Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) tore into President Donald Trump on Monday and dismissed his upcoming State of the Union address by saying it would likely be packed with lies.
During an interview with CNN's John Berman, Bass said she had not yet decided whether she would be attending the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday, but she didn't hold back when describing the reasons why she might not go.
"If I don't go, it is not as an act of protest," she explained. "If I choose not to go, it is really because I don't know whether or not I feel like subjecting myself to listen to the president lie, which I believe he will do."
Bass also said that she was wary of attending the SOTU because of Trump's past insults against minorities.
"I'm sure he will be insulting immigrants with the policy that he's going to put forward," she said. "And I have no doubt that he will come after African Americans since he seems to take every opportunity to do that."
Later in the interview, she slammed Trump for attacking rapper Jay Z, who took the president to task over the weekend for calling African countries "sh*tholes." In particular, Bass said that Trump feels as though black Americans should be bowing down to him because the black unemployment rate has continued falling under his administration -- despite the fact that it continually fell for years under the Obama administration.
"Trump from the first day of his presidency has tried to roll back gains that the African-American population made in the civil rights movement, whether you're talking about voting rights, mass incarceration, you can go down the list, trying to dismantle the civil rights division within the Department of Justice," she said. "He doesn't let a month go by without attacking African Americans. So I think he wants us to be grateful for the fact that our unemployment rate is down, even though it is still twice as high as the unemployment rate for white Americans."
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