{"id":251625,"date":"2026-07-25T02:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251625\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:50:49","slug":"trump-slams-lebron-while-comparing-him-to-michael-jordan-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251625\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams LeBron while comparing him to Michael Jordan \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports fans, athletes and celebrities are buzzing with excitement after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\/lebron-james-is-coming-to-philly\/4438206\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\/lebron-james-is-coming-to-philly\/4438206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NBA legend LeBron James announced on Friday that he\u2019s signing with the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One prominent figure who seemed less enthused by the news, however, was President Donald Trump. After the news broke, Trump was asked to weigh in on the recurring debate between fans regarding whether LeBron James or Michael Jordan is the greatest player in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Michael Jordan\u2019s a guy that\u2019s a friend of mine,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cPlay golf with him. He\u2019s a really good guy. And I think LeBron is \u2013 maybe he\u2019s a racist but maybe he doesn\u2019t like Trump. I don\u2019t know. But I only like people that like me. So I would say Michael Jordan all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James and Trump have publicly criticized each other over the years. In 2017, James called Trump a \u201cbum\u201d on X, formerly known as Twitter, after the president pulled his White House invitation to the Golden State Warriors who had won the NBA Finals that year.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">U bum <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenCurry30?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@StephenCurry30<\/a> already said he ain&#8217;t going! So therefore ain&#8217;t no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KingJames\/status\/911610455877021697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 23, 2017<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A year later in 2018, Trump criticized both James and journalist Don Lemon after James accused the president of being divisive during an interview.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn\u2019t easy to do. I like Mike!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1025586524782559232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 4, 2018<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>James also endorsed Democrats Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton when they ran against Trump in the past three presidential elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports fans, athletes and celebrities are buzzing with excitement after NBA legend LeBron James announced on Friday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34,18831,69,1002,71,70],"class_list":["post-251625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-donald-trump","tag-lebron-james","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}