In interviews and speeches in recent years, he has compared the Black Lives Matter protest movement to the Ku Klux Klan, and speculated that it will join forces with the Islamic State to overthrow the U.S. government and has said that anti-Trump protesters were “anarchists” who “must be quelled.” Black Americans, Clarke has said, sell drugs “because they’re uneducated, they’re lazy, and they’re morally bankrupt.”