One of the coaches in National Basketball Association, Van Gundy is ashamed of Trump’s victory in US elections.
Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy is also one of the many Americans who condemned and felt ashamed of the election of Donald Trump as the new US president.
Gundy, as an outspoken coach of NBA, joined the number of American citizens who aired non-political views regarding the shocking result of the elections on November 8, Eastern Time.
According to Gunday, he felt that Trump’s bad remarks about women, ethnic minorities and immigrants in the United States during the campaign period would only damage the country.
“It’s embarrassing. I can’t say I’ve ever been ashamed of our country until today,” Van Gundy said. “We just elected an openly brazen racist, misogynist leader,” said Gundy.
Right after the results of the polls, several actors, writers and musicians had expressed their disappointment at the successful election of the Republican candidate
It was clear that many had publicly supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton as president.
“What we have done to minorities and women in this election is despicable. I’m having a hard time dealing with it,” Gundy added.
“We have just thrown a good part of our population under the bus and I have problems with thinking this is where we are as a country,” said Gundy.
Pistons team is mostly African-American.
The team coach added that he felt the US could no longer claim to the world to be a moral leader. Gundy also believed that America is not already qualified to lecture other countries on human rights.
“I don’t want to hear anything from our leaders talking to China or anybody else about human rights abuses,” he said.
“We need to keep our mouths shut and realize we need to be learning maybe from the rest of the world because we ain’t got nothing to teach them.”
Hours after Trump delivered his victory speech, Clinton also gave her concession address in New York City where she admitted it’s hard to lose but she called on the Americans to support Trump.