Video: Minister sounds off about the incoming president
By Kevin Coughlin
Sixty-two million Americans “have been duped by a false messiah,” according to a former associate of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Rev. Jesse Wendell Mapson Jr., guest speaker at Monday’s Martin Luther King Day service at Calvary Baptist Church in Morristown, knew King at Morehouse College.
“How disappointed he would be at the state of the nation today, a nation that claims to be Christian, and yet elects a president diametrically opposed to Jesus’ concern for the least, the lame, the lost and the left out,” Mapson said, referring to President-elect Donald Trump.
The pastor of Philadelphia’s Monumental Baptist Church rapped the incoming commander-in-chief as “a president whose idea of draining the swamp is to put more ferocious alligators in the swamp,” a man “who chooses for his cabinet rich, white conservative males, military hawks who want America to rule the world by military might rather than by moral persuasion.”
Earlier, at an MLK Day breakfast in Morristown, a local minister declared: “Trump does not espouse Christian values.”
Trump “was born with not one, but two silver spoons in his mouth. Yet [he] pretends to identify with the common man,” said Mapson, who was raised in Newark.
He contrasted Trump with President Obama, “a man of dignity and grace, the personification of class and poise under pressure. A man intelligent and compassionate.
“When I see the one getting ready to take the oath of office, America has traded a glass of expensive champagne for a bottle of cheap wine. Traded a thoroughbred racehorse for a donkey, otherwise known as a …”
Mapson did not complete the sentence.
–MG Contributor Bill Lescohier contributed to this report.