Legendary ex talk show host, Montel Williams, has never been one to mince his words, nor sugarcoat his opinion. It doesn’t matter if he’s talking about an everyday citizen or the President of the ‘free world’ and his White House Chief of Staff.
That’s exactly what Montel has just done when he was stopped by TMZ early Wednesday at the LAX airport. As Montel was waiting on his car, he was asked his thoughts on the ridiculously high level of disrespect Donald Trump has shown to slain Sergeant La David Johnson’s widow, Meyshia Johnson. That’s when Montel- who’s a military veteran too- didn’t hesitate to go off about not only Trump’s insensitive phone call to Myeshia, but also the blatant lie Trump told on Rep. Frederica Wilson & Myeshia regarding the matter. He also addressed the public bashing that Trump and Gen. John Kelly did to Congresswoman Wilson, even though she was the one telling the truth.
Montel gave an example on how he’d handle a situation like that, then became increasingly pissed off about Trump and Kelly:
“If I said something to you right now and I really believed it in my heart…But if I offended you, I don’t have a right to tell you how to feel. You have a right to be offended. If you are offended, as a man, I should step up to the plate and apologize. […] Be a man! … Call that woman and apologize! Generals don’t call a 24 year old lady who have a baby inside, two babies on her knee, husband DEAD in a casket that hasn’t seen and say *beating his chest* “Rah-rah!!” Calm it down…all you have to do is say, ‘It’s a misconception, I apologize, Im sorry.”
Watch Montel Williams Slamming Of Trump & Gen. Kelly
Williams then became more heated about the matter as he talked…see what else he said in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aw9PI3lOCQ
In Case You Missed It
In case y’all missed it, Rep. Wilson publicly blasted Trump after she heard him insensitively tell Myeshia her husband ‘knew what he signed up for. But I guess it still hurts’ during his condolence call to Mrs. Johnson.
Trump then took to Twitter to blast Wilson, calling her a liar and flat out denying he said those words to Myeshia.
La David’s step-mother later confirmed, in a statement to the press, that Rep. Wilson is correct, Trump “disrespected” her son and their family with that insensitive comment to Myeshia.
Trump then goes silent and Gen. Kelly shocks many, by stepping in and picking up the slack for Trump, but using his own son’s 2010 military death in Afghanistan to do so. In a rare press briefing, Kelly was clearly emotional about his son’s death, understandably so.
However, many were surprised that he’d allowed Trump to have him go out and use the death of his son to back up a lie and further bash Rep. Wilson for telling the truth. During Kelly’s speech, he actually confirmed that Trump did in fact say what Rep. Wilson said he did, but it was taken outta context. But then he tried to deflect the attention away from Trump’s lie and insensitivity with this:
“I was stunned when I came to work yesterday morning, and broken-hearted at what I saw a member of Congress doing. […] “A member of Congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the United States to a young wife, and in his way tried to express that opinion.”
Kelly went on to say that his close friend told him something similar to what Trump told Myeshia, when his son died. But in that same press briefing, Kelly changed course and attempted to discredit Rep. Wilson on some unrelated political matter, painting her as a hypocrite. However, CBS confirmed that Sun-Sentinal researched Kelly’s claims against Wilson and proved that they were not true.
Myeshia Johnson then bravely spoke out on Good Morning America and confirmed that Trump did in fact “offend” her and make her break down crying, after telling her that her husband ‘knew what he signed up for… but I guess it still hurts anyway.’
Trump immediately took his fingers back to Twitter and called Myeshia a liar, by flat-out denying what his chief of staff had already confirmed he’d said to Myeshia as well.
So the point that Montel Williams made regarding Trump and Gen. Kelly are completely justifiable. If either of them have any common decency, they’d recant everything they’ve said against Rep. Wilson regarding their claims and most definitely pick up the phone and apologize to Myeshia Johnson.
