On Wednesday, President Donald Trump used some of his time at an important press conference to take a shot at Steve Kerr over the Golden State Warriors coach opting to give the situation between the NBA and China more thought before he gave an answer.
Trump said that Kerr “was like a little boy, he was so scared to be even answering the question. He couldn’t answer the question — he was shaking, ‘Oh, oh, oh, I don’t know. I don’t know. He didn’t know how to answer the question, and yet he’ll talk about the United States very badly.”
Kerr, of course, wasn’t shaking like a little boy when he spoke.
On Thursday, Kerr addressed Trump’s comments. The Warriors coach brought up a story about when he and his mom were invited to the White House in 1984 by President Ronald Regan shortly after Kerr’s dad was killed in a terrorist attack.
Kerr’s father, if you didn’t know, was assassinated while serving as the president of American University in Lebanon.
Here’s Kerr’s thoughtful answer, in which he says he was the “shiny object” for Trump to be mad at that day and that Kerr hopes in 2020 we can have someone in office who can bring America back together again:
