Donald Trump conveniently forgets Muslim champions during speech

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On Sunday, Donald Trump was forgetting things all over Twitter.

The Republican presidential frontrunner was on Twitter to criticize President Barack Obama’s speech from the White House, in which the president addressed his strategy for defeating ISIS while calling for Americans to stop discriminating against Muslim Americans.

“Muslim Americans are our friends and our neighbors; our co-workers, our sports heroes — and, yes, they are our men and women in uniform,” Obama said.

Trump immediately took to Twitter to criticize the speech, saying that the president was wrong not to say that the United States is “at war with radical Islamic terrorists.” What’s more, he claimed not to know of any sports heroes who were Muslim.

“Obama said in his speech that Muslims are our sports heroes. What sport is he talking about, and who? Is Obama profiling?” Trump tweeted.

Of course, Twitter was quick to draw Trump’s attention to the fact that not only must he know about several sports greats who were Muslim but he had also met several of them in person, including the great Muhammad Ali. Trump met Ali in person several times and even posted a picture of the two of them together in which he described Ali as a “friend.”

Not to mention the fact that he surely knows Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, Larry Johnson, Mike Tyson and Bernard Hopkins.