Also, Trump Is Either Bad at Math or He’s Lying
Donald Trump continued his attempt to woo African-American voters Friday. Speaking to a largely-white crowd of supporters in Michigan the Republican presidential nominee urged whatever few Black attendees there were to vote for him in November. And he promised the he will be such a great president for African-Americans that they should vote for him now, because, “What have you got to lose?,” he asked.
Trump also, remarkably, promised he will be so popular with African-Americans that when he runs for re-election, he will essentially reverse his current standings with the African-American community.
Trump is currently polling at between 1% and 2% with African-Americans, but he told his audience, “at the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95 percent of the African-American vote. I promise you. Because I will produce.”
Directing his comments to African-Americans, Trump told them they are “living in poverty,” their “schools are no good,” and they “have no jobs.”
“Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?,†he reasoned.
By voting for Trump, African-Americans, and all Americans, would be gaining a President who is either lying about unemployment statistics, or just doesn’t understand them. As TIME pointed out when Trump delivered this same speech earlier this month, his claim that 58% of African-American youth are unemployed is false.
Trump’s numbers include “all African-Americans, beginning at 16 years old, who are in high school, college, graduate school, or otherwise voluntarily out of the workforce,” TIME reports. “The real unemployment rate for African Americans 16 to 19 years old is closer to 31.8%, which is much higher than it should be, but hardly pushing 60%.”
Raw Story notes Trump “exited the rally to the Rolling Stones song ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want.'”
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