Gregg Popovich has never been shy about revealing his views on politics and social issues. With the United States going under monumental changes as the new president takes over, Popovich has been even more vocal about his views.
Popovich was recently asked again about Donald Trump’s recent policies and cabinet nominations and he went off on the new president. There’s not much else for me to add; just read the comments courtesy of Gregg Doyel of the Indy Star:
“The situation now, I find a lot of people are in charge – or will be in charge shortly when they’re nominated – have very little clue about what many, many people have to go through to live in this world. Some days I feel like we’ve been invaded by another power and taken over (by people) who don’t feel the same. It’s a strange land.”
“We all hope that President Trump is successful. We hope he does some good things for everybody. But he didn’t start the presidency by mollifying any groups that he disparaged. He didn’t say anything (conciliatory toward) black people, or Mexican people, Hispanic people, LGBT people, handicapped people. Acted like it never happened.
“So that willingness to do whatever’s necessary to get elected, to say and act the way he did, I thought was unacceptable and really disgusting. So I said it. And I think that even people who voted for him can see that, but for some reason they feel they can afford to forget about it.
“(Trump’s) personality and his inability to get over himself and form his words and his decisions – that’s what scares me.”
Don’t suck to sports, Pop.
