Rev.Al Sharpton accused President Donald Trump and Republicans of trying to return the country to a more racist era during a Thursday appearance on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," tying the dispute over redistricting to Trump's planned UFC event on the White House lawn and his admiration for Andrew Jackson."Trump and others are trying to bring us back to an America that we struggled to get out of," Sharpton said.Sharpton argued that Trump’s embrace of a White House UFC event was connected to the same politics behind the redistricting fight."So there is a connection of why they’re having these fights on the White House lawn," Sharpton said.
"UFC and all that, because they’re trying to go back to that when, you know, they watched people have these fights for the slave masters, and they’d be entertained by that."Al Sharpton argued on MS NOW that President Donald Trump’s political agenda reflects an effort to return the country to an earlier era of American history.(Michael M.
Santiago/Getty Images)AL SHARPTON SAYS AMERICA'S 250TH ANNIVERSARY IS NOT A 'CELEBRATION' FOR BLACK PEOPLE, CALLS IT 'CRAZY'"They’re literally going back to that."Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski connected Sharpton's comments to immigration enforcement under the Trump administration."Look at these raids," Brzezinski said."It’s playing out on America’s streets."Sharpton also pointed to Trump’s Oval Office decor during his first term as evidence of what he described as the president’s political vision.During a Morning Joe appearance, Al Sharpton linked the fight over redistricting and Trump’s planned White House UFC event to broader concerns about the nation’s direction.
(Michael M.Santiago/Getty Images)MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR CLAIMS 'DARK' TRUMP SUPPORTERS ENJOY WATCHING ICE ACT LIKE 'SLAVE CATCHERS'"Let’s not forget, one of the things that I think slips a lot of people, when Donald Trump first was elected in 2016, Mika, in 2017, when he went in the Oval Office, one of the first ...