Donald Trump has spent his life degrading and discriminating against Black people.
Trump was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to Black tenants, his rise in Republican politics started when he spread the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama wasn’t born in America, he has praised KKK members, and he attacked a majority-Black district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” Not to mention he drove the Black unemployment and uninsured rate through the roof as president.
Donald Trump failed Black America as president:
- Every single year he was president, Trump proposed budgets that slashed Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and housing and food assistance programs
- Trump tried to repeal the ACA, which would have stripped away health care access for millions of Black Americans and threatened protections for those with preexisting conditions
- In December 2020, the last full month Donald Trump was president, the unemployment rate for Black Americans was 9.9%, and Trump was the worst jobs president in modern American history
- Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations benefited white households by more than double it did Black households
- Trump’s mismanagement during the pandemic hurt Black businesses that didn’t get the support they needed
- Trump told Americans they needed to “get over it” in regards to a school shooting and gave into extremists who pushed to block commonsense gun safety measures
Trump and his allies’ extreme Project 2025 agenda will do nothing for Black America but raise prices, jeopardize their Social Security, and take away their rights:
- Gut the Affordable Care Act, which will raise health care costs and threaten coverage for millions
- Reverse a law that is capping insulin at $35 and lowering prescription drug prices
- End student debt relief that is erasing debt and providing a ladder to the middle class
- Kill billions in funding for infrastructure and climate that benefits Black communities
- Stop the federal government from requiring agencies to address racial inequality
- Cut Social Security and Medicare Black Americans have earned
- End anti-discrimination rules in housing that protect Black Americans and cut federal housing assistance
- Ban abortion nationally and limit common forms of birth control
- Cut Social Security and Medicare
Biden-Harris 2024 Black Media Director Jasmine Harris released a statement on Donald Trump’s agenda for Black America:
“Donald Trump’s plan for Black America can be described in two words: demean and destroy. His record of damaging, insulting, and discriminating against Black Americans spans generations and he has every intention of utilizing the most powerful position in the world to continue doing so. From refusing to rent apartments to Black tenants as a landlord to praising KKK members as president, there is no question that Donald Trump is hellbent on using every position of power available to him to push us back instead of propelling us forward.
“Black Americans have endured enough. We simply cannot afford another Donald Trump presidency.”