Why Mike Tyson was wrong to attend a Donald Trump rally

 

Mike Tyson (right) and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House prior to their departure for a mid-term election campaign rally held at Syracuse, New York State on October 9^th, 2026. Photo credit: Can Hasasu.

Mike Tyson is a boxing legend but often lacking in sound judgment.

I've heard that he likes Trump because Trump supposedly stood by him after his rape conviction. So, he presumably thinks that he is doing the "honourable" and "loyal" thing by supporting Trump at a campaign rally when Trump's poll ratings are at an all-time low.

Personal loyalty can be a good thing, but it can also be an albatross.

Personal friendship and loyalty must have limits.

Trump presides over a regime which:

1. Began an unwinnable war against Iran because Israel insisted that America attack Iran and that America continue the war without Israel.

2. Embarked on tariff warfare with other countries in the world which has cost the United States the trust of other countries and has provided a route to de-dollarisation and the removal of their gold reserves from America.

3.  Presided over a rise in gas prices. The cost-of-living crisis is biting harder among Americans.

4. Threatens other nations like Venezuela who capitulate leaving the US to loot their resources and then have Trump brag about it.

5. Is beholden to the State of Israel which uses money and blackmail to control the US Congress and Trump himself.

6. Is explicitly for "white" supremacy and "white" chauvinism. They interpret every black person in a position of high authority -including the U.S. military - as unmerited so-called "DEI" hires. As retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson once put it: "They don't like black people. Let's be frank about that".

They explicitly hate Muslims too even though Tyson professes to be a Muslim.

Yet Tyson analogises what he refers to as Trump’s “struggles” with those faced by the Black American community at large.

7. Has abandoned the rule of law and any notion of international law. Trump has admitted that he has no morality or sense of limitations except what is in his mind.

8. Has continued what most of the globe know to be a GENOCIDE by Israel in Palestine and the attempt by Israel to extend its borders - both goals of which are consistent with what is the objective of Political Zionism.

9. Is composed of grotesque personalities such as Hegseth, Rubio, Miller etc who are crude and cerebrally limited thugs who possess no qualities expected of statesmen.

Hegseth is a drunk and a sexual predator who belongs to a "Christian" cult beholden to the cause of Zionism. Rubio is in the pocket of Zionist benefactors and a clown of a "foreign minister" whose limited engagement in foreign affairs is encapsulated by Trump's use of two New York real estate brokers to negotiate with Iran, Russia and Lebanon, while the hideous Miller is a Jew who bizarrely utilises Nazi imagery and Goebbelesque language.

Does anyone who is compos mentis see these idiots as the "saviours" of America and the "white race"?

10. Is fiscally and strategically incompetent. The DOGE episode has not prevented a waste in expenditure because of failed or failing military adventures in Iran and Ukraine. America's sovereign debt and continued to rise sharply under Trump. Strategic oil reserves in the US have dipped to a dangerous low, as have munitions, missile interceptors etc leaving the US vulnerable if it had to fight Russia or China.

11. Is extraordinarily corrupt. Trump, who Tyson recently said in an interview was "broke" in 2026, has used his position to enrich himself and his family on a scale far in excess of the corruption of Clinton (Clinton Foundation), Pelosi (insider trading) and others.

Now, Mike may not be aware of much of the above, but he must surely have an inkling that Trump has been a fundamentally bad president who is leading America to the abyss.

© Adeyinka Makinde (2026).

Adeyinka Makinde is a writer based in London, England.