Trump Mocked For Claiming He's Done More For Black Americans Than Lincoln
President Donald Trump set himself up for ridicule on Wednesday when he suggested he has “done more for Black Americans than anybody with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln.”
The president made the dubious claim after a reporter asked for his reaction to Joe Biden calling him “America’s first racist president.”
"I've done more for black Americans than anybody with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln"
President Trump gave a press conference just hours after announcing he was sending federal law enforcement officers to US cities https://t.co/6FytvGlC0M pic.twitter.com/osSwC8iPkB— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 22, 2020
Since the record of Trump’s antipathy toward Black Americans goes back decades, many people were skeptical that he was the freedom fighter he was claiming to be.
Trump ended today's presser thusly: "I've done more for black Americans than anybody, with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln." Over his 1st term, black unemployment has gone from 7.5% -> 15.4%.
Your periodic reminder that over Obama's 8 years, it went from 12.7% -> 7.5%.— David Swerdlick (@Swerdlick) July 22, 2020
To be honest Trump has united black voters like no other president, but it’s against him.
— pastajoe (@pastajoe5) July 22, 2020
Trump refused to rent to Black Americans until the company was sued under the the Fair Housing Act. In retrospect, that might have been the nicest thing he has ever done for people of color.https://t.co/kimZf6JuWJ
— Jürgen "jkr" Kraus (@jkr_on_the_web) July 22, 2020
There is only one belief on which Trump has never wavered: white supremacy
As a loud & proud racist, he
-refused to rent to Black people
-still stands by his ad-campaign to execute innocent Black men
-stated a judge of Latinx descent cldnt be impartial
-championed birtherism— NotATweeter16 (@NotATweeter16) July 22, 2020
He also said he wasn't racist by saying his administration did Justice Reform as if that was an exclusively "black American" issue that he later added.
He could not hold more racist beliefs in that little noggin'.— Charlie Currie (@CharlieCurrie) July 22, 2020
*Possible* exception - one gassed protesters fighting for black people & says they hurt subdivision home value and the other one freed them from slavery. It’s SO hard to decide which did more good. 🤦♀️
— Jodi Click (@singoffpitch) July 22, 2020
In terms of "doing more"...@realdonaldtrump has caused the deaths of countless African-Americans by mishandling COVID, so there's that.
Further, *Trump wants to deify Confederate soldiers and their related statues and military bases bearing their names.— Res Judicata 22 (@ResJudicata6) July 22, 2020
Trump thinks he has done more for Black Americans in history than even Abraham Lincoln. That must be why black people are writing BLACK LIVES MATTER in giant letters in front of all of his houses.
— JeremyNewberger (@jeremynewberger) July 22, 2020
Just another day. pic.twitter.com/e8x91kY7jP
— MORDE1 ER Nurse CA (@MORDE110) July 22, 2020
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.