Rapper and businessman Shawn Carter, better known as Beyoncé's husband, Jay Z, criticized President Trump in a CNN interview with Van Jones Saturday evening. "Everyone feels anger, but after the anger it's really hurtful because he's looking down on a whole population of people and he's so misinformed because these places have beautiful people," Jay Z said of Trump's alleged "shithole" comment about African and Latin American nations.
He went on to liken Trump to a very large bug that grows when an insect infestation is not properly handled:
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