Trump couldn’t bring himself to call civil rights icon John Lewis “impressive,” apparently too big of a compliment to give someone who skipped his inauguration more than three years ago
“I really don’t know,” he said. “I don’t know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration … I never met John Lewis, actually, I don’t believe.” Asked whether he found Lewis’ life impressive, the president was similarly ambivalent. “I can’t say one way or the other. I find a lot of people impressive. I find many people not impressive,” Trump said.
“He didn’t come to my inauguration. He didn’t come to my State of the Union speeches. And that’s OK. That’s his right,” the president said, claiming “nobody has done more for Black Americans than I have.”In a 2018 appearance on ABC’s “The View,” Lewis discussed his decision to skip Trump’s inauguration. “I felt strongly … that I couldn’t be at home with myself if I had to participate or be part of it,” he.
“He should have come. I think he made a big mistake,” Trump told Swan last Tuesday. At the time of the interview, Lewis was lying in state at the Capitol. The president, Axios notes, decided against visiting to pay his respects to the late congressman. Trump also skipped Lewis’ funeral later that week, where three former presidents—
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