Lebron James on the assault on the Federal Capitol: “Trump doesn’t care about this country or his family”

Los Angeles – Lebron James and his Lakers teammates were already upset after a Wisconsin prosecutor decided Tuesday not to charge a police officer who shot at a black man last year.

Then came Wednesday when a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol to delay Congress from certifying the results of the November election.

What James saw on television along with his family continued to reinforce his vision of the broad division in the country.

“We live in two Americas and a great example of that was yesterday. If you don’t understand or don’t see this, you have to take a step back. Not just one step, but four or five or even ten steps back. “James said Thursday night after Los Angeles lost to the San Antonio Spurs 118-109.

“How do you want your children or grandchildren to live in this beautiful country? It wasn’t like that yesterday. I couldn’t help but wonder if these were the ones in my class who stormed the Capitol, what would have been the result.” We all know what would have happened if someone had approached, much less if he had entered by force, “he added.

James wore a T-shirt as he entered the Staples Center before the game that said “Do you understand now?” He also had it written on his slippers during the game. Players and coaches from both teams hugged in a circle in the middle of the court during the national anthem.

When asked what he meant by his shirt, James expressed that he wants people to understand what athletes and blacks say.

“You’ll never understand the feeling of being a black man and woman in the United States,” assured James.

“Do you understand how difficult it is to keep inspiring and giving everything we have? We all get on the bandwagon of what we offer, what we carry. How we dress, our music, our culture, our food. Everyone steals from what we do. and then they want to act like we did or brought him into this world. We don’t get our due diligence or anything back in their country except a slap in the face. “

Tuesday’s decision by a prosecutor in Kenosha, Wisconsin, not to file charges against the officer who shot Jacob Blake sparked anger throughout the NBA.. The Blake incident was one of many social issues that players focused on last summer when the game resumed in the bubble in Orlando, Florida.

James has been a critic of Trump during his four years in office and said what happened at the U.S. Capitol was a direct correlation of what the president represents.

“He doesn’t care about this country or his family. We saw the tweets all the way to this destruction. For the last four years we all knew that,” comment. “One thing that can never be recovered is time. We’ve literally (thrown) in the trash four years.”

“Yesterday was embarrassing. We’re supposed to be setting an example to all the other countries on how to make things work and change the world and yesterday we looked like a third, fourth, fifth world country. It was committed.” has expressed.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who has also not shied away from expressing his views on President Trump, said he believed the president enjoyed Wednesday’s insurgency.

“I believe with all my heart that Trump enjoyed it,” Popovich said 90 minutes before the start. “They talked about the police and how easy it was, they took out the barriers and went straight in. That doesn’t happen unless there’s a gesture of complicity and a gesture of complicity somewhere. That just doesn’t happen. happened in no protest in which anyone has been. That’s why I don’t think it’s so outlandish that people start talking about the 25th amendment. We know it probably won’t happen, “he opined.

Popovich also took the time to praise James, calling him an “iconic figure.”

“As a human being and citizen and someone who looks at the social problems of our time, he doesn’t do it with hatred. He’s just telling the truth,” Popovich said of James.