players were caught shoplifting. the president was saying it wasn t the white house, it wasn t the state department, it wasn t father lavar s so-called people on the ground in china that got his son out of a long-term prison sentence. it was me. too bad. lavar is just a poor man s version of don king but without the hair. just think, lavar, you could have spent the next five to 10 years touring thanksgiving with your son in china but no nba contract to support you. remember, lavar, shoplift something not a little thing. it s a really big deal, especially in china. ungrateful fool. steve: the thing about these sunglasses that they stole from allegedly stole from louie vitton is they were $2,000 apiece. i had no idea sunglasses could be 2,000. ainsley: that s only three pairs of their tennis shoes. steve: that s 6,000 dollars worth of sunglasses. brian: 30-year-old former ball state linebacker got in a bar fight. he is in jail for 14 months without a day in court.
thank you so much. please keep us posted, barbara. this morning, the president says he s having meetings and working the phones at what he calls the winter white house in mar-a-lago s resort in palm beach. he is also, as we said, self-aggrandizing and name calling in his fight with the father of a college basketball player. it was me president trump wrote in all caps this morning, me who obtained the release of three college basketball players from a chinese jail. this has to do with the refusal of one of the players father, lavar ball, to lavish the president with the praise that he wants. he calls the father an ungrateful fool. more on that in a moment. but also roy moore, by contrast, now has the president s support in the alabama senate race. president trump says moore, quote, totally denies the allegations, including molesting a 14-year-old girl, engaging in sexual misconduct with other teenagers, and therefore, well, essentially from the president, nothing else to see he
with your son in china, but no nba contract to support you, but remember lavar, shoplifting is not a little thing. it s a really big deal especially in china. ungrateful fool. it s not the first time that during a serious incident something that requires attention the loss potentially of american servicemen and women abroad, the president has taken to twitter to discuss something that doesn t really seem that consequential to a whole lot of people. i think you re nice saying to discuss it. he s basically trying to keep this fight he s got going with lavar ball going. he seems to enjoy it. the two men have kind of were built for each other the way that they, you know, the bravado that they use. but twitter is essentially a window on what s on his mind and he s seen somewhere some mention of lavar ball and probably that interview on cnn which was incredible with chris
specialists. listen, we can overlook at the president s tweets, but this was a pretty remarkable tweet and i want to put it up on the screen there. calling lavar ball a poor man s version of don king, an ungrateful fool, exclamation point. looks like there is some dog whistling going on there, ryan. wouldn t you agree? what does that mean? randomly comparing him to another african-american celebrity and bizarrely one of the few african-american surrogates that trump had. supported him. i don t know how to analyze it. i don t know exactly what he s saying, but there s been a lot of commentary from a lot of people who, like you said, dog whistle. there is obvious racist overtones here. he constantly tweets at and attacks african-american, people of color from twitter. he has some issue with people of color who call him out. it s just it is a pattern. i know i ve said this in the
predawn twitter rant, stepping up his feud with the father of a ucla basketball player and the nfl as well. we re back with democratic congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan. i want to reference back to one of these predawn tweets this morning targeting lavar ball, the father of one of the three ucla basketball players. the essence of it, one, the president claiming victory here. it was me in all caps there that got him out. and calling lavar ball a poor man s version of don king and then later an ungrateful fool. are you shocked by those comments? i m not shocked because it s president trump twittering. but i wish he had better things to do. this is ridiculous. we ve got so many serious problems facing this country. i d like to see him focus on some of the more serious problems and i don t have a lot to say about the person who is attacking the president either. there is a commonality to the president s targets often. and you ll hear this from african-american commentators