Kevin Durant Won't Visit White House With Donald Trump In Office Kevin Durant will not visit the White House if the Golden State Warriors are invited. "Nah, I won't do that," said Durant. "I don't respect who's in office right now." The Warriors are scheduled to play at the Washington Wizards on Feb. 28th, but the White House has yet to extend a formal invitation. "I don't agree with what he agrees with, so my voice is going to be heard by not doing that," said Durant, who said it wasn't an organizational decision. "That's just me personally, but if I know my guys well enough, they'll all agree with me." Durant believes the president has played a role in the escalation of racial tension in the United States and the public rise of white supremacists. "He's definitely driving it," Durant said. "I feel ever since he's got into office, or since he ran for the presidency, our country has been so divided, and it's not a coincidence. When [Barack] Obama was in office, things were looking up. We had so much hope in our communities where I come from because we had a black president, and that was a first. "So to see that and to be where we are now, it just felt like we took a turn for the worse, man. It all comes from who is in the administration. It comes from the top. Leadership trickles down to the rest of us. So, you know, if we have someone in office that doesn't care about all people, then we won't go anywhere as a country. In my opinion, until we get him out of here, we won't see any progress."
When Tricky Dick was in process of being impeached the Oakland A's went to the White House, explaining they respect the office of the presidency regardless of the person who holds it. But sometimes the person holding it can degrade the office to the point where there is no respect. Well, no, not sometimes. Just this time.
I don't care if he visits the wh or not. Just like I don't care if any other athlete visits it or not. Frankly it's a non-story. I do disagree with KD when he said, 'things were looking up when Obama was president'. I'd even perhaps go as far to say that KD is privileged if he truly believes things were looking up. They're worse now than under Obama. But things were most def not trending upwards.
Depends on what things you choose to look at. I think we can all agree that things trended up for KD himself, at a minimum. barfo
IDK he never won a championship under the Obama administration. Trump brings KD rings! As I said, if KD truly believes race relations were trending upwards under Obama. Then he is very much privileged.
To be fair, Durant seemed to be tying it back to "the communities he came from," rather than his own status. That doesn't mean he's right, or wrong. Whether things were looking up under Obama depends on how you're measuring. As examples, income equality wasn't heading the right way, but his Justice Department was taking the first concrete steps towards police reform that I can recall by the federal government in the last couple of decades. While he didn't move the health care system as far as I, and many liberals, would have liked (at least to a public option, single payer ideally), he ushered through the first big health care reform in many generations and pushed it in the right direction. There has been serious, lasting benefit from that, as public opinion has swung massively in favor of universal health care since Obamacare went into effect. Like anything, whether things were going in the "right direction" is ambiguous and depends on what you most prioritize.
I agree with you that certain things such as healthcare and police reform were far better under Obama than they've been in my lifetime. I still disagree with certain things about Obamacare like forcing a tax on being young, and a couple other things. With that said. But that's not what KD said. He said nothing about Obamacare or Police reform. He said. Durant believes the president has played a role in the escalation of racial tension in the United States and the public rise of white supremacists. "He's definitely driving it," Durant said. "I feel ever since he's got into office, or since he ran for the presidency, our country has been so divided, and it's not a coincidence. When [Barack] Obama was in office, things were looking up. We had so much hope in our communities where I come from because we had a black president, and that was a first. KD is speaking specifically about racial tension, and race relations. However he's very privileged if he thinks racial tension/race relations were better under Obama than the presidents before him. It's only got worse under Trump, but it also only got worse under Obama. This forum is a perfect example of the racial tension that exists. CNN said countless times under Obama race relations have never been so bad. Trump alone isn't responsible, and to think he is. IMO is trying to find a scapegoat and not look at the actual problems.
I'm sorry dviss, I like you and you're one of the few posters on here I feel I could hang out with at a forum event. But I will not discuss artificial things like this.
Durant is the biggest bitch in all of professional sports. Going to the White House to meet with Trump would be a step up from his selling out to get his easy ring.
Here's my contention: How often do you get to tell the sitting president EXACTLY how you feel to his fucking face? Not often. If I had the chance to tell ANY president that I disagree with him, I'd take that chance 100 times out of 100.
That's probably what they're aiming for. Rather than create a big thing about declining an invite, make it known early and avoid the invite altogether.
