Jesse Jackson was largely centered on himself. Experts break down why the president’s tribute to the late civil rights icon was not only “disrespectful,” but hypocritical. The Trump administration’s ‘whitewashing’ of America is the ‘antithesis’ of what Jackson stood for, one expert says. Trump using Jackson’s death to attack his critics was ‘disrespectful,’ but predictable, Harper says. Advertisement“While the nation and world are mourning Jesse Jackson, Trump exploited the occasion of his death to advance his obsessive attack on the Obamas and defecate on everything Jackson stood for,” she said.

Source: Huffington Post February 19, 2026 08:09 UTC