Rapper Pusha T likened Trump supporters to the Ku Klux Klan in an interview last week.
The 41-year-old rapper, whose main claim to fame is the McDonalds “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle, is no fan of President Trump — or America, for that matter.
“The make America great again hat is this generation’s Ku Klux hood,” Pusha T told the Guardian. “When was America so great anyways? Name that time period?”
When his friend and fellow rapper Kanye West proudly donned his signed MAGA hat in public after making pro-Trump comments in April, Pusha T said he met with him to confront him.
“We spoke about insensitivity,” he said. “The actual messaging. Where I felt he went wrong. You can’t even paraphrase about situations and issues that are so personal to people.”
Perhaps Pusha T should reflect on his own insensitivity after stereotyping millennial Trump supporters as racists and bigots. Since most of Pusha T’s fans are millennials, we can assume this is the generation he is targeting. He is clearly trying to shame our generation for having the audacity to support Trump by turning it into a racial issue.
Race-baiting comments like this only serve to cause more violence and incivility at a time when leftist activists have boldly called for crowds to harass Trump administration officials. Just as antifa activists label conservatives as “fascists” to justify their violent tactics against them, Pusha T is effectively demonizing conservatives with his severely misguided comments.
By equating Trump supporters to violent KKK members, Pusha T is stirring the leftist mob against anyone who supports the president. West directly addressed this mob mentality after he vocalized his support for Trump on Twitter.
“You don’t have to agree with Trump but the mob can’t make me not love him. We are both dragon energy,” he tweeted in April. “He is my brother.”
West later told the New York Times that he was “castrated” by critics for voicing his political views.
Despite Pusha T’s and other celebrities’ disdain for Trump and his base, many millennials are souring on Democrats. According to a Reuters poll of registered millennial voters, support for Democrats dropped by about nine points to 46 percent in April.
