Donald Trump: Black Political Pundit Tavis Smiley is ‘Racist’

Republican front-running presidential candidate Donald Trump hit back at prolific talk-show host Tavis Smiley, who called him “an unrepentant, irascible, religious and racial arsonist” on a recent episode of This Week on ABC.

Trump took to his preferred medium to fight with a political pundit for having a political opinion: Twitter.

Why does @ThisWeekABC w/ @GStephanopoulos allow a hater & racist like @tavissmiley to waste good airtime? @ABC can do much better than him!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2016

That Smiley would discuss Trump’s perceived racial arson is not surprising considering he was appearing on George Stephanopoulos‘s show to discuss his latest book, The Covenant With Black America: Ten Years Later. As Smiley’s book tour rolls on, Trump’s history publicly pursuing his detractors indicates that this battle will see more airtime very soon.

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