Auburn Basketball Coach Bruce Pearl Attacks ‘Woke’ Kamala Harris In Post Sympathetic To Trump

Head coach Bruce Pearl of the Auburn Tigers gestures during the first round of the 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament versus Yale Bulldogs held at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena on March 22, 2024, in Spokane, Washington. | Source: C. Morgan Engel / Getty

The head coach of one of the top men’s college basketball teams has shamelessly shared the latest evidence that he sympathizes with Donald Trump after authoring a social media post critical of Vice President Kamala Harris and littered with language embraced by right-wing extremists.

Bruce Pearl on Monday morning responded to a social media post by Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton that disingenuously claimed Harris “is so extreme she wants to kick you off the health insurance you get through your job.”

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Pearl, in turn, quoted that post and attacked what he described as Harris’ “socialist, woke progressive beliefs” that he claimed she was “changing” or “hiding” for political purposes. He punctuated his post by adding, notably: “We won’t get fooled again!”

Thank you for pointing this out Senator Cotton, except my guess is that like many of her socialist, woke progressive beliefs she's now changing them or hiding them to get elected! We won't get fooled again! https://t.co/qTuLHxjADV

— Bruce Pearl (@coachbrucepearl) August 26, 2024

Whether true or not, and whether Pearl wants to admit it, his social media post attacking Harris carries the strong suggestion that he supports Trump’s candidacy.

Pearl, a white man who is Jewish, could come under fire for speaking out in such strong terms against the candidacy of a woman who could become the first Black and Asian president of the United States.

Pearl’s race could particularly factor in what is sure to be an ensuing firestorm because of his influential position leading a group of mostly Black young men.

Not for nothing, Cotton posted a screenshot from an NBC News article that was published back when Harris was a presidential candidate in 2019 — well before her historic election to the vice presidency and her current candidacy for the White House.

Cotton’s post referred to her calls back then for “Medicare for all,” a position that she no longer supports in her current iteration as a presidential candidate.

But, as CNN pointed out earlier this month, falsely claiming that Harris is still a proponent of the policy has conveniently become “a Trump campaign attack line.”

In other words, Pearl lashed out at Harris under the falsest of pretenses in what was likely a knee-jerk reaction to promote the MAGA ideals his social media post suggests he upholds.

Pearl has previously taken to social media to express other political opinions.

That includes reacting to the failed assassination attempt on Trump last month when Pearl blamed the political violence in Western Pennsylvania on “the media” and “Justice Dept” in criticisms that echo sentiments espoused by Trump.

Thank God President Trump survived this assassination attempt. His courageous reaction moments after getting shot tells you he is willing to take a bullet and fight for this country. Political violence has been tolerated, the media, Justice Dept, others are complicit https://t.co/EG4QJR9UPf

— Bruce Pearl (@coachbrucepearl) July 14, 2024

Later that same day, Pearl rejected comparisons of Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and staunchly pushed back against a New Republic article that he said suggested “Trump in 2024 is Hitler in 1932” despite the existence of the Republican-led Project 2025 agenda that aims for sweeping restriction and civil freedoms and liberties.

This is going too far! A discussion of differences in policy and direction a President wants to take the country is important, but to suggest Trump in 2024 is Hitler in 1932? Let's all take a timeout! We are the greatest country in the world and we are all better than this! https://t.co/C7NeGC59TI

— Bruce Pearl (@coachbrucepearl) July 14, 2024

Pearl, notably, has also criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for not doing enough to support Israel following a terror attack from the Hama militant group in October.

This is America.

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