The coincidence of Martin Luther King Jr. Day falling on the same Monday as Donald Trump’s inauguration is no cause for alarm, according to Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights icon. Instead, she views it as an opportunity to reflect on her father’s enduring legacy during a time of national change.
In an interview with MSNBC’s The Weekend, Bernice King expressed optimism about the timing:
“It’s wonderful that this occurs on the King holiday, the inauguration, because it reminds us of King,” said King, who was only five years old when her father was assassinated in 1968. “It points us back to King. It says, ‘When we move forward, we’ve got to do it in the spirit of King.’”
This overlap between Martin Luther King Jr. Day — first observed in 1986 — and Inauguration Day has only happened twice before: during President Bill Clinton’s 1997 swearing-in and Barack Obama’s in 2013. Notably, Obama took his oath of office using King’s Bible.
Despite her past criticisms of Trump’s divisive rhetoric, Bernice King used this moment to call for unity and nonviolence, principles her father championed:
“We have to strategize. We’ve been missing the strategy. We’ve been missing the spirit of Dr. King,” she said. “The spirit of Dr. King is nonviolence. And nonviolence is not just a posture; it’s a mindset. For us, we define it as a love-centered way of thinking, speaking, acting, and engaging that leads to personal, cultural, and societal transformation.”
Her brother, Martin Luther King III, also weighed in, urging Trump to engage with all Americans, not just his supporters. On NBC’s Meet the Press, he said:
“If you said you wanted to be a uniter, then those who didn’t support you, you need to reach out to them or allow them to reach out to you. We’re not reflective of the ‘United’ States of America right this moment, in my judgment.”
The King family has often criticized Trump’s actions, especially his comments comparing the crowd at his January 6, 2021, rally to the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. King delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.
“If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people,” Trump claimed during a news conference.
Bernice King firmly refuted this claim, calling it “absolutely not true.” She added on X: “I really wish that people would stop using my father to support fallacy.”
Trump’s crowd was estimated at 53,000 people, according to the congressional January 6 committee — a fraction of the 250,000 who attended King’s historic address.
The King family has also condemned Trump’s derogatory remarks about African nations, with Martin Luther King III urging Americans to focus on changing Trump’s perspective:
“When a president insists that our nation needs more citizens from white states like Norway, I don’t even think we need to spend any time even talking about what it says and what it is. We got to find a way to work on this man’s heart,” he said during Martin Luther King Day celebrations in 2018.
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