The web fooled many forward of election day, after a pretend viral publish did the rounds saying that NBA legend Michael Jordan is in assist of Donald Trump.
The message claimed that the previous participant had grow to be “the newest to endorse Donald Trump for president.” It was accompanied by an image of MJ in his youthful days, however that was all of the detailed offered.
JUST IN: Michael Jordan turns into the newest to endorse Donald Trump for President pic.twitter.com/rNq3t34IBK
— Serf (@TheRoyalSerf) November 3, 2024
The publish has gotten thousands and thousands of shares and likes and has compelled Jordan’s rep to make a press release concerning its validity.
“There may be completely no reality to the declare that Michael Jordan has made an endorsement within the presidential election,” they informed The Independant.
MJ is notoriously non-public about his political beliefs and his private life.
However that hasn’t stopped him from turning into by chance concerned.
Again in 1990, Jordan determined towards publicly endorsing a Democrat Harvey Gantt throughout a North Carolina Senate election.
Some thought Jordan – who grew up in North Carolina, ought to endorse Gantt.
However as a substitute, Jordan famously mentioned, “Republicans purchase sneakers, too.”
Years later in 2020, MJ stood by what he mentioned on The Final Dance docuseries.
“I don’t assume that assertion must be corrected as a result of I mentioned it in jest on a bus with Horace Grant and Scottie Pippen.
He added, “It was thrown off the cuff. My mom requested to do a PSA for Harvey Gantt, and I mentioned, ‘Look, Mother, I’m not talking out of pocket about somebody that I don’t know. However I’ll ship a contribution to assist him.’ Which is what I did,” he went on.
“I do commend Muhammad Ali for standing up for what he believed in. However I by no means considered myself as an activist. I considered myself as a basketball participant. I wasn’t a politician after I was enjoying my sport.
“I used to be targeted on my craft. Was that egocentric? In all probability. However that was my power. That’s the place my power was.”
As for NBA’s different GOAT, LeBron James, he lately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
“What are we even speaking about right here??,” he wrote on X. “After I take into consideration my youngsters and my household and the way they are going to develop up, the selection is obvious to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!”
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