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Donald Trump couldn’t name any Muslim athletes?

Last night, Donald Trump livetweeted President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office. One part of the tweetstorm stuck out: Trump’s reaction to the President saying, “Muslim-Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co- workers, our sports heroes.”

Aside from the fact that Trump has himself been photographed with Muhammad Ali numerous times, and even posted an image of the two on his Facebook account, Trump apparently couldn’t recall any Muslim athletes.

Here are 38 Muslim athletes, as a memory refresher for Donald Trump:

1) Muhammad Ali, boxer

2) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball

3-4) Hakeem Olajuwon and Shaquille O’Neal, basketball

5) Ahmad Rashad, football

6) Muhammad Wilkerson, football

7) Aqib Talib, football

8) Karim Benzema, soccer

9) Edin Dzeko, soccer

10) Mesut Ozil, soccer

11) Mike Tyson, boxing

12) Shareef Abdur-Rahim, basketball

13) Rasheed Wallace, basketball

14) Larry Johnson, basketball

15) Hedo Turkoglu, basketball

16) Bernard Hopkins, boxing

17) Amir Khan, boxing

18) Nail Yakupov, hockey

19) Marat Safin, tennis

20) Rashaan Salaam, football

21) Khabib Nurmagomedov, mixed martial arts

22) Marouane Fellaini, soccer

23) Kenneth Faried, basketball

24) Zinedine Zidane, soccer

25) Franck Ribery, soccer

26) Ersan Ilyasova, basketball

27) Omer Asik, basketball

28) Mirza Teletovic, basketball

29) Husain Abdullah, football

30) Mohamed Sanu, football

31) Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, basketball

 

32) Kulsoom Abdullah, weightlifting

33) Imran Khan, cricket

34) Mona Seraji, snowboarding

35) Tirfi Tsegaye, marathon

36) Leyla Rajabi, Olympic shot-putter

37) Sarah Attar, Olympic sprinter

38) Zahra Lari, ice skating

 

…THAT GOOD ENOUGH DONALD? NEED SOME MORE?