) as your mentor and dear friend.Shut up, racist. https://t.co/qXAAtvP2kU
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 4, 2018
"What I've noticed over the last few months that [@realDonaldTrump] kinda used sport to kinda divide us, and that's something that I can't relate to."
–LeBron James @KingJamesTRUMP is using sports to divide us?!? When did Trump take a knee during the national anthem? pic.twitter.com/XJTmDniqJe
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) August 4, 2018
Trump stops motorcade to personally thank firefighters in touching viral video
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