Trump Can’t Think Of Any Muslim-American Sports Heroes

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2011 file photo, Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. It’s the weird issue that won’t go away, and it’s forcing GOP presidential co... FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2011 file photo, Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. It’s the weird issue that won’t go away, and it’s forcing GOP presidential contenders and other Republican leaders to pick sides: do they think President Obama was born outside the United States and is therefore disqualified to be president? Polls show that a remarkable two-thirds of all Republican voters either think Obama was born abroad or they aren’t sure. With Donald Trump stirring the pot, other potential candidates are distancing themselves from his comments to varying degrees. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) MORE LESS
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested late Sunday that President Barack Obama was “profiling” by pointing out that Muslim Americans have had distinguished athletic careers during his speech about combatting terrorism and Islamophobia in the US.

Towards the end of a lengthy adress about counter-terror strategies, Obama reminded Americans that making negative generalizations about Muslims plays into the hands of terrorist groups like the Islamic State.

“Muslim Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co-workers, our sports heroes—and, yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country,” Obama said in his Oval Office speech. “We have to remember that.”

Trump cast doubt on Obama’s suggestion, asking his Twitter followers to name Muslims who have excelled as athletes. Many quickly responded with some of the most iconic examples, including former Lakers basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, retired NBA icon Shaquille O’Neil and 2011 first-round NFL draft pick Muhammad Wilkerson. As Gawker noted, Trump himself won the 2007 Muhammad Ali Entrepreneur Award and met the former heavyweight boxing champion and follower of Sufi Islam at the event.

Mother Jones reported that Trump is also close friends with Mike Tyson, the former boxer and convert to Islam, and tried to help prevent him from being imprisoned for a 1992 rape conviction.

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  1. Trump floats like a buffoon a stings like a butthead.

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Trump himself won the 2007 Muhammad Ali Entrepreneur Award

    His douchebag runneth over…

  3. Avatar for chammy chammy says:

    Fuck Donald Trump. I am sick to death of this worthless piece of slime

  4. Well, no wonder Teabaggers are not upset by racial profiling. They don’t know what it is!

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