Trump predicts he can win 95 percent of the African-American vote

[lostinblue 1,989]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hnQAQXSmA

Killary pandering to black folks ...

[Jacque67 7,328]

John ODonnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino and later wrote a memoir about his experience, said Trump blamed financial difficulties partly on African American accountants.

Ive got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza black guys counting my money! ODonnells book quoted Trump as saying. I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else. . . . Besides that, Ive got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And its probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. Its not anything they can control.

Of course, Trump hasnt read ODonnells book, because Donald Trump doesn't read.​ But he did give an interview.

Trump told Playboy magazine that ODonnells memoir was probably true.

For those who believe that racism isnt inherent, but has to be taught. Trump apparently had plenty of opportunities to learngoing back at least to when he was working with his father in the 1970s.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-thinks-black-people-are-lazy

[lostinblue 1,989]

John ODonnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino and later wrote a memoir about his experience, said Trump blamed financial difficulties partly on African American accountants.

Ive got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza black guys counting my money! ODonnells book quoted Trump as saying. I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else. . . . Besides that, Ive got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And its probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. Its not anything they can control.

Of course, Trump hasnt read ODonnells book, because Donald Trump doesn't read.​ But he did give an interview.

Trump told Playboy magazine that ODonnells memoir was probably true.

For those who believe that racism isnt inherent, but has to be taught. Trump apparently had plenty of opportunities to learngoing back at least to when he was working with his father in the 1970s.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-thinks-black-people-are-lazy

Trump has .. what is that word ... you liberals use .. EVOLVED ... Doubt he is racist anymore ...I know he does not black speak when he is in the deep south like Killary does at a NAACP convention and carried a bottle of hot sauce to wave at the first black person she sees ... I think he has evolved

Hillary Clinton's fake Southern accent gets lost in translation

Miss Hill’ry was drawling and dropping “g’s” all over the stage during a speech to Democrats in South Carolina – the Palmetto State.

I was surprised Miss Hill’ry didn’t show up at her campaign rally in bare feet, waving a cast iron skillet and singing Dixie.

Folks, I’m a native of Tennessee – the Volunteer State. And there’s nothing more unpleasant to the ear than a phony Southern accent. It’s downright disrespectful a

bit condescending. But because she’s Miss Hill’ry – the mainstream media laughs off her faux dialect.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/05/28/hillary-clinton-s-fake-southern-accent-gets-lost-in-translation.html

[John Miller 761]

Trump: “Look at what the Democratic Party has done to the city of Detroit. Forty percent of Detroit’s residents live in poverty. Half of all Detroit residents do not work. Detroit tops the list of Most Dangerous Cities in terms of violent crime. This is the legacy of the Democrat politicians who have run this city. This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by Hillary Clinton…. The one thing every item in Hillary Clinton’s agenda has in common is that it takes jobs and opportunities from African-American workers. Her support for open borders. Her fierce opposition to school choice. Her plan to massively raise taxes on small businesses. Her opposition to American energy. And her record of giving our jobs away to other countries.”

[John Miller 761]

Trump has .. what is that word ... you liberals use .. EVOLVED ... Doubt he is racist anymore ...I know he does not black speak when he is in the deep south like Killary does at a NAACP convention and carried a bottle of hot sauce to wave at the first black person she sees ... I think he has evolved

Hillary Clinton's fake Southern accent gets lost in translation

Miss Hill’ry was drawling and dropping “g’s” all over the stage during a speech to Democrats in South Carolina – the Palmetto State.

I was surprised Miss Hill’ry didn’t show up at her campaign rally in bare feet, waving a cast iron skillet and singing Dixie.

Folks, I’m a native of Tennessee – the Volunteer State. And there’s nothing more unpleasant to the ear than a phony Southern accent. It’s downright disrespectful a

bit condescending. But because she’s Miss Hill’ry – the mainstream media laughs off her faux dialect.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/05/28/hillary-clinton-s-fake-southern-accent-gets-lost-in-translation.html

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[John Miller 761]

Outsideof Trump's almost exclusively white campaign event where he pitched himself to black voters in an all white city in Wisconsin. Tht right there tells you what black people have to lose with Trump: Everything they've gained in the last 50 years. Good Luck with that message.

Edited August 20, 2016 by John Miller

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Trump: “Look at what the Democratic Party has done to the city of Detroit. Forty percent of Detroit’s residents live in poverty. Half of all Detroit residents do not work. Detroit tops the list of Most Dangerous Cities in terms of violent crime. This is the legacy of the Democrat politicians who have run this city. This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by Hillary Clinton…. The one thing every item in Hillary Clinton’s agenda has in common is that it takes jobs and opportunities from African-American workers. Her support for open borders. Her fierce opposition to school choice. Her plan to massively raise taxes on small businesses. Her opposition to American energy. And her record of giving our jobs away to other countries.”

And his plan is what exactly? Besides going to an all white neighborhood to tell them about how he plans to reach us?

[ready4ONE 5,400]

I put $1,000.00 on Trump not winning the vote of 95% of African Americans. Any of the Trump minions up for the bet?

