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Bradley spoke out after earlier taking a more diplomatic tone
in an interview with a journalist, saying he felt compelled to
be more forthright on the issue.
"I believe what I said but it was too soft," he wrote. "The part
I left out is how sad and embarrassed I am.
"When Trump was elected, I only hoped that the President Trump
would be different from the campaigner Trump. That the
xenophobic, misogynistic and narcissistic rhetoric would be
replaced with a more humble and measured approach to leading our
country.
"I was wrong. And the Muslim ban is just the latest example of
someone who couldn't be more out of touch with our country and
the right way to move forward."
Bradley posted his remarks hours before leading the United
States in a friendly match against Serbia in San Diego.
New Jersey-born Bradley, 29, plays his club soccer for Toronto
FC, which he joined in 2014 after almost a decade playing in
Europe.
He is the first prominent American sportsman to harshly
criticize President Trump's new immigration policy, which has
also been slammed by four-times Olympic champion runner Mo
Farah, a British citizen who was born in Somalia and lives in
the U.S.
President Trump on Friday put a 120-day hold on allowing
refugees into the country, an indefinite ban on refugees from
Syria and a 90-day bar on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The announcement prompted the National Basketball Association to
try to contact the State Department to clarify the situation.
Two NBA players, Thon Maker of the Milwaukee Bucks and Luol Deng
of the Los Angeles Lakers, were born in Sudan.
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by
Mark Lamport-Stokes)
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