Athletes to Trump: That's not how our locker room talks

Oct 14, 2016, 00:52
Athletes to Trump: That's not how our locker room talks

"Certainly I'm not proud it but this is locker room talk".

Mr. Trump apologized for the recording, brushing it off as "locker room" talk. On Wednesday the NBA MVP was asked about his experience with real locker room talk, and his response was clear.

"What that guy was saying", James said of Mr Trump. He does not understand that what he is boasting about is not what men boast about in locker rooms. "Guys in the locker room, they laugh and they joke but I've never heard anyone say anything even close to (Trump's words)".

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's lewd comments from a 2005 conversation with "Access Hollywood" then-host Billy Bush have been inescapable since their surfacing by a veteran Washington Post reporter on Friday. But what that guy was saying - that's not.

"I just thought that was just disgusting", Van Jones told Jake Tapper. "I've got a mother in law, a wife, a mom, and a daughter, and those conversations just don't go on in our locker room". That is what I have to say.

"Former Olympic hurdler Queen Harrison tweeted this: "'Locker room talk, ' 'Boys will be boys, ' 'Harmless banter.' These are not valid excuses for behavior.

The former Super Bowl champion's silence follows positive comments he made about Trump during an interview late a year ago.

Video of the incident shows that Brady seemed to take it lightheartedly, smiling before declining to answer and walking away. You're going to be the commander-in-chief of what's known as the greatest country in the world, and that's what's coming out of your mouth?

Sen. Jeff Sessions, a Trump supporter who was U.S. attorney in Alabama for 12 years and state attorney general for two years, also said the language Trump used did not describe sexual assault.

UFC fighter Phil Brooks, or CM Punk, went as far as to liken Trump's comments to something serial killer Ted Bundy might have said.

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