Rev. Al Sharpton on 56th anniversary of MLK's assassination: "If there's an anti-King, it's Donald Trump.”

Rev. Al Sharpton, on the 56th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, said “anti-King” Donald Trump's actions have helped gut what he and civil rights leaders fought for.

“I really think people need to understand today, 56 years later, what Dr. King and that movement did for America. It literally changed the social dynamics of this country, many of which are under threat today,” Sharpton said Thursday on MSNBC's “Morning Joe.”

“I wouldn't go as far as saying they're the anti-Christ, but they're the anti-King. If there's an anti-King, it's Donald Trump. Because many of the things that Dr. King fought for is and has been destroyed by this Supreme Court and by the policies that Trump and them are putting out,” Sharpton said about Trump and his supporters.

Sharpton criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for rulings in recent years that have rolled back parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and for Trump for peddling his own bibles, arguing that they go against what King stood for.

“When you look at the fact, in the last year, we've lost affirmative action by a right-wing Supreme Court — a ruling that has really hurt voting rights, if not taken the gut out; women's right to choose,” Sharpton said. “This whole movement, that now is waving Bibles, have really removed the moral movement Dr. King stood for.”

King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.