On Sunday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, during the show's regular "Gotcha" segment, host Al Sharpton was imagining racist dog whistles as he complained about "unmitigated, racially-tinged cruelty" from Congressman Steve King, and suggested that those who think like the Iowa Republican are "evil."

After playing a clip of Rep. King on CNN's New Day arguing in favor of cutting food stamps and Planned Parenthood to fund the border wall, Sharpton griped: "Just in case you're not evil and this sounds like unmitigated racially tinged cruelty to you, the Congressman elaborated on why he's for this along with job growth: It would save America's waist lines."

Sharpton notably has a history of making blatantly racist comments about Jewish business owners, calling them "diamond merchants" and "white interlopers," and once incited a deadly riot against a Jewish-owned business.

On Sunday's show, after playing a clip of Rep. King arguing that, because there is a problem of obesity among the poor, cutting food stamps would not leave them undernourished, the MSNBC host worked in a "dog whistle" reference: "Congressman, if I were a dog, I'd be going crazy from all the whistles. But I guess with Iowa having the 12th highest obesity rate in the nation, you have good reason to be concerned."

Sharpton also defended Planned Parenthood -- which aborts a disproportionately large number of unborn babies who are black -- as he concluded the segment: