Al Sharpton has a reputation as a civil rights leader among his supporters and as a race-baiting charlatan among his critics, but there’s no debate when it comes to his disdain for President Donald Trump.
He recently announced a demonstration being organized near Trump’s inauguration next month, which happens to be on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Even in his announcement, Sharpton couldn’t resist taking a cheap shot at Trump, as Newsmax pointed out:
But Sharpton was quickly critical about the color of Trump’s Cabinet members’ skin in November.
“In the two weeks since Donald Trump was elected to a second term, he has put forth a dozen troubling nominees, yet the most alarming factor in his proposed Cabinet is that not a single candidate is Black,” Sharpton said then. “Trump spent this campaign selling himself to Black voters, especially men, by peddling sneakers and implying his criminal convictions would resonate with our community.”
Days after Sharpton’s statement, though, Trump announced former NFL player Scott Turner to be his secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Turner was executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council in the first Trump administration.
Also, Kash Patel, an Indian-American was announced