Donald Trump claims he is a great friend to Black America. He loves “my African Americans,” he says, and claims to be the greatest president for Black people since Abraham Lincoln. He has pledged to protect “Black jobs” from “illegal aliens,” and that he will bring the factories back to America so that Black men can get good jobs working on assembly lines. Trump, of course, believes that Black Americans love him back: he won 15% of the Black vote in 2024, up from 8% in 2020.
Racism and white supremacy — not “working class” anxiety — lifted Trump to the White House twice. The president is fluent in crude racism and white racist conspiracy theories, and he has been explicit about his role as defender and champion of White America and MAGA.
