The first Martin Luther King Jr. holiday of Donald Trump's presidency is taking place amid a racial firestorm of Trump's own making. Trump has denied being racist, labeling himself the "least racist person there is" during his 2016 campaign. By week's end, Trump was signing a King holiday proclamation with the martyred activist's nephew at his side. "This is what I would like President Trump to do: Don't let the King Holiday find you using your Twitter account in an inappropriate way," Bernice King told The Associated Press in an interview. In June, he said Nigerian immigrants would "never go back to their huts" after coming to the U.S.King's son, Martin Luther King III, met with Trump on the last King holiday, four days before Trump took office.

Source: ABC News January 14, 2018 00:56 UTC