Charles Barkley blasts Trump for ‘pseudo-racist rhetoric’ 

Former NBA star turned television personality Charles Barkley took a shot at former President Trump for his recent rhetoric on immigration.

“For a man who’s running for the most powerful position in the world to use pseudo-racist rhetoric — that’s one of the reasons I can’t vote for that guy,” Barkley said Wednesday. “Because man, he just rubs me the wrong way. And people can vote for whoever they want to. But I just do not like it at all.”

Trump has come under widespread criticism in recent weeks for the way he has described the influx of immigrants coming to America over the southern border and the effect he has been telling his supporters it is having on the country.

During a recent campaign event, Trump claimed millions of people are entering the country illegally and “poisoning the blood of our country.”

During his first term in office, Trump wrote in a social media post that immigrant Democratic congresswomen who had been criticizing him to “go back to where they came from.”

Barkley has criticized Trump in the past, recently calling supporters of the former president “crazy.”

Barkley this fall launched a new weekly show in prime time on CNN with journalist Gayle King, a program that Nielsen Media Research data shows has so far failed to catch on in the ratings.