It has been noted that CNN’s Gayle King was forced to initiate damage control on Saturday after her King Charles co-host Charles Barkley threatened to punch Black people who wear shirts with former President Donald Trump’s mugshot on them in the face via Mediaite.
During the show, King played a clip of Trump boasting about Black people wearing shirts with his mugshot on before asking Barkley, “When you heard that, what did you think?”
Barkley let out a big sigh, before replying, “First of all, I’m just going to say this, if I see a Black person walking around with Trump mugshot I’m gonna punch him in the face.”
“Charles. Charles, you really can’t say that ’cause, A. you don’t mean that,” interrupted King.
Barkley shot back, “Oh, I mean that sincerely.”
“And then you will be arrested for assault, and then what?” questioned King.
“I’m gonna bail myself out and go celebrate,” Barkley responded.
After the audience laughed, King pleaded, “Don’t encourage him.”
Barkley then said that if he were at the conference where Trump delivered his remarks, he would have walked out.
“That was an insult to all Black people,” he said. “To compare Black history, where we’ve been discriminated against, to his plight– Well, first of all, he’s a billionaire, and they are prosecuting him for stuff he did wrong.”
King noted, “It’s still in the court system, Charles; we have to wait.”
“Well, some of the stuff is true,” Barkley concluded. “They did storm the Capitol. They did say that the election was stolen.”
