Rep. Wesley Hunt refuses to apologize when a black man screams at him for supporting Trump: 'How can a black man do this?'

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) refused to apologize for supporting Donald Trump on Monday when a fellow black man accused him of "degrading" himself.

While Hunt was speaking to a group of Iowa caucus-goers in a school gymnasium, a man near the entrance of the gym interrupted the Republican lawmaker just as he invoked his race in a stump speech supporting Trump's campaign.

"How can a black man stand here and talk about a racist?!" the man screamed at Hunt. "How can a black man do this on Martin Luther King Day?"

The crowd loudly booed at the man, who accused Hunt of "degrading" himself for supporting the former president and "turning his back" on his fellow black Americans. Eventually, a group of men from the crowd forcibly removed the man as he continued to shout his objections to Hunt's decision to support Trump.

Hunt later responded to the incident on social media.

"Tonight, at the Timberline Caucus, as I spoke on behalf of President Trump an enraged man attempted to stop my speech. He shouted Trump was 'racist.' You know, the same tired trope we’ve heard over and over again," Hunt said. "But on this day, of all days, Martin Luther King Day, the people of Iowa, just like President Trump judge me not by the color of my skin but by the content of my character.

"The anti-Trump movement is in full blown meltdown," he added.

Hunt is a freshman lawmaker who represents a majority-white district in Houston. Hunt is not blind to the fact that he looks different from the majority of his constituents, but one of his core principles is that what makes America great transcends the identity markers that stratify us.

"A lot of black people, and a lot of people in general, assume that your No. 1 thing is your identity of being black. It’s like 10th for me," Hunt told the Wall Street Journal last year. "I want to get to the point to where we stop talking about it at all."

That spirit was on ful display after Monday's interruption.

"When I walk in rooms like this, I don't see race, religion, color, or creed," Hunt said. "I see my fellow Americans that must join together in the fight to save our country."

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