Rev. Al Sharpton’s latest race-baiting found him shoehorning a past president and “slave masters” into a narrative about President Donald Trump’s motivations for an upcoming White House event.
“They’re literally going back to that.”
(Video Credit: MS NOW)
Consistent as ever, the activist and MS NOW host appeared on “Morning Joe” Thursday, seated beside Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude. While the professor peddled a book on racism and American anniversaries, Sharpton’s take on the nation’s 250th birthday turned to allegations that Trump was hosting a UFC event at the White House to bring the country back to slavery and the time of President Andrew Jackson.
Prompted by “Morning Joe” co-anchor Willie Geist who contended “in some way, the president and a lot of people lately in this country want to frame the truthful telling of the history of America as woke, or talking about even modern inequities as some woke identity politics,” Sharpton picked up a question on how to make sure the “full story remains out there” by harping on injustices, both genuine and perceived.
On the latter, the talking head leveraged the ongoing fight over redistricting as he insisted, “Trump and others are trying to bring us back to an America that we struggled to get out of.”
“So there is a connection of why they’re having these fights on the White House lawn — the UFO and all — the UF- whatever they call it, UFC,” Sharpton said after an assist from the panel, “and all that — ’cause they’re trying to go back to that when, you know, they’d watch people have these fights for the slave masters and they’d be entertained by that. They’re literally going back to that.”
“Morning Joe” co-anchor Mika Brzezinski interjected, “Look at these ICE raids playing out on America’s streets,” as the guest plowed ahead with a reference to Trump’s display of a painting of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office during his first administration.
“Why Jackson? That’s the kind of country he wants us to go back to: Andrew Jackson. And we must resist that with all we have,” asserted Sharpton.
Meanwhile, UFC President Dana White called to mind a different Jackson when he defended the president’s reputation days earlier during an interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick.
Referring to the narrative applied to Trump and “who he is as a person” by the left as “gross,” White said, “These things that he’s a racist, and he’s a Nazi, and he’s this and that … I mean, Donald Trump … All this stuff’s coming out now, the ‘Michael’ movie just came out, and you see all these videos now popping up of Trump defending Michael Jackson, and the type of person that he was, and that Michael Jackson was around his children and around his family a lot.”
When Remnick raised Jackson’s reputation as “abusive” to children, White responded, “I don’t know if that’s true, but I can tell you that the president had a very good relationship with Michael Jackson, and had Michael Jackson around his kids all the time. And you know, defended him when that stuff was going down. So to call the guy a racist is crazy.”
As for Sharpton’s latest race-baiting analysis, reactions on social media included call-outs of his one-track mind, along with his own past palling with the likes of boxing promoter Don King.
These are trained warriors [fathers, husbands, and sons] who spend most of their adult lives training and bleeding their way to the top. How dare they dwindle down their profession to a just some sort of forced participation for entertainment.
— FoundAgainAfter (@CheatCodeTruth) May 30, 2026
— BigJ (@BigJeff6515) June 1, 2026
What a sad excuse for a human being. If he’s not race baiting and inflaming racial tensions to try and think he’s relevant, he’s not happy.
— MooseCat (@Brown75317737) May 30, 2026
— Just Sayin’ (@Roger86174104) May 29, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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