Al Sharpton bizarrely likens Trumps White House UFC event to fights for the slave masters

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.”“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.“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 things he did was hang a picture of President Andrew Jackson,” Sharpton said.Sharpton noted Jackson’s history as a slave owner and his role in elevating Roger Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision.“Andrew Jackson was a slave-owning president who nominated Judge Roger Taney to the Supreme Court,” Sharpton said.

“Taney became the chief justice that saw the Dred Scott decision passed.”Sharpton questioned why Trump’s decision to prominently display Jackson was not scrutinized more at the time.“Why di...