Donald Trump was ridiculed Saturday after attending what his campaign called a Black roundtable at a Detroit church — with photos showing a largely white audience.

Trump’s campaign reached out to the 180 Church to set up the event at which attendees asked a handful of questions before bursting into a rendition of Happy Birthday.

The evangelical church is in the heart of Detroit’s west side and has a mainly Black congregation.

But photos caught by the media, and shared widely online, showed a lot of white people in the audience.

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I’m confused… are people so upset that there’s White people who live in SE Michigan and they happen to go to a building to see Trump?

Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izFU9tLIbao

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What makes you think anyone is upset? Ridicule comes not from people being upset about something, but thinking that this is the dumbest thing they’ve seen in quite a while. Getting ridicule should tell you you need to be a bit more introspective about what you’re doing. And since this is Trump we’re talking about here, we know that shithead isn’t going to be introspective about anything, so we just point out the irony that Trump claims he has “very strong support, so very strong” with the Black community, but can’t seem to find a single Black person to put in his photos of the event.

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I guess the only option here is to literally Youtube, “Blacks Trump”. The general consensus is that Blacks are tired of being fooled by Democrats. They should have taken Malcolm X more seriously /shrug

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29 points

Is this bait, or do you just talk like that?

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The general consensus is that a convicted felon and sex offender and neofascist traitor should not be anywhere near the white house.

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Malcolm X: possibly the most famous American Muslim besides Muhammad Ali. A man who changed his name to el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. A fierce advocate for black liberation and self-determination

Some clown in 2024: I think he would’ve liked the ‘ban all Muslims’ and ‘look at my African-American’ guy

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That’s not the general consensus

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Trump’s side marketed going to a black church and having thousands turn out to support him

It was an attempt to sway the black demographic into supporting him because other blacks do. The pictures paint a different story than what was advertised

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And a literal video… a few videos debunks this trash. So I’m curious, when did you realize you were a victim of mass hypnosis?

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The video shows a “black church” filled with white people. So they either went to a mixed church (that leans white) and called it a black church, or they went to a black church and the majority of people who wanted to go hear him speak were white anyways.

So hes either a liar trying to make it look like black people like him, or black people find him so offensive they wouldnt even go to their own church to hear him speak, allowing the space to be filled with white people.

I suppose there is the possibility black people were prevented from going, and white people were purposefully placed into the crowds but im not sure who would gain from that.

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Agreed! Why are people so upset that Trump took over a Black Church while Promoting how Black People love him while talking to an All White crowd?

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Except it wasn’t an all White crowd. The Youtube video I posted of that event shows a different story than this pitiful waste of time article.

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You’re right. There were 8 black people in attendance, but only 1 of them lived in the area.

If they have to bus in black people to go this black church, how many of the white people do you really think lived in that area?

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No, it’s more that it is another obvious failed attempt at exploiting an image. Remember all those white folk holding placards saying “Blacks for Trump” at rallies? Or, holding a bible (upsidedown) after he stormed a protest to a church (putting his secret service detail in a sweat).

You need to take a peek at what’s going on beyond the projection. It’s pretty obvious.

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That video shows like 70 % to 80 % of the people beeing white. How is are you calling this fake news and then post a link that literally proves the point of the article??

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