John Legend says President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE needs to “apologize for demonizing Muslims” in the wake of last week’s deadly shootings at a pair of New Zealand mosques.

“He needs to apologize for demonizing brown people who have tried to come here and have a better life,” the “Come Together” singer said of Trump in an interview with NowThis published Sunday.

“That rhetoric of invasion, that rhetoric of violence, of scaring white people to think that these brown people are going to rape and kill their families — that rhetoric is inspiring people to do these kind of massacres,” Legend said, referring to the Friday slayings of at least 50 people in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Trump called the massacre “horrific,” offering assistance to the country’s prime minister on Friday, though he told reporters he doesn’t see evidence of any rise in white nationalism worldwide.

On Monday, Trump criticized the “fake news media,” saying some journalists are “working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in New Zealand.” A manifesto from the suspected gunman referred to Trump as a “symbol of renewed white identity.”

“They will have to work very hard to prove that one. So Ridiculous!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

Trump was widely condemned in 2017 after saying there were "very fine people on both sides" of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., where a man attending the rally killed a counterprotester.

“I think what’s clear is that there is an issue around the world, and particularly in this country, in America, when it comes to the evil rhetoric and ideology of white supremacy. This ideology and this rhetoric has been spread, a lot of it on the internet, but a lot of it has been either endorsed or tacitly kind of winked at by our president,” Legend said to NowThis.

“When people of such influence and such stature are endorsing such a hateful and evil ideology it emboldens those who will go out and do something evil and nasty like what happened in New Zealand,” added the 40-year-old Grammy winner — an outspoken and frequent critic of Trump.

Calling white nationalism a “global threat,” Legend said, “A lot of the inspiration is coming from America right now and the American president. Our American president needs to say this is evil, I don’t endorse it, I don’t embrace it, I’m not winking at it, I’m not equivocating about it. This is evil and I speak out against it.”