Actress and liberal activist Alyssa Milano said she was “so sad” Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker lauded President Trump during the first night of the Republican National Convention.
“As a sports fan I’m so sad to see @HerschelWalker say that Trump is a champion of social justice #TrumpChaos #LiarInChief #RNCConvention,” she tweeted Monday.
As a sports fan I’m so sad to see @HerschelWalker say that Trump is a champion of social justice. #TrumpChaos #LiarInChief #RNCConvention
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) August 25, 2020
Milano was responding to the former NFL player reflecting on his decadeslong relationship with the president and denouncing critics who call Trump a “racist.”
“It hurt my soul to hear the terrible names that people called Donald,” Walker said during his remarks at the Republican convention on Monday evening. “The worst one is racist. I take it as a personal insult that people would think I’ve had a 37-year friendship with a racist. People that think that don’t know what they’re talking about. Growing up in the Deep South, I’ve seen racism up close. I know what it is. And it isn’t Donald Trump.”
“Right after he bought the team, he set out to learn,” he said of Trump, who bought the New Jersey Generals, a United States Football League team. “He learned about the history of the team, the players, the coaches — every detail. Then, he used what he learned to make the team better. I watched him in the boardroom. He can be in the middle of a big meeting, but if one of the kids was on the phone, he dropped everything to take the call. He taught me that the family should be your top priority. I watched him treat janitors, security guards, and waiters the same way he would treat a VIP. He made them feel special because he knew they were.”
Walker has been a staunch supporter of the president and said during his speech that he’s “blessed to call him friend.”
“Some people don’t like his style, the way he knocks down obstacles that get in the way of his goals,” he concluded. “People on the opposing team didn’t like when I ran over them either, but that’s how you get the job done. I pray every night that God gives him more time. Give him four more years. He has accomplished so much almost all by himself under constant attack, but there’s still more work to be done. If you love America and want to make it better, Donald Trump is your president. He’s my president, and I’m blessed to call him friend.”
Last week, Walker criticized the Democratic National Convention for “playing the race card way too much.”
“Wow Democratic Convention, you’re playing the race card way too much tonight! You all have been in office for years and have done nothing for African Americans. Every four years you do this for a vote. And the violence and death in our communities, yet you say nothing?” he tweeted on the final night of the Democratic convention.
Walker has also been vocal in denouncing the Black Lives Matter movement for inflaming racial tensions in the country.
“I was watching some kids, African American and Caucasian kids, playing the other day, and I started thinking about their future,” Walker said in a video on Twitter in July. “And then, I listened to a BLM protester, who was speaking for the black people, and I said, ‘Wait a minute … He don’t speak for me. He don’t speak for a lot of other people that I know.'”
