?He said really crude things. They was really crude. He needs someone to work with him on how to deliver his messages and stuff??
?If voting changed anything, they?d make it illegal.??Emma Goldman
With the irrepressible Donald Trump sliding in the polls, there?s no time like the present to bring out the big guns. Whenever I think of big guns insofar as the billionaire is concerned, my mind drifts to Melania Knauss-Trump, his Slovenian-born wife. But there are other big guns in Trump?s corner beside the possible ?first lady for the ages.?
In a recent sitdown with HuffPost Live, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was asked about the real estate tycoon, with whom he has history, and if believes Trump has the right stuff to ?make America great again.?
?He should be President of the United States,? said Tyson. ?That?s what he should be. He should be President of the United States. He should be President of the United States. Why are the people mad at the people ?cause this is who the people want to be President? You see Donald Trump?s polls. ?See, this is not going to happen. It?s going down.? So they?re saying. These people don?t know what they?re talking about. They?re telling people right in their face, all the Republicans, all the Democrats, and the Independents, they?re saying right in the people?s face, ?You don?t know what you?re doing. You?re going to vote for me next week. You don?t think about Donald Trump. You?re just riding on the bandwagon of success.? They?re telling us we?re stupid. That?s what they?re telling us. You see that too? No really. ?These people are stupid. That?s going down. He ain?t gonna keep your vote there.? They?re really talking at the interview, but they?re saying it to the people that the people don?t listen to them. ?Nah, that?s never going to last. The people don?t want to keep the numbers where they are.??
?Why wouldn?t anybody like that, a guy who came from where he came from and doing what he?s doing and now this is where he?s at now? Know what that means? That don?t mean he?s a bad guy, that people don?t know what they?re doing. That means that people are tired of what you?ve been doing, what we?ve been doing the last 20 years. Let?s try something new. We tried Obama. Time for a change, so we got to change. Now let?s try something new. Let?s run America like a business, where no colors matters. Whoever can do the job gets the job.?
It is indeed time for a change. But no one knows if Trump can ?do the job? until he?s in a position to actually do the job. That?s a roll of the dice, a pastime which might be in the candidate?s favor.
?This is just what it is,? continued Tyson. ?He?s the man right now with the light, regardless of what I like about him or anything. It?s who he is. He?s ahead of the polls right now and we as human beings, we always say, ?Let?s treat people right. Let?s treat these people. Let?s treat immigration. Let?s treat people right. Stop killing these people.? Hey, this guy?s winning fair and square. He?s not bribing anybody. You know if you?re doing it fair and square and we?re all for the people and the people want this guy, then why are the people bad and why is this guy bad? We?re just envious. We?re getting beaten. That?s just what it is. That?s who we are as people to get mad when we get beaten. The most humblest loser in the world goes home at night and cry. We?re getting beat. We be sore.?
Tyson was asked if Trump?s comments about Latinos being drug dealers and rapists were offensive.
?I didn?t look at him like that. Some people are bad. People are bad in all parts of the ethnic world. Just he didn?t know how to say it. You know what I mean? He said really crude things. They was really crude. He needs someone to work with him on how to deliver his messages and stuff. But man, as far as his accomplishment, what he did?he?s an average guy like everyone else. The end of time people always going to say something bad about Latinos, they?re going to say bad things about blacks, bad things about any ethnic people, whatever it is. That?s just what this country was built on. But it doesn?t stop us from striving. It doesn?t stop us from becoming President. It doesn?t stop us from opening the biggest Latino Univision company in the world. It doesn?t stop us from doing that. Does it? No, it doesn?t. People can talk all they want, but we?re still doing what we thought we could never do before.?
The HuffPost Live host asked Mike if ?the man who runs the country should also be able to say things like that??
?The man who runs the country is just a man,? said Tyson. ?He needs time to grow too. What we read about Kennedy and what he did. What did we read about those other Presidents? He just needs time to grow. That?s all. He hurt our feelings. He hurt our soft spot. Somebody might say ?nigger,? hurt my feeling. But I?ve heard that word before. It?s not going to make me want to kill they guy and cut him up and attack him like a savage beast. I?ve very familiar with that word. It?s not going to get a response out of me. Do you think Donald Trump thinks of Latinos in that way? I don?t think he thinks of Latinos in that way. I really don?t believe that. This man?s head, this businessman, they?re say what the people want, and the people want to hear that. And if he believed that and if you believe that he believed that, you have to believe that most of the country believed that because they?re voting for him. I don?t believe the country believed that. I don?t believe that 90 percent of the country believed that Latinos were born here and their parents are illegal and got to go. It hasn?t happened yet, alright? It hasn?t happened yet.?
