John Legend: ‘To His Core,’ Trump ‘Believes Blacks Are Inferior’

PSAKI: “One of the things that you hear from Trump supporters is that he signed the First Step Act in 2018, he is a partner in this effort. What do you say to people who say, ‘He would be an ally, look what he did in 2018?’”
LEGEND: “He has not been an ally. I mean, I think the First Step Act was fine. It was a very kind of small reform. And to be honest, most of the reform we needed is on the local and state level, because most incarceration is local and state, and most of the laws that end up being criminally enforced are local and state laws. That being said, at the same he’s claiming credit for those small things, he is also saying, you know, if people are stealing something, they should get shot in the middle of the store. When we protested the killing of George Floyd, he was advocating for the military to shoot us in the streets. He has made it clear throughout his life that he believes black people are inferior. Like, he believes that, to his core, in his bones. He would not let us live in his buildings back in the day. But also, when you hear some of the stray comments he makes, he clearly believes in a genetic hierarchy of humanity and it’s racially determined. So he is a tried and true, dyed-in-the-wool racist. In the core of his being, he is a racist. So I don’t want to hear what he has to say about what he’s done for black people. He’s done very little for us, and he is, at his core, truly, truly a racist. And you even hear what he says about immigration and which countries he wants people to come in from, they are all very white.”