Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will venture to Detroit on Saturday to attend a roundtable discussion at a Black church, the latest in an effort to peel away Black voters from President Joe Biden ahead of November’s election.

Trump’s planned visit to a church nestled in the heart of Detroit’s west side has received fierce pushback from local Democrats and the Biden campaign who argued Trump did little as president to improve Black communities nationwide.

Trump has denigrated Detroit in the past as “corrupt,” but both he and Biden have identified Michigan as a must-win state, and the vote there is expected to be as close or closer than it was four years ago.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    137·
    5 months ago

    Oh cool… we get to see which old white man looks more awkward around a bunch of black people singing and dancing!

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      12·
      5 months ago

      I think I would take awkward “how the hell did I end up here?” over “Hey, remember when we used to own them?”:

      or the “double invisible handy”:

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        12·
        5 months ago

        Either way, it will be embarrassing, but I’ll be voting for the guy who doesn’t still insist the Central Park Five are guilty.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        112·
        5 months ago

        Also, it’s sort of around the time of Juneteenth! Juneteenth, MLK day and the first day of February are the three days the media remembers black people exist.

        • Stern@lemmy.world
          22·
          5 months ago

          Two more positive-ish occasions then the LGBT folks, so I suppose they have that going for them, which is nice.

          • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
            101·
            5 months ago

            LGBT folks are catered to A LOT more than black ppl. Mainly because LGBT ppl can be white. Now if you’re brown and LGBT you can’t pretty much fuck off as far as they’re concerned

            • Stern@lemmy.world
              41·
              5 months ago

              LGBT folks have like one day the media remembers (pride month… though really only the first) compared to the black folks three was all I was saying.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        71·
        5 months ago

        He’s an 81-year-old white guy surrounded by black people singing and dancing. I’m thinking frozen might be the best move.

        Imagine if he was trying to dance along.

        • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
          31·
          5 months ago

          This looks fake as fuck lol. He is stiff, but he ain’t that stiff lmao. He’d at least attempt the patented White Man Shuffle

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            41·
            5 months ago

            It’s real, I promise you. And it actually goes on for way longer. It’s very weird. But then Biden is weird.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                61·
                5 months ago

                Oh no question. Which one of them is weirder around black people is not really what will decide my vote, it will just amuse me.