'To His Core, In His Bones'

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'To His Core, In His Bones': John Legend Gets Blunt In Message For 'Racist' Trump

Ed Mazza

Updated Mon, April 22, 2024 at 8:09 AM CDT·2 min read

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• Musician John Legend put Donald Trump on blast on Sunday, calling out the former president as a racist and then offering some specific examples.

“He’s done very little for us and he is at his core, truly, truly a racist,” Legend told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.

Trump has claimed that he’s done more for Black Americans than “any other president since Abraham Lincoln and maybe including Abraham Lincoln,” and his supporters point to bipartisan criminal justice reform that Trump signed into law in 2018.

But Legend said Trump’s track record tells another story.

“He’s not been an ally,” Legend said. “At the same time he’s claiming credit for those small things, he’s also saying if people are stealing something they should get shot in the middle of the store. When we protested the killing of George Floyd, he advocated for the military to shoot us in the streets.”

During the unrest of 2020, Trump called protesters “thugs,” advocated that police shoot looters on sight, and suggested putting the military in charge of the response.

“He’s made it clear throughout his life that he believes Black people are inferior, like, he believes that to his core, in his bones. He wouldn’t let us live in his buildings back in the day,” he said, referring to a 1973 federal lawsuit that claimed Trump’s real estate company would not rent to Black tenants.

Legend also referred to Trump’s belief in “superior” genes and bloodlines.

“He clearly believes in a genetic hierarchy of humanity and it’s racially determined,” he said.

“So he is a tried-and-true, dyed-in-the-wool racist,” Legend ― who has achieved the rare feat of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards ― continued. “Like, in the core of his being, he’s a racist, so I don’t wanna hear what he has to say about what he’s done for Black people. He’s done for little for us. And he is, at his core, truly, truly a racist. You even hear what he says about immigration and what countries he wants people to come in from. They’re all very white.”

See more of his conversation with Psaki below:

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Legend then began to use the former president as an example of pre-trial freedoms that not all accused are so lucky to afford.

“You watch the life and times of Donald Trump, every trial that he’s a part of, you notice he’s not spending time in jail before he goes to trial, he’s innocent until he’s proven guilty, and we all know that, but what happens with folks who can’t afford bail; they have to languish in jail before their case,” Legend said.

“All kinds of negative things happen because they don’t have maybe $500 to buy their freedom. That’s not keeping us safer, that’s saying, ‘we have a separate system for people who are poor versus people who have the means to pay this cash bail.’”

Later in the interview, Psaki expresses her frustration over Trump and his campaign referring to himself as a victim of a two-tiered system of justice.

“He is getting way more confessions than the average criminal defendant would get, he’s getting delays, he’s got access to all kinds of lawyers that are filing this and filing that, delaying every trial. Most people don’t have access to that kind of lawyering,” Legend said response.

“He’s gotten away with a lot for a long time, he’s been a fraudster for a long time, he’s been cheating people for a long time, he’s been lying for a long time and he’s actually been litigating for a long time.

“So yes, there is a two-tiered justice system, but not in the way that he thinks. He’s the beneficiary, absolutely ... the fact that he’s out in the world, that’s not normal for a lot of people.”

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Legend added Trump was not an “ally” for his cause, claiming “he’s made it clear throughout his life that Black people are inferior, he believes that to his core, in his bones... but also when you hear some of the stray comments he makes, he clearly believes in a genetic hierarchy of humanity and is racially determined, so he is a tried and true, dyed-in-the-wool racist. In the core of his being, he’s a racist.

“So, I don’t want to hear what he says to say about what he’s done for Black people. He’s done very little for us and he is at his core, truly, truly a racist.”