'I don't know John Lewis': Trump bashes deceased civil rights leader for skipping his inauguration

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As three former presidents gathered in Atlanta last week to offer stirring tributes to John Lewis, President Trump was absent. In an interview that aired Monday night, Trump had few kind words of his own for the former Democratic congressman and civil rights leader, who died July 17.

Asked by interviewer Jonathan Swan how history would remember Lewis’s contributions to the nation, Trump demurred.

“I don’t know. I don’t know John Lewis,” Trump said in the “Axios on HBO” interview. “He chose not to come to my inauguration.”

Pressed by Swan on whether he found Lewis “impressive,” Trump was likewise noncommittal.

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Awww did you get your feewings hurt?

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Aww he didn't come to my party so I'm butt hurt.

What a huge baby.

[MoonRiver]

6. Emphasis on huge lol!

[Siwsan]

2. The bar for trump*'s behavior is now seriously subterranean.

Somewhere near the vicinity of where hell would exist.

[Afromania]

3. But he wishes the lady kid raper "he doesn't know" well

Yea ok buddy... I see you.

[Caliman73]

4. While a good line of questioning to show how petty Trump is, it's better he didn't go.

Trump is a disgrace. He has debased the office of the presidency. It would have been a dishonor for him to go to Lewis' funeral and his presence would not have carried the importance that the presence of Presidents Obama, Clinton, and even Bush Jr. did. The three former Presidents have at least, conducted themselves in a way that has been at worst, neutral while Presidents Obama and Clinton have been outstanding former Presidents. Trump will likely never be invited to State functions as a former president. He is an embarrassment.

That simple phrase, "I don't know John Lewis" says it all. EVERYONE knows John Lewis, anyone who has even a modicum of understanding of the struggle for Civil Rights in this country, has heard of John Lewis. EVERYONE in any national political office should know John Lewis. It was just another lie and petty grievance from a broken husk of a man.

[gratuitous]

5. Trump also tried to run his standard "I've done more for Black people" line

Swan was having none of it, but I would have liked to see Trump challenged: If you've done so much for Black people, why didn't any of them want you at any of the memorial services for John Lewis? Is it your position that every Black person in the country is just flat-out ignorant of all you've done for them, or are you lying like a cheap rug?

[Boomerproud]

7. Trump likes people who didn't get their skull fractured

while trying to win the right to vote.