--- title: Donald Trump Refuses to Condemn KKK, Disavow Endorsement description: Donald Trump on Sunday refused to condemn the Ku Klux Klan or disavow his recent endorsement by former Klansman David Duke. canonical: https://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-28T15:10:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T17:21:58.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Refuses to Condemn Ku Klux Klan og:description: "I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK?" og:url: https://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b57d6dc88950ac/69887f65196cf4f37403a866/donald-trump-kkk-disavow.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Bentonville, Arkansas og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Refuses to Condemn Ku Klux Klan twitter:description: "I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b57d6dc88950ac/69887f65196cf4f37403a866/donald-trump-kkk-disavow.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Refuses to Condemn KKK, Disavow David Duke Endorsement > Sponsored content. 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Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to supporters after speaking at a campaign rally in an airplane hanger at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport on Feb. 27 in Bentonville, Arkansas. Benjamin Krain—Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:21 PM UTCPublished: Feb 28, 2016 3:10 PM UTC Donald Trump on Sunday [refused to condemn the Ku Klux Klan](https://twitter.com/CNN/status/703946238861910017) or disavow his recent endorsement by former Klansman David Duke. The Republican front runner said he didn’t know enough about Duke to publicly denounce the former KKK leader, who told his followers earlier this week that [voting for anyone but Trump would be “treason to your heritage.”](http://time.com/4237602/david-duke-donald-trump/) “Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists,” Trump said on CNN’s _State of the Union_. “I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists.” “I’m just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here,” Tapper responded. The billionaire businessman [told the political show’s host Jake Tapper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvixzlG-w4&feature=youtu.be) that he’d first need to “do research” on groups in question before saying outright that he didn’t want their support at all. “Certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong,” he said. “Honestly, I don’t know David Duke. I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. I’m pretty sure I didn’t meet him, and I just don’t know anything about him.” However, Trump had spoken out about Duke, recognizing him as a Klansman, in 2000 when he decided to end his exploration of a run for president, according to the New York _Times_. “The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani,” Trump said at the time. “This is not company I wish to keep.” At least one of Trump’s rivals criticized him Sunday for not condemning the KKK. “Really sad. @realDonaldTrump you’re better than this,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wrote on Twitter. “We should all agree, racism is wrong, KKK is abhorrent.” > [](https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/703990847893696512) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Refuses to Condemn KKK, Disavow David Duke Endorsement","datePublished":"2016-02-28T15:10:08.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T17:21:58.000Z","description":"\"I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK?\"","url":"https://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b57d6dc88950ac/69887f65196cf4f37403a866/donald-trump-kkk-disavow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b57d6dc88950ac/69887f65196cf4f37403a866/donald-trump-kkk-disavow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Bentonville, Arkansas","caption":"Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Bentonville, Arkansas","creditText":"Benjamin Krain—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/","name":"Donald Trump Refuses to Condemn KKK, Disavow David Duke Endorsement"}}]}] ```