Donald Trump duly hit back at Jay-Z on Sunday, after the rapper rejected the idea the Trump presidency has been good for African Americans and called the president a “superbug” in a discussion of his reported racist remarks.
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Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, appeared on CNN’s The Van Jones Show on Saturday night.
Asked how he felt when Trump reportedly called African countries “shitholes”, Jay-Z said: “Yes, it’s disappointing and hurtful. Everyone feels anger. After the anger, it’s really hurtful because he’s like looking down on a whole population of people.”
The rapper said Trump’s reported comment – which the president has denied – was “how people talk … behind closed doors”.
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He then compared the remark, allegedly made in a meeting with senators, to a recorded conversation involving the then LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling which cost him control of the NBA team in 2014.
Sterling’s public downfall, Jay-Z said, led “all of the other closet racists [to] just run back in the hole”.