Trump says Mike Tyson has defended him from accusations of racism

President Donald Trump recalled his person and boxing fable Mike Tyson defending him from accusations of racism, during a Black History Month code astatine the White House connected Wednesday. 

Trump's claims astir Tyson came erstwhile the president was giving praise to famed Black athletes successful American history, including Tyson, chap boxing legends Muhamad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard, and NFL fable Lawrence Taylor. 

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"Mike Tyson, boy, I'll archer you, Mike has been loyal to me. Whenever they travel retired and accidental 'Trump's a racist!' Mike Tyson goes, 'He's not a racist! He's my friend, he's been determination since the beginning. Good times and bad," Trump said. 

"But Mike Tyson is simply a large feline and helium was truthful loyal, ever been loyal."

Trump and Tyson person a relationship that dates backmost to the 1980s during Tyson's premier arsenic a boxer and Trump's emergence arsenic a personage New York City existent property developer.

Tyson has contributed to aggregate initiatives nether Trump's administration. 

Tyson stood with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, partnering with the Trump medication to combat obesity earlier successful February. During the Super Bowl, Tyson spoke successful a commercialized astir the value of tackling the U.S.'s reliance connected processed food. In the ad,

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Last summer, Tyson antecedently wrote a missive to Trump urging him to federally recategorize Cannabis arsenic a less-harmful substance. Tyson led a conjugation that featured a database of different athletes and entertainers, including Kevin Durant and Ricky Williams, pushing for the change. 

It paid disconnected successful December, erstwhile Trump rescheduled Cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III, which is considered little harmful and much usable for aesculapian research.

Trump praised different famed Black American athletes astatine the event

On Ali: "Muhammad Ali, who was a person of mine, I enactment a representation of myself and Muhammad. It was different portion of work. He taught the best, but helium could combat bully successful the end."

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On Taylor: "Lawrence Taylor, large friend, Lawrence, the large Lawrence Taylor, the top antiaircraft subordinate astir apt successful the past of football, is simply a large person of mine. But I'm longer disconnected the tee than him. You cognize what you say? Take the travel backmost for it takes a nine backmost this acold and helium hits it 200 yards. When you tin bash that, you're strong. He's a great, helium is simply a large guy." 

Former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor (56) is shown sacking Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Craig Erickson during their 12 Sept. 1993 crippled astatine Giants Stadium successful East Rutherford, NJ.  (MARK D. PHILLIPS/AFP via Getty Images)

On erstwhile NFL prima Herschel Walker: "Herschel Walker speaking astir loyal. How bully a shot subordinate was. Herschel. Yeah, Herschel Walker present is ambassador to the Bahamas."

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