Gregg Popovich does not pull any punches when discussing his views on U.S. President Donald Trump and it appears as though the San Antonio Spurs head coach has some NBA players in his corner.
On Tuesday, Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan praised Popovich for speaking out against Trump by suggesting that the Spurs coach would be a good fit for the Oval Office.
“I love Pop. Every word he said, you gotta stand behind Pop,” DeRozan said. “Popovich for President, for sure.”
On Monday, Popovich called Trump “a soulless coward who thinks that he can only become large by belittling others.” The comments were in response to Trump saying that former President Barack Obama and other commanders in chief “didn’t make calls” to families of fallen soldiers.
Popovich, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump, told The Nation magazine that Trump’s latest comments were “beyond the pale” and “as low as it gets.” He called Trump “a pathological liar in the White House, unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office and the whole world knows it.”
DeRozan spoke out against the U.S. president earlier this month. At Raptors Media Day, the all-star guard criticized Trump for his response to the anthem protests across the U.S.
“I feel no player is trying to disrespect nobody, no flag, or anything like that, but we seem to be the ones to get all the disrespect from our so-called leader,” DeRozan said. “It sucks when you see that. Especially when you have kids that you wanna raise in a country that’s supposed to be the greatest country in the world. But you’ve got your president on Twitter more than a 12-year-old saying the most outrageous things [about] people trying to do something right. It’s crazy.”
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