Radio host Charlamagne tha God, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, delivered a scathing critique of President Donald Trump on Saturday, saying that people are “hurting” under his administration.
Charlamagne made those remarks during a Saturday evening appearance on My View, a Fox News program hosted by Lara Trump — the president’s daughter-in-law.
Lara Trump invited the syndicated radio host to evaluate Trump’s performance after six months in office. In response, Charlamagne was blunt.
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“I wouldn’t give it a good rating — simply because the least of us are still being impacted the worst,” Charlamagne said. “Like when you look at something like the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill.’ That’s something that I’m going to benefit from because of the tax bracket that I’m in. But there’s going to be so many people that’s hurt by that bill.”
He went on to argue that mainstream Americans are not actually experiencing improvement and remain locked out from the price relief that had been promised.
“Right now people are hurting!” Charlamagne said. “He campaigned on immediate change. Day one change.”
The host asked, “And you don’t think you’ve felt any change?” Charlamagne replied simply, “No.”
In response to another question, he said, “I want to see the criminals and illegal immigrants actually deported. Not people who are here trying to go through the process of being in this country legally. When you see people actually getting deported and getting detained and they’re actually trying to go through a process of being American citizens, that’s not right.”
Referring to approval ratings on both sides, he suggested public dissatisfaction spans the political spectrum.
“When you look at Democrats’ approval rating in this country, when you look at Republicans’ approval rating in this county, you see that America’s just fed up with it all,” Charlamagne said.
“Like, Democrats suck. We know that already though. You know what I mean? So it’s like…I knew that Trump would probably get in office again and fumble. But I also knew that Democrats wouldn’t have the team put together properly to recover the ball.”
He continued: “So what you’re seeing right now from the American people is just a backlash to everything. People want something different.”
Trump responded to Charlamagne’s remarks in a late night post on his Truth Social platform, calling him a “low IQ individual.”
“He’s a Low IQ individual, has no idea what words are coming out of his mouth, and knows nothing about me or what I have done – like just ending 5 Wars, including a 31 year bloodbath between Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, where Seven Million people have died, and there was no end in sight. He didn’t know that, or India and Pakistan or, wiping out Iran’s nuclear capabilities, or closing the horrendous open Border, or creating the greatest economy, where prices and Inflation have come way down, and where STUPID and CORRUPT JOE BIDEN set the record for doing the Worst Job as President, EVER,” the president wrote.