Al Sharpton Has Some Advice for Donald Trump
Al Sharpton thinks that Donald Trump is in way over his head, and gave Trump some advice today that he got from James Brown.
The MSNBC host spoke with The Washington Post today about the phenomenon that is Trump’s campaign. And Sharpton, who ran a presidential campaign he now freely admits wasn’t aimed at winning in the first place, doesn’t think Trump quite understands that shooting your mouth off when you’re running for president is the same thing as just shooting your mouth off in general.
“What plays at Lincoln Center,” Sharpton said, “don’t play at the Apollo. And I think that he is an Apollo act in Lincoln Center.”
He relayed how Brown once told him that performing in the lounge is very different than performing on the main stage, and that’s what Trump doesn’t get:
Nobody called him on all the outrageous stuff he said about President Obama. [That’s because] he was the guy in the lounge talking about the president. Nobody called him when he was talking all this immigration, [because] he was the lounge guy in the lounge. He sitting up there with a presidential candidate [Sarah Palin] eating pizza with a knife and fork. It was a big cultural joke. But now you’re talking about BEING president. You’re on center stage now. That ain’t cute no more.
Of course, Trump and plenty of conservatives took shots at Sharpton for being allowed to keep his big stage at MSNNC while they disciplined Brian Williams and severed ties to Trump.
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