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Charlamagne likened politics to WWE …
During Friday’s broadcast of The Breakfast Club, radio host Charlamagne Tha God reacted to now-viral photos and videos of former President Barack Obama laughing with President-elect Donald Trump while attending former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.
Charlamagne expressed doubt that Democrats ever truly believed that Donald Trump was a threat to Democracy; “Would you giggle with Hitler?” he asked his co-hosts.
“I just think politics is all WWE [World Wrestling Entertainment], and meanwhile, we out here cutting off family and friends and business relationships because of who somebody chose to vote for,” Charlamagne said. “Like, stop running to kick that football, man. Cut it out. Politics is all WWE. It’s really just that simple for me … After you went so hard calling somebody a threat to democracy and calling somebody a fascist and now you just chummy chummy with the man? You told us he was a threat to democracy. To me, that’s just terrible political optics.”
“They was calling him a fascist, just like his VP called him Hitler. Would you giggle with Hitler? Meanwhile, Republicans demonize Democrats every chance they get … But you got the last real leader of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, laughing and giggling with Trump, looking like, yeah, he’s kissing the ring,” he added. “That’s what it looked like. It did.”
Co-hosts DJ Envy and Jess Hilarious pushed back — but Charlamagne was adamant that the optics of the interaction looked terrible given past Democrat rhetoric.
“All I’m saying is it just looks like terrible political optics after you’ve used such crazy-ass rhetoric against him,” Charlamagne said. “And by the way, I’m a person that’s called him a fascist too, but not because of what Democrats said, but because of what I heard coming out of his mouth. But if you going to use that type of rhetoric and then sit there and [laugh] with him after the fact, that’s terrible political optics.”
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Charlamagne on Obama laughing with Trump at Carter funeral: “After you went so hard calling somebody a threat to democracy and calling somebody a fascist and now you just chummy chummy with the man? You told us he was a threat to democracy. To me, that’s just terrible political… pic.twitter.com/KeHsQrz9uC
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) January 10, 2025