NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivered one of the Democratic National Conventionβs best jabs at Donald Trump, succinctly skewering the GOP nomineeβs bigotry with a joke invoking another famous basketball player.
Abdul-Jabbar made a brief appearance at the convention Thursday evening to introduce the father of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, one of 14 American Muslims who has died serving in the military since 9/11.
βIβm Michael Jordan, and Iβm here with Hillary,β said Abdul-Jabbar. βI said that because I know that Donald Trump couldnβt tell the difference.β
Abdul-Jabbar, who was named U.S. cultural ambassador by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012, detailed how Khanβs story stands in direct contrast to Trumpβs xenophobic rhetoric.
βAt its core, discrimination is a result of fear,β he said. βThose who think Americans scare easily enough to abandon the countryβs ideals in exchange for a false sense of security underestimate our resolve. To them, we say only this: Not here, not ever.β
Watch the clip above.
Editorβs note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims β 1.6 billion members of an entire religion β from entering the U.S.