John Legend is clearly not a fan of Donald Trump, and let his opinion be known when he responded to a tweet by the candidate’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
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In his tweet, the Trump scion joked about protesters at his father’s cancelled Chicago rally allegedly not knowing why they were protesting The Donald.
Ha 5 students when asked why they were protesting couldn’t even answer. The participation medal/micro aggression generation is pretty sad!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 12, 2016
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsJohn Legend, however, saw that tweet and offered his theory:
.@DonaldJTrumpJr I think they were protesting your racist father. This isn’t complicated. — John Legend (@johnlegend) March 12, 2016
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When a Trump supporter slammed Legend, implying he was uneducated, the “All of Me”; singer revealed that he and the Trump kids had actually attended the same university.
.@DanielT03571138 @DonaldJTrumpJr the Donalds and I graduated from the same University, funny enough.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) March 12, 2016
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsLegend followed that up with a sarcastic tweet addressed to “Trump trolls,”; quipping, “I’m the real racist”; while linking to a Daily Beast piece alleging that, in his early days as a slumlord in the 1970s, Trump was accused of using a secret code on rental applications in order to prevent African-Americans from renting in any Trump-owned buildings.
Yes, Trump trolls. I’m the real racist. https://t.co/xzgMsEPeh4 — John Legend (@johnlegend) March 12, 2016
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Donald Trump Jr. responded: “Here we go again. That can’t be the answer for everything you don’t like. That’s why the country is so divided now!”;
Here we go again. That can’t be the answer for everything you don’t like. That’s why the country is so divided now! https://t.co/BFh3XNsl7F
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 12, 2016
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsAs you’d expect, Legend had a biting response to that as well:
@DonaldJTrumpJr no. It’s just the answer when racist racists are saying racist shit and are endorsed by the KKK.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) March 12, 2016
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