Bernie Sanders Calls Trump ‘Racist’ on MLK Day

Senator Bernie Sanders again called President Trump a racist on Monday as the nation celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, repeating a sentiment he first expressed in November. “I must tell you, it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the United States who is a racist,” Sanders said at an MLK Day town hall at Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C. “Today we say to Donald Trump, ‘We are not going back to more bigotry, discrimination, and division.’ Instead of bringing us together as Americans, he has purposely and aggressively attempted to divide us up by the color of our skin, by our gender, by our nationality, by our religion. Back in November, Sanders branded the president a racist in a speech to Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.