Coach Pop wants you to know that he really, truly, from the very bottom of his heart, does not like President Trump.
News Radio 1200 WOAI reports that Coach Gregg Popovich called the sports editor of the liberal magazine 'The Nation,' on Monday, taking time out two days before the start of the regular season, to call Trump a 'soulless coward.
Dave Zirin, sports editor for 'The Nation,' says Popovich was ticked off about Trump's suggestion that Presidents Bush and Obama had not called the family members of service members killed in action. President Trump was discussing his reaction to the ambush murders of four soldiers in the African nation of Niger.
Zirin says Pop said President Trump "thinks that he can only become large by belittling others," according to 'The Nation.' "This has of course been a common practice of his, but to do it in this manner—and to lie about how previous presidents responded to the deaths of soldiers—is as low as it gets. We have a pathological liar in the White House, unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office, and the whole world knows it, especially those around him every day."
Coach Pop's comments come as no surprise to San Antonio Spurs fans. Last month at Spurs Media Day, Pop said Trump has made the U.S. an 'embarrassment' and he blasted the President for calling NFL players who were kneeling during the National Anthem 'S.O.B.'s.'
Zirin went on to quote Pop commenting about Trump:
"I’ve been amazed and disappointed by so much of what this president had said, and his approach to running this country, which seems to be one of just a never ending divisiveness. But his comments today about those who have lost loved ones in times of war and his lies that previous presidents Obama and Bush never contacted their families are so beyond the pale, I almost don’t have the words.”
The Spurs open the 2017 2018 season tomorrow night at the AT&T Center against the Timberwolves.