Another day, another cringey attempt from the Trump campaign to court Black voters. When the former president isn’t slinging shoes at Sneaker Con or giving a downright offensive speech at the Black Conservative Federation, he is recruiting Black women to speak on his behalf.
In a video released Wednesday (August 28) entitled “I’m Not With Her,” more than a dozen Black women expressed their support for Trump and shared their overall lack of enthusiasm with Vice President Kamala Harris regarding the upcoming November election.
Bebe Diamond of New York City said in the video, “I and millions of others Black Americans will cast my vote for Donald J. Trump.”
“I support President Trump and the economic policies our country experienced under his leadership as our 45th president,” said a woman claiming to be from Kalamazoo County in Michigan.
Another woman, who doesn’t disclose her name, said that she’s with Trump because of the “economic policies our country experienced under his leadership as our 45th president.”
In a statement to NBC News, the director of the Trump campaign’s Black media Janiyah Thomas insisted that his support from Black folks has never been stronger.
“Black voters have been taken for granted by the Democratic Party for years, but President Trump’s message is resonating at historic levels because he is doing the work and meeting voters where they are,” Thomas explained.
Over the years, Trump’s relationship with the Black community has been parasitic. His attempts to win our support, whether it’s posing for photos with rappers or randomly appearing in Black churches, have been vapid in their execution, and feel even more hollow considering his attacks on Harris that are just straight up racist: Trump has stated that Harris suddenly “turned Black” and recently trashed Black sororities by deeming their events as “very unimportant.”
