Floyd Mayweather, Convicted Abuser, Steps Up to Defend Trump's 'Locker Room' Talk
This week in bad people with bad opinions, boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.—a convicted domestic abuser — thinks there was absolutely nothing wrong with Donald Trump’s “grab ‘em by the pussy” comments.
In case you somehow forgot, in the lead up to the November presidential election, a 2005 interview surfaced of then-reality star Trump speaking to Billy Bush for an episode of Access Hollywood. While awaiting taping, Trump regaled Bush with tales of sexually assaulting women, saying “you can do anything” to women — including “grab them by the pussy” — so long as you’re famous enough.
Trump repeatedly defended the comments, insisting it’d just been “locker room” talk.
Now, nearly a year after the tape’s release, Mayweather thought it would be a good idea to defend our commander-in-chief’s words, telling “Hollywood Unlocked” that’s just how “real men” speak.
“He speaks like real men spoke,” Mayweather said in the video interview, which has since been deleted from YouTube. “Real men speak like, ‘Man, she had a fat ass. You see her ass? I had to squeeze her ass. I had to grab that fat ass.'”
Mayweather didn’t stop there. “So he’s talking locker-room talk,” he said. “Locker-room talk. ‘I’m the man, you know what I’m saying? You know who I am. Yeah, I grabbed her by the pussy. And?'”
Mayweather’s comments are making people furious, especially given the fact that in 2011, a Las Vegas judge sentenced the boxer to 90 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge and pleaded no contest to two harassment charges.
His light sentence was thanks, in large part, to a plea deal he made in order to avoid felony and misdemeanor charges that could have sent him to state prison for 34 years, ESPN reported. Prior to his sentencing, Mayweather had also been arrested for three separate domestic violence incidences, convicted of misdemeanor battery in 2002 and again in 2005. So, perhaps the athlete isn’t best suited to explain how “real men” speak.
Many people were quick to pick up on the hypocrisy of a man with a history of violence against women insisting that Trump’s comments were OK. Immediately after Mayweather’s interview surfaced, Twitter took the boxer — and the president — to task.
“If y’all didn’t want the man in the White House, y’all should have voted the other way,” Mayweather added in the interview. “He did what he had to do, and he got there.” Reminder: Most of America did, in fact, vote the other way.