Trump faces backlash after criticism of civil rights leader John Lewis during MLK weekend

Rep. John Lewis marches with Martin Luther King in Selma — (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images)

President-elect Donald Trump faces widespread backlash after tweeting Saturday morning that Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) is "all talk, talk, talk — no action or results. Sad!" As observers from across the political spectrum were quick to point out, Lewis is a civil rights leader who marched at Selma with Martin Luther King Jr., who is commemorated in a federal holiday on Monday.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.