Russell Simmons Explains Why He Told Donald Trump to ‘Stop the bullsh*t’

Russell Simmons

Also in the past, Russell considered Donald a friend,

Let me say this…he was a very sweet guy, he still is in his heart, I’m sure…I haven’t spoken to him recently since I said I thought Kim Kardashian would be a better President.

Simmons made it clear he does not want to see Trump as President,

I didn’t realize that he was a serious contender…I thought it was you know, not a joke, but I thought it was him inserting his point of view into the process. I didn’t know that he would be the leader, you know I’m surprised.

The reality though, is despite Trump’s outrageous comments, he is still leading in the polls,

Fanning those fumes of hate has been a real good thing for his campaign and that’s sad, it’s sad that America buys into it and I think we have to set the country straight as much as we can.

Simmons believes that his work to set the country straight with his foundation, and Trump condemning Muslims deters that work,

You know we were founded, this country founded on religious freedom and those kind of statements are un-American, so it’s very important to me that we stand up in a case like this because we have to remind people what this country was founded on and that’s why I wrote the letter.

He continued,

The most important thing we can do is protect all people in the way that we would like protection for ourselves and I think right now the amount of Islam phobia in this country is at a high and it’s dangerous for us as a country that’s supposed to represent tolerance to have this level of hate brewing and the fact that so many people support Donald Trump’s statement is a statement in and of itself.

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