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| Donald Trump, left, talks to Gregory Cheadle as he leaves a campaign rally at the Redding Municipal Airport, in Redding, Calif., on June 3, 2016. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) |
September 13, 2019 at 5:13 a.m. CDT
“Oh, look at my African American over here!” Trump exclaimed, pointing at Cheadle. “Look at him! Are you the greatest?”
Cheadle laughed at Trump’s outburst then.
Now, citing the president’s “white superiority complex,” Cheadle isn’t in the same party anymore.
On
Wednesday, Cheadle revealed he has abandoned the GOP to launch a bid
for Congress as an independent in California’s 1st Congressional
District, saying he’s had enough of Republicans’ failure to condemn
Trump’s comments denigrating black people. Cheadle doesn’t identify any
one moment as his breaking point, but rather a deflating succession of
them. Somewhere between Trump’s feud with former NFL star Colin Kaepernick and his attacks on Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), between his “shithole countries” comment and his “go back” tweets, “I said, ‘Enough is enough. I’m sick of it,’" Cheadle said.
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