Popovich says Trump 'brings out the dark side of human beings’

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich continued to speak out against President Donald Trump and in support of the March for Our lives rally before the Spurs faced the Wizards in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night.

When he was asked about this on Sunday, the coach slammed the president for being at his Mar-a-Lago property while more than one million people marched to call for an end to gun violence.

Here's some of what Popovich had to say on Tuesday, per videos from San Antonio Express-News' Jabari Young and The Washington Post's Candace Buckner:

"We're going backwards, at least as far as race is concerned. It has to be pointed out. I think our current president hopes to bore us to death with all these new issues day after day after day that keep him in the news, but you can talk about one comment or scandal after another, and it becomes commonplace, forgotten about, and we don't even know what's going on behind the scenes like what's happening to our environment and health and all this sort of things, all the laws that are sliding and all the people who are being removed and being replaced, like scientists being replaced by politicians and that sort of thing.

"We take our eye off the ball, and he's (Trump) great at it. He's great at it. He brings out the dark side of human beings for his own purpose, which is himself. If it's not pointed out, if people don't stand up and point it out, he will become commonplace, and it's not the world that I want to live in. That's why the kids that have been doing this, that had the march and everything, they give me hope that I'm actually living in the country that I thought I was living in. Because at times, it's not where I thought I was living, but they made me believe, they give you hope for the future that they want to do the right things that have moral clarity and common sense.

"We have a president who sat across a table in a fake environment of goodwill to talk about gun violence, just like the immigration facade where he'd sign anything, and of course he didn't do anything. He actually leaned across the table and told two senators that they were afraid of the NRA. He said that. He just leaned across the table and told them, and laughed about it. Then had lunch with the NRA himself and went back on everything he wanted to do.

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"Is one life more important than some congressman keeping his position because he's afraid he won't get funds of the NRA? It's a dereliction of duty on the part of everybody around Trump. He's who he is. He's actually kind of boring because he's done this all so much. We all know what's coming and we know what lie's gonna happen. That's not very interesting. It's pathetic. But the people around him, they knew when he was a primary, they say all these things about him, they're intelligent, but their position, their power is more important than our children and our grandchildren."