White vs. Donald Trump
White has signed a petition requesting the removal of Donald Trump as a spokesman for Macy’s, and he was quite forceful in laying out his reasoning for doing so.
“If you follow Donald, which I do on social media, then you’ll see him blasting off; using his freedom of speech to say things I felt were inappropriate. You shouldn’t disrespect the president even if you don’t agree with their policies. I didn’t love Bush but I’m not gonna disrespect my president because I was raised to believe that that’s wrong. Just like my friend Roland Martin had to sit down from CNN for a tweet that he sent, which to me was silly… Donald Trump is the face of Macy’s, he speaks for a network, he has multiple television shows; he’s got to be held to the same level of accountability that Roland Martin or Kobe [Bryant.] Donald needs to be held to that same standard. He can’t slander the president, he can’t be racist when he’s talking about any president and if you do, we gotta play that same game. You did it to try to sway votes, I’m doing it to try to sway Macy’s votes so I can get you out of there so I can stop listening to you.”
