John Legend goes scorched earth on Trump and reveals why he thinks the former president is a 'tried and true, dyed-in-the-wool racist'

Singer and activist John Legend continued his long-running feud with former President Donald Trump, calling him a 'tried and true, dyed-in-the-wool racist' in an interview Sunday.

Legend, 45 and his wife, model and author Chrissy Teigen, have long professed their disdain for Trump, with the ex-Commander-in-Chief even sniping back once.

Speaking with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, the 'All of You' singer continued his oft-repeated claims that Trump holds racial prejudices when asked about Trump's complaints about the US justice system.

'He's made it clear throughout his life that Black people are inferior, he believes that to his core, in his bones... but also when you hear some of the stray comments he makes, he clearly believes in a genetic hierarchy of humanity and is racially determined, so he is a tried and true, dyed-in-the-wool racist,' Legend said. 

Legend believes this cancels out any benefit the black community may have had under Trump's rule. 

Singer and activist John Legend continued his long-running feud with former President Donald Trump , calling him a 'tried and true, dyed-in-the-wool racist' in an interview Sunday

'I don't want to hear what he says to say about what he's done for black people,' Legend said. 'He's done very little for us and he is at his core, truly, truly a racist.'

Legend was discussing his efforts to push for criminal justice reform and said Trump is, in a way, correct that the justice system is unfair. 

'There is a two-tiered justice system, but not in the way that he thinks. He's the beneficiary, absolutely ... the fact that he's out in the world, that's not normal for a lot of people.' 

'He's gotten away with a lot for a long time, he's been a fraudster for a long time, he's been cheating people for a long time, he's been lying for a long time and he's actually been litigating for a long time,' he added.

Legend - born John Roger Stephens - has been speaking out against Trump since he began running for public office.

His belief that Trump is a racist dates at least to 2016, when he feuded with Trump's son Don Jr, whom the singer was classmates at the University of Pennsylvania. 

The singer even said that he ended his friendship with rapper Ye - formerly Kanye West - over his support of the ex-president. 

Legend even went as far as to once call Trump 'a flaming racist. He's a piece of sh**.' 

Legend and his wife, model and author Chrissy Teigen , have long professed their disdain for Trump, with the ex-Commander-in-Chief even sniping back once

'I don't want to hear what he says to say about what he's done for black people,' Legend said of Trump. 'He's done very little for us and he is at his core, truly, truly a racist'

He and wife Teigen were one of many celebrities who swore they'd leave America if Trump won in 2020.  

Perhaps most bizarrely, the couple's feud with Trump made its way into the 'Twitter files,' a series of reveals regarding liberal bias on the social media platform now known as X.

Trump had referenced the model in his own 2019 tweet, where he tagged her husband, musician, John Legend and referenced his 'filthy mouthed wife.' That prompted Teigen to respond online: 'lol what a p**** a** b****' – in a comment the official said the White House wanted removed.

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) referenced notes of a conversation with Twitter 'whistleblower' Anika Collier Navaroli's counsel, and said that according to the witness, the White House almost immediately contacted her Twitter office 'to demand the tweet be taken down.'

'My supervisors letting us know that we had received something,' she testified about her work on Twitter's safety policy team.

'I do remember hearing that we had received a request from the White House to make sure that we evaluated this tweet and that they wanted it to come down because it was a derogatory statement directed towards the president,' she testified.

Then Connolly teed off. 'I thought that was an inappropriate action by a government official, let alone the White House. But it wasn't Joe Biden about his son's laptop. It was Donald Trump because he didn't like what Chrissy Teigen had to say about him, is that correct?'

Legend and wife Chrissy Teigen were one of many celebrities who swore they'd leave America if Trump won in 2020. They are pictured here at the Comedy Central Roast of Trump in 2011

A Twitter 'whistleblower' testified that the White House sought to have the company take down a 2019 tweet by Chrissy Teigen that called then-President Donald Trump a 'p**** a** b****.' It came at a hearing organized to shine a spotlight on suppression of a report on Hunter Biden's laptop

Yes, that is correct,' she responded. 'My, my, my,' Connolly concluded.

Another lawmaker, Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost, managed to get Teigen's precise tweet into the congressional record.

'Would you like me to give the direct quote?' the witness asked him, prompting him to say he would.

'Please excuse my language, this is a direct quote, but Chrissy Teigen referred to Donald Trump as a "p**** a** b****.'

'Okay, free speech,' Frost responded. 

Teigen responded to a clip of the exchange on the platform Tuesday, writing: 'I…oh my god.'

She also posted a clip on her Instagram account. 'I don’t know how to go on after this,' she wrote.