Rev. Al Sharpton accused President Donald Trump and Republicans of trying to return the country to a more racist era during a Thursday appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” tying the dispute over redistricting to Trump’s planned UFC event on the White House lawn and his admiration for Andrew Jackson.
“Trump and others are trying to bring us back to an America that we struggled to get out of,” Sharpton said.
Sharpton argued that Trump’s embrace of a White House UFC event was connected to the same politics behind the redistricting fight.