Hotep Jesus Explains Why Charles Barkley Would Have Been MAGA On Upcoming Episode Of Maintaining With Tyrus

A new episode of OutKick's Maintaining With Tyrus is coming your way, and it features a conversation with author and TV personality Bryan Sharpe, also known as Hotep Jesus.

You can check out the full episode when it drops on Sunday, but here's a taste of what is in store.

One of the things the two touched on was NBA analyst and CNN host Charles Barkley's comments about Black voters who support Trump or, more specifically wear a t-shirt with the former president's mugshot on it, who he said he'd like to punch.

Hotep Jesus argued that if you were to shift time so that what we're experiencing now happened during Barkley's playing days, he'd fall under the MAGA banner.

"Remember," he said. "If we were to take today and move it back to old Charles, Charles would be MAGA."

He said that back in the day, the Charles of old was a way off from the more left-leaning version we know today.

"He was like a Black Republican," Hotep Jesus said.

Tyrus added that in the '90s, Barkley was often the butt of the joke, and was even name-checked by rappers. He noted this was for a couple of reasons, from being married to a white woman to playing in Phoenix.

"(Ice) Cube and everyone was hitting him," Tyrus said. "It was because he played in Phoenix, because for a long time in that era, everything racist was not in Alabama, apparently it was in Phoenix."

Tyrus chalked that up to Chuck winding up on the Suns at the wrong time.

"He was that carbon copy Republican," Hotep Jesus said, before mentioning another name that he thinks would be a Trump supporter in a different era. 

"He reminds me of Eminem. If you took Eminem and blasted him back to the past, he'd be MAGA."

"Oh, yeah," Tyrus agreed. "He'd be boycotted."

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Be sure to check out the entire conversation between Tyrus and Hotep Jesus when the latest episode of Maintaining With Tyrus drops on Sunday, March 17.