I was on the fence as to which fantasy was more likely. Rump getting 95% of the Black vote does seem more realistic than him winning the Presidency but both would be a bad bet without a serious over/under factored in.

[lostinblue 1,989]

And his plan is what exactly? Besides going to an all white neighborhood to tell them about how he plans to reach us?

Has Killary shown up in Milwaukee yet marvin .. .. Trump made it there. Perhaps she is waiting on a few truckloads of hot sauce to hand out ?She has to bribe folks to come see her from what I have heard.

[John Miller 761]

And his plan is what exactly? Besides going to an all white neighborhood to tell them about how he plans to reach us?

When invited to speak to black folk, Trump declines.

Trump declines invite to NAACP convention

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Has Killary shown up in Milwaukee yet marvin .. .. Trump made it there. Perhaps she is waiting on a few truckloads of hot sauce to hand out ?She has to bribe folks to come see her from what I have heard.

You mean the white neighborhood? Is that what you're talking about?

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

This article from the Washington Post does a good job of explaining why Trump prediction won't come true.

It’s hard to imagine a much worse pitch Donald Trump could have made for the black vote

Consider: Black Americans are not "living in poverty" as a general rule. A quarter of the black population is, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, about the same as the percentage of Hispanics. In Michigan, the figure is slightly higher. Most black Americans don't live in poverty, just as most white Americans don't.

Consider: The unemployment rate in the black community is higher than that in the white community, as it has been since the Department of Labor started keeping track. Among young blacks, though, the figure is not 59 percent — unless (as PolitiFact noted) you consider not the labor force but every young black American, including high school students. Many young black high school students are unemployed. This isn't a metric that the Labor Department typically uses, for obvious reasons, but calculating the rates for young whites gives you about 50 percent, too.

Consider: Black voters are perfectly able to evaluate candidates on qualities other than their political parties. Black voters began supporting the Democratic Party heavily thanks to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Since then, they have consistently voted for the party — a party that is one-fifth black and which since 1964 has elected the vast majority of the black members of Congress. (This argument from Al Sharpton in 2004 is worth a read.) Democrats win the support of black voters consistently because those voters like the work that they do and like the fights that they fight

There are any number of reasons that black Americans might view Trump unfavorably, starting with his 2011 effort to cast suspicion on Obama's place of birth. Or, probably, starting with his full-page ad calling for the death penalty against five black teenagers in New York City who were accused of rape — wrongly, as it turned out. Or perhaps thanks to the support his current candidacy is getting from people like former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.

There's no reason to think that Trump's suggestion that black Americans had "nothing to lose" because they "are living in poverty" will do anything to reverse that trend. Nor was his insistence in North Carolina that he should get votes from black voters because "the inner cities are so bad." Some black people, research shows, live in places besides the "inner city."

So why make the argument? It could be, simply enough, that Trump doesn't have anyone in his inner circle that can provide a sense of how to reach out to the black community. One adviser said on CNN that Trump making his appeal in a mostly white town wasn't a big deal and that "maybe it would have been nice if he went and had a backdrop with a burning car." Or maybe Trump was listening to Ben Carson, who in May made a similar argument for Trump: He would only be president for four years, so what could go wrong?

It's likely that Trump's continuing lack of meaningful outreach to black voters keeps him from understanding effective ways of arguing his case. When he went to Baton Rouge to see flood damage, he stopped at a Baptist church with a mostly white congregation.

Or maybe black voters aren't his intended audience. Maybe, with his poll numbers low thanks to soft support from his own party, Trump is trying to convince Republicans that he wants or can earn the black vote. In our most recent poll, one-fifth of Republican men and a quarter of Republican women agreed with the statement that Trump is biased against women and minorities. He gets 90 and 80 percent of the vote from those groups, respectively. Maybe this is an attempt to get them to see him as doing real outreach, even if he isn't.

Of all of the claims Trump made Friday night, though, perhaps none is as laughable as his ultimate prediction.

"At the end of four years, I guarantee you, that I will get over 95 percent of the African American vote," he said. "I will produce for the inner cities, and I will produce for the African Americans. The Democrats will not produce, and all they've done is taken advantage of your vote. That's they've done. And once the election's over, they go back to their palaces in Washington, and you know what, they do nothing for you, just remember it."

Black voters will not give Trump 95 percent of the vote should he be up for reelection in 2020. If he got 25 percent of the vote from black Americans, it would be remarkable. And unless he persuades his own party to support his candidacy, the only one returning to a golden palace after Election Day will be Donald Trump.

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"At the end of four years, I guarantee you, that I will get over 95 percent of the African American vote," he said. "I will produce for the inner cities, and I will produce for the African Americans.

Many think Trump is talking about this election. He is talking about 2020 to get the 95%.

[OriZ 3,157]

Of course it won't happen. Not in 2016, not in 2020 and not in 2036. It's silly to think that it will. I'd put more than $1,000 on that, my risk/reward assessment tells me it's a seriously safe bet.

Edited August 21, 2016 by OriZ