While there have been countless public figures to come out against our current president, few have done so as passionately as San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich.

Shortly after Trump's election win, Coach Pop told radio show Spurs Nation that he was sick to his stomach that a man like Trump could take the presidency. And during a Spurs media day last month, Pop further blasted Trump and questioned how anyone could have in good conscience voted for him.

Now, while speaking with The Nation's Dave Zirin about Trump's claim that Obama didn't contact the families of fallen soldiers, a lie uttered by the president after he was recently criticized for staying silent on the four Green Berets killed in Niger, Popovich made his opinion of Trump even clearer.

"I want to say something and please just let me talk and please make sure this is on the record."

"I’ve been amazed and disappointed by so much of what this President had said, and his approach to running this country, which seems to be one of just a never ending divisiveness," he said. "But his comments today about those who have lost loved ones in times of war and his lies that previous presidents Obama and Bush never contacted their families, is so beyond the pale, I almost don’t have the words."

Calling Trump a "soulless coward" and "unfit" for office, Popovich came down on others in the Republican party for continuing to tolerate a man like Trump.

"This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks that he can only become large by belittling others," he said. "This has of course been a common practice of his, but to do it in this manner–and to lie about how previous Presidents responded to the deaths of soldiers–is as low as it gets.

"We have a pathological liar in the White House: unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office and the whole world knows it, especially those around him every day. The people who work with this President should be ashamed because they know it better than anyone just how unfit he is, and yet they choose to do nothing about it. This is their shame most of all."

Source: The Nation