Bernice King, the youngest child of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said that she’s “glad” President-elect Trump’s inauguration is on the same day as MLK Day, despite that she didn’t want Trump to win the presidential election, The Independent reported.
“I’m glad that if it was going to happen, it happened on the King holiday because Dr King is still speaking to us,” Bernice King said of Trump’s inauguration, per the outlet.
The Independent wrote that Bernice King “sees the January 20 event as a wake-up call for the country and an opportunity to stand up to the incoming administration’s charged agenda items.”
King believes his presidency may roll back all the progress her parents helped make in America.
“A Trump win could potentially set in motion a perilous and oppressive presidential administration that would undermine and deny the hard-fought battle for civil and human rights for which my parents and so many others sacrificed,” King said, per The Independent.
In August, she knocked the president-elect for his “absolutely not true” claim that he drew a larger crowd at his rally on Jan. 6, 2021, than her father did for his “I Have A Dream” speech on the National Mall in 1963.
“I really wish that people would stop using my father to support fallacy,” she wrote on X, formerly called Twitter.