Trump Cites Don King’s Support To Call Himself ‘The Least Racist Person’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, April 6, 2016, in Bethpage, N.Y. A devastating indictment of Donald Trump emerges from new AP-GfK poll. Americans overwhelming... Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, April 6, 2016, in Bethpage, N.Y. A devastating indictment of Donald Trump emerges from new AP-GfK poll. Americans overwhelmingly view him unfavorably.In every part of the country. Men and women, black, white, Hispanic. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) MORE LESS
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Donald Trump is “the least racist person,” at least in his own estimation.

Asked by Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher on Friday about the perception that he may harbor negative attitudes towards minorities and immigrants, Trump insisted that he would never display bias based on race or ethnicity.

“I am not a racist,” Trump said. “In fact, I am the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.”

The presumptive GOP nominee held up an edition of the black weekly owned by notorious boxing promoter Don King, Call & Post, announcing the magazine’s endorsement of him as proof of his support among black voters.

The legendarily flamboyant King has been dogged by one controversy or another throughout his decades-long association with the sweet science, including multiple legal disputes with boxers who claimed he cheated them.

“Isn’t that funny?” Trump said. “You know, Don endorsed me. You wanna take that back with you? You know, this could be a story, it just came out. He just delivered it to my office. But isn’t that funny? This is Don King. Now, Don King knows racism probably better than anybody. He’s not endorsing a racist, okay?”

King denied supporting Trump in an interview with the Daily News outside of Muhammad Ali’s funeral on Friday, saying he’s “endorsing the people.”

Pressed to reckon with whether his comments about the “Mexican” heritage of an Indiana-born federal judge, “criminal” undocumented immigrants and banning Muslims might inspire some people to question his attitudes towards race, Trump said he wasn’t worried.

“I’m not concerned,” he told the Post. “And actually, I’m not concerned because I don’t think people believe it.

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  1. Donald misspoke. He meant to say “least self-aware person”.

  2. “Oh, look at my OTHER African-American over here. Look at him,” Trump said. “Are you the greatest?”

    Trick question - it’s Ali.

  3. The legendarily flamboyant King has been dogged by one controversy or another throughout his decades-long association with the sweet science, including multiple legal disputes with boxers who claimed he cheated them.

    Gee, now who does that sound like? Don’t tell me, I’ll get it…

  4. Avatar for quax quax says:

    In other news, I have it on good authority, that Goebbels said that Hitler was not the least bit antisemitic.

  5. Trump said. “In fact, I am the least racist person…"

    Can this man ever utter a sentence without any freakin’ superlatives in it ?

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