Associated Press
Donald Trump warned during the debate Thursday and again at a Friday rally that migrants were taking “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs” from Americans, angering critics who called it a racist and insulting attempt to expand his appeal beyond his white conservative base.
While President Joe Biden’s halting debate performance on Thursday night stirred widespread concerns among fellow Democrats about his readiness, Trump also repeatedly made false claims and repeated conspiracy theories that he’s long promoted during his campaign.
Trump suggested without evidence that Democrats want migrants to displace Americans as voters, and he described the state of the nation under Biden as worse than during the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump has often downplayed the racist overtones of the march, once saying there were “fine people on both sides.”
Trump’s depiction of a country on the brink, under siege from unfettered migration and beset by racial strife and economic chaos echoed his longstanding rhetoric about the state of the U.S. It’s a pessimistic vision that has long appealed to the GOP’s largely white, hard-right base but has also alienated other Americans, especially voters of color.
“The fact is that his big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking Black jobs now,” Trump said during the debate on CNN. “They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history,” he warned without specifying the danger.
Yet Trump and his allies believe that such rhetoric may hold greater appeal with Black and Hispanic communities this year dissatisfied with Biden’s performance in office. Trump repeated the comments during a rally Friday in Virginia.
The phrase “Black jobs” was widely condemned by Democrats and Black leaders as vague and insulting.
“I’m still wondering, what is a ‘Black job,’” Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, quipped on Friday during a news conference with former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams in Atlanta.
“There is no such thing as a Black job. That misinformed characterization is a denial of the ubiquity of Black talent. We are doctors, lawyers, school teachers, police officers and firefighters. The list goes on,” said Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP. “A ‘Black job’ is an American job. It’s concerning that a presidential candidate would seek to make a nonexistent distinction. But the divisive nature of this comment is not surprising for Donald Trump.”
Trump’s allies pushed back on the critiques as missing the president’s broader message.
“He meant the jobs of Black people. And we’ve been using that term for a while,” said Diante Johnson, president of the Black Conservative Federation. “It’s any job. Instead of Black people having unlimited accessibility to all types of jobs, illegal immigrants are taking their jobs from them.”
Asked to clarify what Trump meant in describing a “Black job” during an interview with NBC News, Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who is Black and is under consideration to be Trump’s vice presidential nominee, sidestepped the question, instead discussing homeless veterans.
9 comments
Impeach Biden
June 29, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Here we have the left leaning, liberal media on full propaganda mode trying to help Biden after his debacle on Thursday night. This is the same media that has been gaslighting Americans telling all of us that Joe is fine. He is mentally sharp and engaged. It was all a lie. It started with the controlled press conferences, state run mouthpieces, cheat sheets, cue cards, teleprompters and such. Joe and the media got exposed two nights ago. Don’t be fooled
Ocean Joe
June 29, 2024 at 7:23 pm
You’re sidestepping as usual. You ask folks to define the term “woman” in prior posts, now can you tell us what Trump means by “Black jobs” as opposed to white, or some other type of job? Does he mean lower income jobs since that is what immigrants usually start off with? Does he mean the kind of back of the house, out of sight jobs Blacks held at his casinos?
His racism goes so deep he’s not even aware of it.
FSU Frat Boy
June 29, 2024 at 8:08 pm
Oh pulease.
Lee purnell
July 2, 2024 at 11:59 am
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Michael K
June 29, 2024 at 10:02 pm
I heard Trump’s “American Carnage” speech back in 2016. It was shocking. He has a dark, dystopian view of America and says that only he can “fix” it.
His “fix” is simply to blame others: immigrants, BLM, the media, liberals, gays, China (but not his buddy Putin) and “elites.” Everything is for sale: foreign policy, domestic policy, the Supreme Court, and even the National Medal of Freedom. There’s no vision, except more tax cuts for billionaires, “victimhood” for him first, white people second, no choice for women, and rivers of lies.
To all of the parents out there: Do you want your children to look up to a twice-impeached, thrice-married, serial liar, adulterer, convicted felon, con artist – and someone found liable of sexual abuse, fraud (Trump U) and scams (fake foundation), as a role model? Does character no longer matter?
Marconi
June 30, 2024 at 11:04 am
People need to get over themselves. Constantly calling everything racist, in reality, meansd nothing is racist. Stop crying wolf, people have tuned out.
Biden was best friends with a former KKK leader. Biden was opposed to his childred attending racially intergrated public schools.
Get over yourselves and learn the truth.
RUN DONALD RUN
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