Don Cheadle: Trump Asked Friend’s Father if He Had Ever ‘F*cked a N****r’

Looks like Don Cheadle is feeling the need to add to the list of President Trump‘s Twitter-related shenanigans this weekend.

The Ocean’s Eleven star, in the midst of a quasi-Twitter war with another user over POTUS and his alleged ties with Russia, took to Twitter on Saturday with this accusatory tweet.

Hated him since he asked my friend’s father at a Doral pro-am if he’d ever “f*cked a nigger…” Did it for me … https://t.co/ypCNEPldH5

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 4, 2017

As the backlash started, Cheadle defended himself.

Her father wasn’t wearing a wire. But look up the 2M or so articles about Drumpf and racism if you need a primer. Start with his own book. https://t.co/nUhcQNqK1n

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017

When asked for proof, Cheadle took the opportunity to get in another jab at the president.

Remember “Jim No Last Name?” The guy Trump said told him Paris was a disaster now? He’s the source. ? https://t.co/V3zaQlcU10

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017

Further adding to his own defense, the Missouri native jumped back onto Twitter late Sunday morning.

1) Have you never been in a stuaition where language like this was used to describe a person of color, woman, gay person, Jewish person, https://t.co/pSfijOtteC

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017

2) LGBTQ person, Muslim, anybody, and just “kept to yourself?” We’ve ALL probably done something like this and then repeated it later to https://t.co/pSfijOtteC

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017

3) someone we know/trust/love, and sometimes with regret and shame that we didn’t speak up at the time. Same thing here. A father repeating https://t.co/pSfijOtteC

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017

4) it to his daughter with both disbelief of hearin the words and regret that he stayed quiet and minded his own business. Like that. https://t.co/pSfijOtteC

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017

Adding a certain head-scratching element to this is the fact that Cheadle didn’t specify when the incident happened and (perhaps more confounding) that he doesn’t personally know his friend’s father, the person who had this run-in with Trump.

Cheadle, though, has remained consistent in his distaste for Trump, as he has often tweeted his unabashed thoughts on the Commander in Chief.

You are truly a POS https://t.co/cyTwxgxwDh

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) August 27, 2016

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