San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich unleashed on President Trump Monday, calling him “a soulless coward” who is “unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically” to be in the White House.
“This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks that he can only become large by belittling others,” Popovich told The Nation, after first telling reporter Dave Zirin to “please make sure this is on the record.”
“This has of course been a common practice of his, but to do it in this manner – and to lie about how previous presidents responded to the deaths of soldiers – is as low as it gets,” he continued.
Popovich, who has won five NBA championships since joining the Spurs in 1996, has previously harangued Trump for his “disgusting tenor and tone and all the comments that have been xenophobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic.”
But the U.S. Air Force Academy graduate admitted the president’s incorrect comments on Monday about how previous administrations’ rarely contacted military families dealing with the loss of loved ones was “so beyond the pale.”
He added he was “amazed and disappointed” by Trump’s “never ending divisiveness” and chastised his aides for not doing more to the correct the president’s course.
“We have a pathological liar in the White House: unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office and the whole world knows it, especially those around him every day,” he said. “The people who work with this President should be ashamed because they know it better than anyone just how unfit he is, and yet they choose to do nothing about it. This is their shame most of all.”
Tip-off for the NBA’s regular season is Tuesday.
