When Steve Harvey agreed to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump, he was called everything but a child of God. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Harvey talked about how the infamous meeting was set up and his single biggest regret: not listening to his wife. Marjorie Harvey told her husband to skip the sit-down with Trump and now he wishes he had.

“Now here’s the crazy thing: I’m supposed to be on a boat for my 60th birthday, so my wife says, ‘Steve, just take off [and skip the meeting]. You’ll meet with him some other time,'” Steve recalled. “God, I should’ve listened.”

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Harvey’s friendship with President Obama was part of his motivation to at least try to work with the incoming administration. So when Trump’s team called, Harvey answered.

“…my business partner got a call from the Obama transition team, who said that the Trump transition team would like to set up a meeting,” Harvey said. “The Obama team said they thought it would be a good idea because the president is encouraging dialogue. And I have a relationship with Obama. We’re friends. So I say, ‘OK, cool.'”

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The Black community and many of Harvey’s peers came for Harvey’s neck. They saw his willingness to sit down with Trump after all of the racist and hateful campaign rhetoric as a betrayal. Harvey says he wasn’t ready for what came next.

“The backlash. It was so vicious that it really threw me,” Harvey said. “I was being called names that I’ve never been called: Uncle Tom. A coon. A sellout. Because I went to see this man?”

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Harvey went on to talk about what happened during the meeting with Trump. For the first 20 minutes, they talked about golf. But Harvey then leveled with Trump saying that although he supported Hilary Clinton in the election, he was still willing to help.

Harvey told Trump that he wanted to connect with Dr. Ben Carson, the head of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and find a way to turn failing schools into vision centers where STEM, computers, and coding are taught. Within minutes, Trump had Carson on the phone.

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The good news is that Harvey and Carson are making progress. They have had meetings, set up teams, and are looking to announce a finalized plan for the first vision center by the year’s end. But as far as maintaining any kind of relationship with Trump, Harvey won’t be going down that road again anytime soon.

“No, I haven’t talked to him since,” Harvey said.

Lesson learned.

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In her message she also admitted that when she recently visited the White House, she damn near ‘grabbed them by the ankles’ to beg them not to leave. I suddenly had a vision in my mind, of Taraji turning real ‘Cookie-like’ for a second inside of the White House and actually doing that, LOL…y’all know “Cookie” plays NO games! Anywho, if you’re down with the Obama’s, you may just get a little misty eyed after reading Taraji’s post. Check it out below…

@tarajiphenson: #TBT not so far back. I wanted to grab their ankles and beg them NOT TO LEAVE!!!! 😩😖😂😳 I have a lump in my throat. 😣😥 I HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS EMOTIONAL about a President and First Lady leaving the White House. NEVER!!!! Thank you @barackobama @michelleobama THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE WORLD! Thank you for hope. Thank you for real change!! Thank you for never wavering on faith. Thank you for being a model example of how a strong union between husband and wife can stand side by side STRONG AND FEARLESS against ALL adversities and not be broken or phased……ever 😌. JUST…….Thank you!!!! #my❤ Enjoy your lives you deserve all of life’s sweetness because you gave SO MUCH!!! GOD BLESS YOU BOTH FOREVER!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💋💋💋

Many have expressed Taraji’s same sentiment. Tonight Al Sharpton posted several pics on Twitter of himself attended Michael Moore’s Anti-Trump rally outside Trump Tower in New York…

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Cher spoke at the event and so did Robert DeNiro. The turnout was in the double digit thousands as people shed tears, chanted for Obama, chanted against Donald Trump, sang uplifting music, and vowed to continue to push for change.

As the clock winds down for the Obama era and into the Trump era, we wanna hear from all of our ILOSM family- Obama/Hillary Clinton supporters, as well as Trump supporters:

On a scale of 1-10 (1o being the highest), tell us how much, or how little, faith you have in the unbiased political capabilities of the new President Donald Trump?

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The reason why folks are always so fascinated by Obama’s song lists is because you can tell a lot about a person based on the music they listen to and the President’s song choices further solidifies what we already know but still love to continue to get proof of, that this cat has a whole lotta soul! Check out President Barack Obama’s top 14 Christmas songs below and tell us which ones are your favorite…

1. O Tannenbaum, Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
2. Let It Snow, Boyz II Men
3. All I Want for Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey
4. Santa Clause Is Coming To Town, The Jackson 5
5. 8 Days of Christmas, Destiny’s Child
6. Someday at Christmas, Stevie Wonder
7. The Christmas Song, Nat King Cole
8. Silent Night, Ledisi
9. Do You Hear What I Hear, Yolanda Adams
10. Away In A Manger, Kenny Burrell
11. Santa Baby, Eartha Kitt
12. The First Noel, Frank Sinatra
13. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Luther Vandross
14. Little Drummer Boy, Whitney Houston

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