Stevie Wonder did not compete when he returned to his hometown of Detroit, Michigan.
The legendary entertainer appeared to be shading Donald Trump without naming him exactly when Wonder performed at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on October 22.
According to MLive, the singer who grew up in Breckenridge in Detroit said he doesn’t like anyone talking negatively about his city.
“Honestly, I don’t like anyone talking about Detroit,” Wonder told the crowd.
“I don’t care what you have, how much you make. No. Don’t do it. Because, you know, this is a problem, because we’ve never fixed the situation to make it to be fair and equitable.” , but we will. If someone was talking about Detroit, I wouldn’t feel that way,” he continued.
Wonder continued to assure the crowd that the future was in their hands and that he wanted America to love again.
“I want to let you know, you hold the future in your hands. You are the one who will decide what will happen tomorrow. So don’t bother with political games. Let’s start with what they are.” We have to come and let’s make America love again,” he said.
“You know, I’m not stuck in stupidity. You know, because when I hear someone say let’s make it great again, they’re just talking about a group of people. It’s about all we all come together,” Wonder added.
He did not specifically name Trump, however, the statement seemed to allude to what Trump said about Detroit when the Republican presidential candidate said the rest of the country would be like Detroit if the candidate Democratic President Kamala Harris was elected.
“The whole country would be like that, do you want to know the truth? It would be like Detroit. Our whole country would be like Detroit if she were your president. You would have a mess on hand,” Trump said Independence.
“We will not let her do that to this country,” Trump added. We will not let that happen.”
Trump went on to claim that the auto industry in Detroit is “retiring” and that it “used to be a great city.”
Wonder wasn’t the only one to criticize Trump’s comments about Detroit as Eminem, another Detroit native, campaigned for Harris on October 22 by introducing former President Barack Obama at a rally to support Harris. Harris household in the city.
Eminem has also been critical of Trump in the past, criticizing him in the song “Campaign Speech” from 2016, in which he raps, “Run the tap, I’m taking a dip / A bunch of Trump supporters underwater / Sneak in / Ray-Bans in a gray truck with a tan finish / It’s a wrap, like an ACE bandage / Don’t-give-af–k personality, to the last strand of my DNA.”
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