CNN political commentator and President Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord on Thursday called the president the “Martin Luther King of healthcare,” arguing that Trump has worked to rally support around healthcare reform like King rallied support around the Civil Rights Act.
“Think of President Trump as the Martin Luther King of healthcare,” Lord said during an appearance on CNN.
The comment drew an immediate backlash from Democratic strategist and fellow CNN commentator Symone Sanders, who warned Lord against King comparisons.
“Jeffrey, you do understand that Dr. King was marching for civil rights because people that looked like me were being beaten,” she said. “Dogs were being sicced on them. Basic human rights were being withheld from these people merely because the color of their skin.
“So let’s not equate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner, to the vagina-grabbing President Donald Trump.”
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Amen…it sounds like Donny t….claiming all the best of the best…for Donny T to claim anything around me, he has to do it and show it…However, there are those who claim that Donny is a secret believer in the US having a “secret payer” system. That would mean socialized medicine is what he wants… show me…
CORRECTION; the “secret payer” in the above comment should be “single payer”