“It’s so insensitive. He should have not have said that. He shouldn’t have said it,” the congresswoman told Local 10.
Wilson told CNN the president’s call to Myeshia Johnson was held on speakerphone as the family and Wilson were driving to the airport to recover Johnson’s remains.
“I asked them to give me the phone because I wanted to speak with him,” Wilson told CNN. “And I was going to curse him out. That was my reaction at that time. I was livid.”
Wilson added that Johnson was already emotionally overwhelmed — she had just learned there could be no open casket at the funeral because of the condition of her husband’s body, Wilson said. Johnson cried during the phone call and thanked the president when it was time to hang up, Wilson said.
BuzzFeed News reached out to the White House, Wilson, and Myeshia Johnson, but did not immediately hear back.
