Trump Visits Detroit to Court Black Voters—and Flops Big-Time

https://newrepublic.com/post/182788/trump-detroit-black-church-visit

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  1. Everyone fill out this [IRS form](https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf) and file a complaint for the 180 Church to lose their tax exempt status for hosting political campaign activity.

    Edit: I’d like to clarify my stance, I support taxing all churches, not just this one. This one was just an easy target.

  2. >The pastor of the church who agreed to host Trump, Lorenzo Sewell, told MSNBC that people laughed in his face when he attempted to pitch them into attending the event.

  4. I wonder how much they had to pay these people to come to that church?

  6. Love that he is just telling people to vote for him and providing 0 information as to why they should.

  10. I switched to Fox News while he was speaking. It was pretty sad to hear them praise Trump they were bragging how all the black people loved him cause he listens and talks to them. Bragging how he went to “their” neighborhood . They made our seem like the church was filled with his black followers who love him and hate Joe.

    They forgot to mention how most who showed up were white.

  11. Knowing Trump he promised them free watermelon.

  12. All of Trumps recent events are a Potemkin Villages for his voters and the press.

    When they lose the black vote again by the same overwhelming margins they will point back to these events as their evidence of fraud because he was so popular with black voters this time.

  13. “I remember walking down Grand River, a place that is desolate on the west side of Detroit, and walking down the street and just inviting people, saying, ‘The former president is here if you want to come,’” Sewell told MSNBC. “They were laughing like I was when I first was approached.”

    Why would you say this to MSNBC as a Trump supporter??

  14. You can’t expect the same grift to work on the same people twice. While people are stupid, they aren’t all that stupid.

  15. It’s almost as if black voters know a bunch of white racists when they see ’em, huh.

    🙄

    Trump tried something similar in Atlanta circa 2019.

    It was also a flop…

    https://i.imgur.com/y0vrl67.jpeg

    I almost believe it must be something of an inside joke for the Trump campaign, but on the other hand, Trump is such an idiot, he may actually think this is going to work in some way.

  16. He must have gone with Doner instead of Cramblin-Duvet

  18. What did he expect? He wants the masses to think blacks are pro Trump, and they are not.

  19. > Per Russ McNamara of WDET, roughly half the crowd were white. Of the eight Black people who attended that he spoke with, none were congregates of the church.

    > NAACP Detroit Chapter leader and Detroit pastor Dr. Wendell Anthony panned the event, telling MSNBC, “He did not articulate any policy. He articulated the fact that he wanted to come and get some Black votes.”

  20. Of course Satan’s sister Kellyanne Conway lied and said there were 8,000 people. There were just a few of those White Trump supporters taking pics with their phones. You can always spot them because they always have that extra loose skin hanging from their elbows.

  21. Any minority(sexual, religious or racial) and any woman that thinks Trump gives a shit about you is only on an extended trip to La La Land. He hates you. He despises you. You are only a tool. Every psychopath knows how to appear charming and sociable to get what they want. Once he gets it he’s done.

  22. I frequently think about [Obama singing “Amazing Grace” at the funeral of the Mother Emanuel shooting victims in Charleston](https://youtu.be/9W5S1rQtPkg?si=95tUF9Lv72xkj71A). One of my favorite moments from any president in my lifetime. Perfectly met the moment for the church, the community, the state, and the nation.

    This seems like it was basically the exact opposite of that.

    Edit: I’ll note I even know some conservatives who otherwise loathed Obama talk about how wonderful that visit was.

    Edit 2: oh shit, that was exactly 5 years ago.

  23. Many Black folk can spot true intentions of a man because many black peoples (my peoples) are always on guard due to societal treatment. If you’re not real it is easy to tell.

  24. Of course it didn’t go well. He’s racist, everyone knows. Why would he even try this stunt?

  25. The Trump campaign’s increasingly embarrassing efforts to pander to black voters does nothing but illustrate how little respect they have for the intelligence of black people. Gold sneakers, endorsements from felons, getting hugged by some Charlie Kirk employee in a Chick-fil-A, packing a black church with pasty MAGA.

  26. He wasn’t there to court Black voters. He was there to create plausible deniability for white voters ashamed of voting for a racist.

  27. But he said he has black friends so he can’t be racist!

  28. “The black people love courts. I see them in courts all the time. I’m in court all the time. We got a lot in common, me and the black people. This whole made up, crooked Joe Biden witch hunt is backfiring on him because I’m courting the black people, in COURT! I’m playing checkers while sleepy Joe is playing marbles.” – Donald Trump

  29. Did he try hawking those god awful, gawdy shoes of his?

    Or sympathizing with them with his criminal convictions?

  30. Were David Duke or Nick Fuentes busy that day?

  31. 85% of my mom’s family live within a 20 minute walk to this church. Most of my cousins are interracial, and none of the of them nor the AA side of the family attend this church and basically the congregation is less than 12 people. For reference I was there this past weekend.

  32. 250 old white peoples wearing blacks for trump shirts packed into a black church. Classic trump event

  33. The issue they Trump and his sycophants (Kellyann Conway) telling their congregation that 8000 people attended with a large black turn out . Maga now considers this an indisputable and irrefutable magafact. They will use this as proof the election was stolen in Detroit. Donald Trump and his family are malignant tumors and need to be removed

  34. “I’m a convicted felon, so black people should vote for me now” is his actual message to black voters, like it isn’t a Chappelle Show skit or an Onion article.

  35. Everything he does is a grift, a lie, a scam. A truly horrible person without a shred of morals or character.

  36. This whole ploy feels like 2016 in reverse, except instead of Hillary wasting time thinking she can run the score card up in Arizona and make a play in Texas, you now have Trump in full delusion mode attempting to win the black vote in Michigan while ignoring his backside in Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, and Wisconsin where his party’s extremism on abortion is likely to bring out more people than polls anticipate

  37. How much did he pay for the actors? That’s all this Orange POS does and his supporters are so godam stupid

  38. You have to dumb AF to support Trump as a black person. Does anyone doubt for even one second that if this was the 19th century Trump would own slaves, and likely be one of the biggest slave owners in the nation? Dude is *still* calling for the execution of the exonerated Central Park Five. And he doesn’t even try to hide his contempt for black folks. I just don’t get it.

  39. Please vote the GOP out of office. They are harming all of us.

  40. I can’t believe they packed 8000 people into a tiny church! Seems to be against fire code, no?

    /s

  42. >Trump allies praised Trump’s appearance on Saturday at 180 Church as a smashing success, with Kellyanne Conway [claiming](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1802347690065613169) over 8,000 people magically packed into the rows of seats where only a few hundred could have sat, even as many pews remained [empty](https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1802112139500437924). Reuters [notes](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-visit-detroit-church-part-black-voter-push-2024-06-15/) the venue wasn’t at capacity by the time the roundtable began.

    They haven’t given up on “alternative facts” I see. Kelly Anne is such a nasty trash pile.

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