Donald Trump has a message for Black Lives Matter activists after Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was forced off stage by the protesters affiliated with the movement.
“That will never happen with me,” says the Republican presidential candidate.
During a press conference Tuesday evening, Trump blasted Sanders for relinquishing his microphone and condemned the Vermont senator’s decision to exit the stage amid the protests.
“I would never give up my microphone, I thought that was disgusting,” Trump told reporters at the event in Birch Run, Mich. “That showed such weakness, the way he was taken away by two young women. They just took the whole place over.”
A video of two female activists aggressively interrupting Sanders during his recent campaign rally in Seattle has gone viral and drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle.
“I was going to tell Bernie how racist this city is — with all of its progressives — but you’ve already done that for me,” one of the female protestors can be heard yelling in the video before accusing the crowd of being “white supremacists.”
Trump said he “felt badly” for Sanders, but went on to call the Democratic hopeful “weak.”
“I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself, or if other people will, but that was a disgrace,” the real estate magnate said, adding that “[Sanders] is getting the biggest crowds, and I’m getting the biggest crowds.”
“We’re the two getting the crowds, but believe me, that’s not going to happen to Trump,” he said, referring to himself in third person.
