American actor Don Cheadle took to Twitter on Saturday and Sunday, sharing his disdain for President Donald Trump over an alleged situation that involved his friend's father and the president.
Cheadle's string of tweets began when somebody accused him of hating Trump "way before treason."
Hated him since he asked my friend's father at a Doral pro-am if he'd ever "f*cked a nigger..." Did it for me ... https://t.co/ypCNEPldH5
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 4, 2017
After Cheadle started receiving backlash from his Twitter followers, he defended his previous tweet.
Her father wasn't wearing a wire. But look up the 2M or so articles about Drumpf and racism if you need a primer. Start with his own book. https://t.co/nUhcQNqK1n
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017
Cheadle then took the opportunity to deliver a jab at the president by referencing the time when Trump cited his friend "Jim," who told him Paris was no longer safe to travel to.
Remember "Jim No Last Name?" The guy Trump said told him Paris was a disaster now? He's the source. 🙄 https://t.co/V3zaQlcU10
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017
Late Sunday morning, Cheadle sent out four consecutive tweets further defending himself.
1) Have you never been in a stuaition where language like this was used to describe a person of color, woman, gay person, Jewish person, https://t.co/pSfijOtteC
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017
2) LGBTQ person, Muslim, anybody, and just "kept to yourself?" We've ALL probably done something like this and then repeated it later to https://t.co/pSfijOtteC
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017
3) someone we know/trust/love, and sometimes with regret and shame that we didn't speak up at the time. Same thing here. A father repeating https://t.co/pSfijOtteC
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017
4) it to his daughter with both disbelief of hearin the words and regret that he stayed quiet and minded his own business. Like that. https://t.co/pSfijOtteC
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 5, 2017
This is not the first time that Cheadle has been critical of Trump on Twitter. He used an acronym for "piece of shit" last August in response to one of Trump's now-deleted tweets.
You are truly a POS https://t.co/cyTwxgxwDh
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) August 27, 2016
As of Monday afternoon, no one has confirmed Cheadle's claims.