LeBron blasts Trump’s crude ‘trash talk,’ Brady avoids topic
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — LeBron James blasted Donald Trump’s crude remarks about women, calling it “trash talk” while refusing to even say the Republican presidential nominee’s name. Tom Brady walked away from a news conference when asked about the candidate he has previously supported.
The responses Wednesday from two of the biggest superstars in sports showed how much the 2005 video Trump has dismissed as “locker room talk” reverberated through the athletic world, with a href=’https://apnews.com/2bb42dfef5b8473ebb0825399c427403/Athletes-to-Trump:-That’s-not-how-our-locker-room-talks’a growing list of current and former professional athletes/a weighing in on Trump’s vulgar comments about grabbing women’s genitals and trying to have sex with married women besides his own wife.
“What is locker room talk to me? It’s not what that guy said,” James said. “We don’t disrespect women in no shape or fashion in our locker room. That never comes up. Obviously, I got a mother-in-law, a wife, a mom and a daughter and those conversations just don’t go on in our locker room.”
James, who led the Cleveland Cavaliers to the NBA championship last season, said the conversations he’s used to hearing in the dressing room have to do more with family, game strategy and other sports-related banter.