Former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight continued to lavish praise on Donald Trump Thursday, arguing that he would have the “guts to drop the bomb” like former President Harry Truman did in 1945.
Knight made the remark when he interrupted Trump during his event in Evansville after the GOP front-runner started to talk about people wanting him to act “more presidential,” which Trump has railed against over the past week.
“We got to talk about this presidential crap just for a moment here,” Knight said. “I’ll tell you who they said wasn’t presidential. I don’t even know what the hell presidential means, but they told him that he wasn’t presidential. And that guy they told all these people that wanted to say, ‘You’re not presidential,’ that guy was Harry Truman.”
“And Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944 saved, saved millions of American lives,” Knight said. “And that’s what Harry Truman did. And he became one of the three great presidents of the United States. And here’s a man who would do the same thing, because he’s going to become one of the four great presidents of the United States.”
After cheers from the crowd, Knight exited the stage and turned the microphone back over to Trump, who spoke for another 12 minutes before finishing the event.
“Such a great guy. Wow. How do you top that? How do you top that? What a great guy. You should be very proud of him in Indiana,” Trump told the crowd. “That is a national treasure, OK?”
