LaVar Ball, the firebrand father of LiAngelo Ball, has brushed off Trump’s role in securing his son’s release from a Chinese prison last week.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday escalated his feud with the father of one of the three UCLA basketball players who was detained in China on suspicion of shoplifting, calling him a « fool. »
LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo Ball, has brushed off Trump’s role in securing his son’s release from China last week, provoking a fiery response from the president.
« It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence – IT WAS ME, » Trump tweeted early Wednesday. « Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. »
Trump then slammed LaVar Ball, 50, as « ungrateful » — the same word he used in a Twitter tirade on Sunday in which he said he « should have left » the players in jail. (The White House later said those tweets were a « rhetorical response » to Ball’s criticisms .)
« LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you, » Trump tweeted.
