Warriors coach Steve Kerr talks President Trump, White House visit
Brilliant State Warriors head mentor Steve Kerr showed up on CNN's The Ax Files, which broadcast Saturday night, to reveal insight into the thinking behind his group's want to not visit the White House in February to commend their NBA title — a custom with many years of history.
"We see what President Trump does with his words, with his activities, and it's hard to accommodate that and simply say we'll set regardless of that," Kerr said. "He can ridicule disable individuals. He can state a great deal of terrible things, monstrous things, regardless of whether it's about ladies, whomever. There can be a great deal of things that happen that are recently truly hard to simply say, 'Okay, we'll set that aside and go visit and shake his hand.' It doesn't feel right."
Trump tweeted in September that his White House welcome to the Warriors and star Stephen Curry had been "pulled back," a day after Curry, among different players, influenced it to clear that they would not like to go to.
"Rather than binding together and attempting to quiet the tempest, [President Trump] is making it." NBA mentor Steve Kerr examines games and legislative issues with CNN's David Axelrod. The Ax Files show today around evening time at 7 p.m. ET. https://t.co/CjNL8BPvJbpic.twitter.com/iO5MLqK4Id
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Kerr, who in May alluded to Trump as an "egotist" who's "illsuited" for office, told CNN, "Rather than binding together and endeavoring to quiet the tempest, (Trump is) making it, again and again. We see it with his tweets each day."
Kerr additionally indicated Trump's September rally in Alabama — where he alluded to NFL players who gently dissent the national song of praise as "children of (interjection)" — as a motivation behind why he and his group have an "intense time" with the President.
"He utilized the words 'children of (exclamation)' to discuss NFL players who have influenced it to clear they're dissenting racial imbalance and police ruthlessness," Kerr said. "Those are children of (exclamation)? Truly? You're the President of the United States and you will call them children of (interjection)? Furthermore, you will call (Colin) Kaepernick out for peaceful challenges, a staple of American vote based system? That is truly difficult to manage.
"For me, that was most likely the hardest one to manage. The individual insults that we've seen from Trump, you kind of get accustomed to it before long, you get numb to it. Be that as it may, that one truly stung, on the grounds that it was so disruptive, and it was so irate, and it simply didn't bode well."