U.S. President Donald Trump and former Los Angeles Lakers forward Metta World Peace. Photo Credit: Scoop B Radio

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Next month will mark a year that U.S. President Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential election. NBA legend Metta World Peace has been vocal about current U.S. President Donald Trump since he’s entered office.

Appearing on Scoop B Radio, World Peace said that if he were the ruler of the free world for a day, he’d institute a simple solution that would unite Trump voters and African Americans.. “I think that I would probably just focus on science,” Metta World Peace told me on Scoop B Radio.

“Let everyone else focus on people who won’t get along. But just focus on education and science and that’ll handle everything.”

During last years Election World Peace started a social media binge on Twitter by tweeting the hashtag #ifmettawaspresident, which were decisions he would make if he became president.

The tweets were deleted but stuff like this are comical.

#ifMettaWasPresident #Dead hahaha pic.twitter.com/SoB9n5XUYz

— Jonathan Kaker (@theKaKeShow) November 8, 2016

You can read the story here via The Post Game’s Jeff Eisenband.

In September, the former Los Angeles Lakers forward told TMZ that President Trump needs to ignore NFL protests and refocus on stopping the violence in Chicago. World Peace also told TMZ that Trump has forgotten the promise he made to clean up Chicago after labeling the violent crime situation an “epidemic” back in June.

World Peace is also an advocate for mental health. While on Scoop B Radio, he stressed that mental health is often ignored. “Mental health is important in all communities,” World Peace told me.

“It’s important to be able to feel comfortable to come out and say you have an issue. And that’s why I’m an advocate, because I feel like if you have an issue you should be able to come out and say that.” 

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Metta World Peace has contributed a lot to culture and the NBA. Drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the 1999 NBA Draft, World Peace played for six different team averaging 13 points a game, winning a championship ring, earning multiple NBA All-Defensive First Team honor and has the distincion of having a unique defensive stance.

No seriously, that patented stance may be as recognizable to hoops junkies as the Heisman Trophy award stance is to the football faithful. Some may say it is Metta being Metta, but honestly in a day and age where everybody is a brand, it’s cool to see a guy from the borough of Queens just be himself.

Shoutout to Queensbrige! Right Craig Sager?

World Peace signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in the offseason. At 10-12, the Lakers are off to an exciting start. Los Angeles, hired Luke Walton as their coach, drafted Brandon Ingram in the offseason and has tapped point guard D’Angelo Russell as the new face of their franchise following the retirement of Kobe Bryant.

World Peace, 37, is a veteran presence for that young Lakers team that also boasts young talent in Julius Randle, Jordan Clarkson, Lou Williams and Timofey Mosgov. “Right now for the Lakers it’s about growing,” World Peace told me by phone last week.

“Right now it’s about having fun and that’s what they’re doing right now, having a lot of fun.”

World Peace is the surely the dean, principal and student of having fun; his personality embodies it. Just last week, he was the focus of a new short-form mockumentary called The 5th quarter by go90.  In a heartwarming episode, titled, “Sylvester,” World Peace who plays himself connects with ten-year-old Sylvester Bass who is blind. Bass got the chance to watch his first – and possibly only – basketball game in-between two risky eye surgeries.

Check It Out Here 

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The human serviette wipes again! Since linking up with i am OTHER, he’s been on a roll. His latest interview is with Metta World Peace, basketball player and illegal elbower extraordinaire. If you’ve ever seen World Peace rap, you probably don’t think he has much to say about hip-hop. Nardwuar shows us that this is untrue. World Peace has been involved in rap since he was Ron Artest, that weird, eccentric guy from Queensbridge. Discussing the weird relationship between hip-hop and basketball, Nardwuar and World Peace give us an interview to remember. Don’t deprive yourself.

Shout out to Hornby Island?

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