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Trump Does Nothing, Says Nothing to Honor Dr. King on MLK Day
Sherrilyn Ifill is President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. On January 20, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President Ifill appeared on MSNBC to discuss the meaning and significance of MLK Day with host Andrea Mitchell.
Mitchell asked President Ifill to respond to presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway’s earlier remarks as to what Donald Trump was doing to commemorate the holiday. So sayeth Ms. Conway:
He’s preparing for Davos; and agrees with many of the things that Dr. Martin Luther King stood for and agreed with for many years, including unity.
President Ifill was having none of Conway’s patented word salad. She responded to Conway with,
What an embarrassingly incompetent answer. There’s is no answer that she can give that would be acceptable because he’s doing nothing to commemorate MLK Day, and frankly, it would be hypocritical if he tried to do that.
President Ifill was just warming up, though:
Just in the last week, the tweets that he’s put up, knowing that [the pro-gun rally in Virginia] was coming today, knowing that the governor of Virginia had declared a state of emergency today because of credible threats of violence given what happened in 2017 in Charlottesville.
