In a recently released statement, Muhammad Ali has gone public with his dismissal of Donald Trump and all he stands for?
I am sick and tired of Donald Trump. But that?s nothing new. I was sick and tired of Donald Trump 30 years ago. But now that he?s running for President, he?s grown even more sickening and tiresome than ever.
Granted, I?m not afraid. (The boogieman isn?t going to get me.) Nor do I feel emasculated. And while his demagoguery is as toxic as ever, it has been simmering beneath the surface of American politics for a very long time.
Trump has been called a sideshow, but a sideshow of a sideshow is more like it. His latest gambit, however, about instituting ?a complete and total shutdown? of Muslims from entering the United States, may have backfired. Many people, including many Republicans, believe that this time he?s gone too far.
One of the people who have objected to Trump rarely comments on much these days. He let his fists do the talking in his fighting days, when his mouth wasn?t working overtime, but has been more or less silent for years, for which we have boxing to thank or not.
In a recently released statement, Muhammad Ali has gone public with his dismissal of Donald Trump and all he stands for.
?I am a Muslim,? said Ali, ?and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world. True Muslims know that ruthless violence of so-called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.?
Calling them ?misguided murders,? which no one can dispute, Ali said that Trump?s values, such as they are, are antithetical to the American way of life.
Of course it?s possible that Ali has a hidden agenda.
But the same needs to be said about Donald Trump, whose narcissism makes The Greatest look like a totem of self-effacement.
