Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump seemed a bit surprised Thursday that African-Americans aren’t more insulted and angry over what President Obama has done for the black community in the United States.
“I’ve always been able to bring people together,” Mr. Trump said on CNBC. “And we right now, believe it or not, I mean, we have an African-American president, and I thought one thing. I was not thinking he was going to be a great president because I disagreed with a lot of his views, but I thought he’d be a great unifier, and he turned out to be a great divider.”
“He’s a great divider. There’s tremendous division in this country, whether it’s white and black or so many other things,” Mr. Trump said. “I mean, there’s just tremendous division in this country.”
“And interestingly, as an African-American, look how poor a job he’s done for African-Americans,” he said. “It’s incredible to me. African-American youth is 59 percent unemployed. Even African-American people in the age of 30 to 50, very prime ages, has a very high rate of unemployment.”
“I mean, he’s done very, very poorly for African-Americans, and they should be insulted and they should be angry about it, but they don’t seem to be, which is to me amazing,” he said.
“I am a unifier. I am not a divider, and I think when things settle down and when this very vicious event that’s going on right now is over, I think people will see that,” Mr. Trump said.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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