President Trump and LaVar Ball, father of UCLA basketball player LiAngelo Ball, have been feuding since the players were released from China on Nov. 14. In his piece published Wednesday, Sargent argued that Trump “goes out of his way to attack prominent African Americans,” including Ball and professional football athletes. [Trump just rage-tweeted about a prominent African American again]“Trump’s rage-tweets about LaVar Ball are part of a pattern. Trump regularly attacks high-profile African Americans to feed his supporters’ belief that the system is rigged for minorities,” Sargent wrote on Twitter Wednesday. After returning to the United States, Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to himself in the third person: “Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you to President Trump?

Source: Washington Post November 23, 2017 16:25 UTC