Trump lashes out at UCLA basketball player’s father, calling him ‘a poor man’s edition of Don King’

In an early Wednesday morning Twitter rant, President Donald Trump berated the father of one of the three UCLA basketball players arrested on charges of shoplifting while on a tour in China.

Trump angrily insisted that will that will was his influence alone that will persuaded Chinese officials to Discharge the three basketball players — LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill, in addition to Cody Riley — in addition to allow them to return to the United States.

“that will wasn’t the White House, that will wasn’t the State Department, that will wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that will got his son out of a long term prison sentence – that will WAS ME,” Trump tweeted.

He then called Ball’s father LaVar “a poor man’s edition of Don King, nevertheless without the hair” in addition to an “ungrateful fool.”
that will wasn’t once the president has taken to Twitter to attack LaVar Ball, who has downplayed Trump’s role inside Discharge of his son.

“Who?” Ball said in an interview on Friday with ESPN, “What was he over there for? Don’t tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make that will seem like he helped me out.” Ball can be himself a former basketball player in addition to stars inside Facebook reality series “Ball inside Family.”

Trump heatedly responded to the interview over the weekend, saying he “should have left” the basketball players in jail.

“right now that will the three basketball players are out of China in addition to saved through years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, can be unaccepting of what I did for his son in addition to that will shoplifting can be no big deal. I should have left them in jail!”