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I’m typically perplexed by Black Trump supporters. I imply, these folks actually watched a sitting president goal the Blackest cities in in any other case overwhelmingly white states (Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and many others.) along with his election fraud lies and mentioned, “Certain, that’s the president for us.” These Sunken Place stooges watched President Donald Trump popularize the white nationalist propaganda that morphed non-whitewashed Black historical past into anti-white racism, they usually thought, “Let’s put that man again in workplace; It’s what MLK would’ve needed.” These wilful cotton pickers for neo-white supremacy have sat again and watched Trump lie about what DEI initiatives do, framing it as unqualified Black folks and ladies taking jobs away from certified white males, they usually mentioned, “Nah, let’s reelect him. He’ll give us extra ‘Black jobs.’”
Proper now, barely a full month into his second time period, Trump supporters throughout America are experiencing the FAFO stage of their MAGA messiah’s presidency, particularly now that the mass firing of federal staff has affected their jobs and that of their family members. In the case of white Trump supporters, I get it. Trump ran a marketing campaign of white nationalism, white grievance, mass deportation of non-white immigrants and the dying of range. It might have been straightforward for them to get so excited they continue to be oblivious to the diploma to which they’re voting towards their very own financial, medical and academic pursuits. However in relation to the small minority of Black voters who solid their ballots for Trump, I’m simply left questioning: What the hell even fooled you?
Meet Melik Abdul, a GOP strategist and outstanding member of the advocacy group “Black People for Trump.”
For the second time since Trump was sworn in simply over a month in the past, Abdul has made an look on CNN to complain about issues Trump has mentioned or achieved that anybody who had even taken a cursory look at Undertaking 2025 (to not point out Trump’s whole first presidency) ought to have seen coming miles away. This time, Abdul is mad as a result of his pal misplaced his job.
From Uncooked Story:
After CNN’s “Desk for 5” Abby Philip shared clips of Jesse Watters of Fox Information “freaking out” in regards to the federal employee purge after a veteran getting “DOGE’d,” because the Fox host put it, after beforehand gleefully calling the mass firings “a blessing from heaven above,” Abdul chimed in with an identical story.
“It looks like that Jesse Watters agrees with me that Republicans ought to cease demonizing federal employees,” he instructed the panel.
“To his level, I do know a man down in Alabama, first time getting a authorities job. He had, you realize, contemporary out of school, had been making an attempt to get a job for a few years now, lastly received that authorities job, I feel, about six months in the past –– effectively, he’s laid off now,” he reported. “So his child, his spouse, all of that promise, it’s completely gone.”
“And I feel your level is correct,” he elaborated. “As soon as folks begin seeing –– as a result of after we consider federal authorities, for a lot of anti-government folks, they suppose DMV, that means D.C., Maryland and Virginia, they don’t see federal authorities as somebody working, residing in a rural space of Mississippi, commuting to a job on the Division of Agriculture. They don’t see them as federal employees, which is why it’s at all times straightforward to only say, ‘Shut them down, they’ll receives a commission.’ That’s not the way it works.”
Moreover the truth that Abdul seems to be suggesting that the mass firings had been OK so long as they had been solely occurring in states with large cities versus white Republican rural areas, he appears to be extra upset in regards to the firings than he’s ever been in regards to the overt bigotry and compulsive mendacity that has at all times been on the forefront of any Trump marketing campaign. Thoughts you, not two weeks after Trump was sworn in — after he erroneously blamed DEI for final month’s tragic mid-air collision between the American Airways business airplane and an Military Black Hawk helicopter — Abdul passively complained about these issues too, saying that Trump was making it “onerous” for his Black supporters to proceed supporting him.
“I name it the woke proper, on the best, who’re had been actually saying that, I feel the male pilot had 1000 hours, the feminine, this phantom feminine pilot had 500 hours of coaching time. They don’t know something about what the necessities are. They don’t know the way lengthy that particular person had been in service,” Abdul mentioned on the time. “Donald Trump interesting to those folks in his second week, after we’re not speaking in regards to the financial system, we’re not speaking about any of that. We’re speaking about DEI and he [Trump] had no proof and individuals are on the market defending it.”
“I’m not going to get on tv to defend it,” he continued. “I would like Donald Trump to know you’re making it onerous for us who aren’t on the lookout for a payout or some kind of affiliation, or the social media affect behind supporting Donald Trump or any politician. We need to help you as a result of we imagine in what you’re doing and whenever you get out right here and do that stuff round, DEI, understanding that this help that he’s gotten from Black folks, this uptick, it’s not everlasting!”
Bruh, WHERE TF HAVE YOU BEEN?
Trump spent the whole thing of his final marketing campaign promising white America he would curb-stomp DEI into oblivion. He spent his first presidency calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist group, which is much more insidious now that he has pardoned just about all the folks convicted within the Jan. 6 terrorist assault that he impressed. And, once more, he spearheaded the propaganda-reliant assault on CRT, which grew to become the catalyst for the anti-woke motion. (And don’t suppose I didn’t discover Abdul utilizing the phrase “woke” in the identical context white conservatives use it in, which is, in itself, a slap within the face to the Black individuals who created the time period.)
Melik Abdul ought to know higher. He’s a Black man with the form of title that will have had Trump launching a birther marketing campaign towards him if he ever tried to run for president.
The delusion of Black MAGA supporters has at all times been baffling, however Abdul appears to be so particularly delusional that he’s seeing Trump’s bigotry and the hurt his administration is doing in real-time, and he nonetheless appears to be considering: “Come on, Trump, we’re rooting for you. Do higher.”
It’s embarrassing.
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