Life-long race-baiter Al Sharpton was up to his old tricks again on Wednesday’s Morning Joe. The MSNBC host and civil rights icon took a shot at President Trump, as he often does, by calling him “a symbol of northern bigotry."

Sharpton was asked to give a year-end review of Trump’s first term and this is what he said:

“I had hopes, despite my fears, that he would grow into the presidency. I’ve known him 35 years, we’ve fought more than we’ve agreed, but we’ve had some areas where he supported Democrats and come to our National Action Network convention. And I said that you grow. At various stages in my life I’ve grown. You try to prove to yourself you were better than people thought you were. But he has done the opposite, to me. 

“Here is a man that has taken the presidency and reduced to name-calling, reduced to trying to exercise his grudges and vengeance, and he’s really prided himself in becoming something that plays to a small segment of America that’s hateful and that’s trying to go to the past. 

“When you think of what he did with Charlottesville; when you think of the ugliness that he said, even on law enforcement, I mean, you begin every day to start saying, ‘He really is not trying to grow and become a president and do something historic.’”

Sharpton said those high hopes included Trump potentially being the “Queens guy” he'd always wanted. Instead, Sharpton claimed Trump “never left” the racist side of Queens that was prevalent in the ’80s. 

Sharpton added:

“He and his father were sued for racial discrimination and who they would rent apartments to. So when you read him in The New York Times being quoted by two sources saying, ‘All Haitians have AIDS,’ ‘Nigerians won’t go home to their huts if we let them in the country,’ it speaks of a man that we in New York knew at various times. Now, the White House has denied it, but it’s certainly not out of the character of what he has said and done.”

“I think a lot of Americans look at civil rights and race relations in the South in the '60s and miss New York in the '80s, where you had many, many incidents, like Howard Beach, then Bensonhurst, and on and on, and they get away with it because they don’t want to talk about up north kind of problems,” Sharpton said. “And Trump symbolizes that. Trump is as much a symbol of northern bigotry as you have others that were southern.”

With Sharpton's checkered past, what symbol does that make him?