Black People Don't Love You, Trump, And You Don't Love Us

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Oh. My. GOD. President Donald Trump is essentially the most annoying type of racist.

There isn’t a model of anti-Black bigot that’s as obnoxious because the anti-Black bigot who pivots to “Black good friend” caucasity every time it’s socially or politically handy for them. And that’s all we’ve ever gotten from President “Take a look at my African American over right here” Trump.

Throughout a Tuesday night time rally in Mt. Pocono, Pennsylvania, Trump delivered a speech — in case you can name what he did on that stage a “speech” — that was supposedly an deal with to Individuals’ issues about a phrase he hates and likewise seemingly simply found, “affordability.” However as an alternative of staying centered on the difficulty that even has 37% of his personal constituents questioning his management, he spent most of his time boasting about his many non-accomplishments, badmouthing immigrants from “sh*thole nations,” randomly attacking President Joe Biden, as ordinary, and declaring that “Black folks love me” in a speech that had nothing to do with us specifically.

“Let me let you know — Black folks love Trump. I bought the largest vote. I bought the largest vote with Black folks. They know a rip-off higher than anyone!” Don, the Delusional, claimed.

To start with, I don’t know why Trump insists on telling essentially the most simply fact-checked lies within the historical past of nonsense that solely folks whose household tree is a wreath would consider. The exit polls have been clear in 2024. Former VP Kamala Harris bought 86% of the Black vote, which is just one level down from the 87% Biden bought. In each races, Trump bought roughly 12%, and he has spent his whole second time period to this point eroding that sliver of Black assist.

Secondly, I really want this grand wizard of a president to cease pretending he hasn’t devoted his second time period to addressing white grievance, spreading hate speech towards Somalis and Haitians, barring Black South Africans from migrating right here whereas welcoming their white counterparts with open arms, guaranteeing that his anti-DEI struggle relegates us to no matter he thinks “Black jobs” are, stiffing HBCUs on funding, sending the army into our cities towards the desire of residents and that of metropolis and state leaders, and mendacity about largely fictitious rises in crime to justify it.

In actual fact, when Trump was finalizing his plans to ship the Nationwide Guard into Chicago, unidentified Black girls — together with “a power of Black girls” he noticed on TV, and “lovely Black girls in MAGA hats” — are virtually begging him to ship troops to Chicago. It’s virtually as if Don, the Declining, is totally unaware that Black girls are, by a big margin, the demographic that voted towards him essentially the most 3 times at a median of 92%.

Final yr, whereas Trump was nonetheless campaigning and drowning in authorized woes and indictments, he spoke on the Black Conservative Federation Gala in South Carolina, the place the man who spearheaded the propaganda-reliant assault on vital race idea mentioned Black voters will align with him as a result of he, too, has confronted injustice by the hands of our authorized system.

“I bought indicted for nothing, for one thing that’s nothing,” Trump mentioned on the time. “And lots of people mentioned that’s why the Black folks like me, as a result of they’ve been harm so badly and discriminated towards, and so they truly seen me as I’m being discriminated towards. It’s been fairly superb however probably, possibly, there’s one thing there.”

Right here’s what I wrote about his speech on the time:

White folks stereotyping non-white folks is simply garden-variety American racism that Black persons are so used to that we barely wince at it anymore. However this proper here’s a significantly manipulative type of racism that must be likened to a slave grasp gaslighting slaves by pretending to share of their lack of freedom. Once more, Trump is the orangey-white nationalist who made CRT-bashing standard with Republicans and white conservatives. He additionally issued an government order banning range coaching within the office throughout his presidency, and even now, he’s promising to finish all DEI applications throughout America if he’s elected once more. So, out of 1 facet of his neck, Trump is pretending to search out widespread floor with Black folks as a result of we “have been harm so badly and discriminated towards,” and out of the opposite facet, he’s promising to place an finish to each effort to right racial discrimination, which he has at all times denied or downplayed the existence of till now when it advantages his marketing campaign.

And he’s doing the very same factor this time round.

In his more moderen speech, Trump says Black folks “know a rip-off higher than anyone,” which might indicate that, on some degree, he’s totally conscious of how marginalized we’re. But, this yr, Trump has made it a precedence for his MAGA-fied Division of Justice to undo what little racial progress was achieved underneath Biden.

Oh, wait — right here’s what I beforehand wrote about that:

Trump’s DOJ had beforehand launched an investigation into the College of California over the college’s effort to recruit a racially numerous school. (The horror.) The division has investigated a number of different faculties and universities for related causes.

Different DOJ actions which have been prioritized in Trump’s second time period embrace its choice to finish Biden-era police-accountability agreements with Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky., that got here because of in depth investigations following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. That transfer got here simply someday after it was introduced that the exact same DOJ accepted a virtually $5 million settlement for the household of Ashli Babbitt—the Jan. 6 Capitol rioter who bought herself shot and killed by a Capitol police officer, Lt. Michael Byrd, whereas climbing over a barricade contained in the Capitol constructing that rioters have been warned to not breach. And in April, the Justice Division ended a wastewater settlement for a principally Black Alabama city, falsely calling it “environmental justice as seen via a distorting, DEI lens,” just because environmental racism was addressed within the reaching of the settlement.

I didn’t even point out the DOJ investigating Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for hiring too many Black folks, or the truth that Trump is leaving it to himself and different white conservatives to resolve how a lot Black historical past is an excessive amount of Black historical past, or the truth that, final week, it was revealed that, underneath this administration, the Nationwide Park Service will lower Martin Luther King’s Birthday and Juneteenth, two holidays honoring Black historical past, from its listing of free entrance days subsequent yr.

Even when it have been true that Black folks love Trump, which it demonstrably is just not, the president has made it abundantly clear that he doesn’t love us.

So, please, for the love of all issues holy, hold us out of your butthole-shaped mouth.