- Barkley is an Alabama native and former Republican who supported Doug Jones’s successful senate bid over accused pedophile Roy Moore
- The 54-year-old Hall of Famer: ‘They say [the money is going to] trickle down. I’m going to trickle my fat a** down to the jewelry store and get me a new Rolex’
- Barkley: ‘Thank you Republicans. I know I can always count on you to take care of us rich people, us one percenters… Sorry poor people… y’all ain’t got no chance’
TNT NBA analyst and Hall of Famer Charles Barkley didn’t agree with the Republican Party’s $1.5 trillion tax cut, but since he is one of its beneficiaries, he says he’ll be getting himself a new watch.
‘They say [the money is going to] trickle down,’ Barkley said during TNT’s ‘Inside the NBA.’ ‘I’m going to trickle my fat a** down to the jewelry store and get me a new Rolex.’
An Alabama native and former Republican who supported Doug Jones’s successful senate bid over accused pedophile Roy Moore in the recent special election, Barkley has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump and the G.O.P agenda in recent years.
The 54-year-old Hall of Famer Charles Barkley: ‘They say [the money is going to] trickle down. I’m going to trickle my fat a** down to the jewelry store and get me a new Rolex’
‘Thank you Republicans,’ Barkley laughed. ‘I know I can always count on you to take care of us rich people, us one percenters.’
‘Sorry poor people, I’m hoping for y’all,’ he continued, ‘but y’all ain’t got no chance.’
Barkley was once an outspoken supporter of the G.O.P. in the 1990s, but has on numerous occasions explained that he changed his outlook when the Republicans ‘lost their damn minds.’
The former Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns, and Houston Rockets star has also grown increasingly upset about the turmoil within his home state.
‘At some point we have to stop looking like idiots to the nation,’ Barkley said while campaigning for Jones.
He also took aim at Breitbart’s Steve Bannon, who was campaigning for Moore.
‘Only in Alabama could you send a white nationalist separatist who don’t believe in race mixing to come to Alabama three times and get cheered at a Roy Moore rally,’ Barkley said. ‘That is crazy.’
Known as ‘Sir Charles’ and ‘The Round Mound of Rebound,’ Charles Barkley made a name for himself with the Philadelphia 76ers (right) before guiding the Phoenix Suns to the 1993 Finals
NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley speaks during a get out the vote campaign rally for democratic Senatorial candidate Doug Jones on December 11, 2017