“CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King found a way to make President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration all about race, whining that there were too many white people at the swearing-in ceremony, a remark that drew harsh criticism.

During Monday’s network coverage of the peaceful transfer of power, King and fellow regime propagandist Norah O’Donnell were talking as political figures and dignitaries arrived at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda when King, as she often tends to do, inserted a divisive racial spin into the commentary.

“I do not see many people of color. Does anybody else besides me observe that?” King asked. “I’m fascinated by why that is?”

“I do not see many people of color,” CBS Mornings co-anchor Gayle King notes of the crowd attending President-elect Trump’s inauguration, which coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. https://t.co/qEPr9l5gC6 pic.twitter.com/cwM9gVFqxB

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 20, 2025

O’Donnell noted that this year’s inauguration happened to coincide with Martin Luther King Day and that one prominent black figure was in attendance, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, going on to explain to viewers that she was a DEI pick by outgoing President Joe Biden.

Conservative journalist and podcaster Megyn Kelly was among those who blasted King’s race-baiting.

Gayle King on cbs is questioning why there aren’t more “ppl of color” at the inauguration. Of course.

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 20, 2025

“There’s Gayle King over on CBS making it all about race,” she said. “You know what? Why don’t you take a look at your own party if you’re looking for absence of diversity.”

“See what happened to the working class because they fled your party… and they’re not coming back anytime soon you elitist snob who’s obsessed over people’s melanin,” she added. “Nobody in the Republican party thinks like that, and by the way, there were plenty of people of color. Both there and in the overflow room and over at the Capital arena and I saw them myself when I was there yesterday so get over yourself.”

King’s attempt to inject her race hustle into the historic occasion was also slammed by others on X.

Made the mistake of putting on CBS for inauguration. First thing I heard from Gayle King –

“I can’t help but notice there are not a lot of people of color in the crowd.”

The fact that this is the first thing you’re looking for is exactly why this guy is about to be inaugurated…

— Aidan Kearney (@DoctorTurtleboy) January 20, 2025

Someone tell Gayle, Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t want people to be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Has she learned nothing?

— Pattyls (@pattyls704) January 20, 2025

Hey @GayleKing. Watching your morning show (which very few do) what is the racial breakdown of your staff?

— Tony Bruno Show (@TonyBrunoShow) January 20, 2025

Only a racist would look for people based on their skin tone. Just saying

— Brother Redneck Rogue Elf, Whisperer (@TheRogue_Elf) January 20, 2025

Watching CBS – @GayleKing : Looking at this room I don’t see very many people of color”

SHUT UP!!!!! OMG

How many “people of color” elected legislators stayed home?

— Christy Kelly✨ (@Kelly4Humanity) January 20, 2025

Where’s Big Mike?

— J C Adams (@Grampsknos) January 20, 2025

Oh, you haven’t heard?

That bs is OVER. https://t.co/VNQFvgsdFQ

— john jackson (@pvtjokerus) January 20, 2025

It’s not that “people of color” were underrepresented at Trump’s inauguration, it’s that they were overrepresented in Biden’s administration which never passed up an opportunity to crow about it.

King apparently didn’t get the memo that it’s a new day in America and the country has turned the page on the institutionalized anti-white racism of the Obama-Biden era, the most divisive in the nation’s history.

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