Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry took to Twitter to call out the blatant hypocrisy of President Donald Trump, whose supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday.
Last July 27, 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests continued in Portland, Oregon, Trump condemned the protestors and even tagged the Department of Homeland Security at the end of his tweet.
“Anarchists, Agitators or Protestors who vandalize or damage our Federal Courthouse in Portland, or any Federal Buildings in any of our Cities or States, will be prosecuted under our recently re-enacted Statues & Monuments Act. MINIMUM TEN YEARS IN PRISON. Don’t do it!”
Trump deployed federal law enforcement agents to Portland to break up the largely peaceful demonstrations.
The Warriors sharpshooter re-tweeted Trump's post from July as “protestors” took over the Capitol building to halt the joint session of Congress that was certifying the results of the 2020 election. The siege was directly incited by Trump's words at a rally in Washington D.C. earlier on Wednesday.
“There is literally a tweet for everything. Cat got your tongue today huh?” Stephen Curry wrote.
Only 13 arrests were reportedly made after the attempted takeover of the Capitol, during which one person was fatally shot.
Warriors guard Klay Thompson shared a cartoon image of Trump's reaction to the Capitol siege, depicting the president in a Ku Klux Klan capirote.
Klay Thompson reacts to the Capitol riots. pic.twitter.com/sa3Q5YOacr
— ClutchPoints NBA (@ClutchPointsNBA) January 6, 2021
Curry has been a vocal critic of Trump on multiple occasions. In July 2019, the Warriors guard praised CNN's Victor Blackwell for a segment rebuking the president's racist criticism against the city of Baltimore.
In 2017, Steph also declined a visit to the White House after the Warriors won the title.
“I don’t want to go,” Curry said. “ … We don't stand for basically what our president has — the things that he said and the things that he hasn't said in the right terms … we won't stand for it,” he said. “And by acting and not going, hopefully that will inspire some change when it comes to what we tolerate in this country and what is accepted and what we turn a blind eye to.”
Trump then disinvited Curry and the Warriors to the White House, resulting in LeBron James famously calling the president a “bum.”
The Warriors are scheduled to host the Clippers at the Chase Center on Wednesday night. At time of writing, no games have been called off or postponed due to the developments in D.C.
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