Trump to the Black Conservative Federation: "I'm up here rapping to you guys" and "soup pie cane"?

"When I did the mug shot in Atlanta, that mug shot is No. 1,” he said, adding: “You know who embraced it more than anyone else? The Black population.”

Trumps discomfort is palatable, his uneasiness at this rally says a lot about Trump’s disingenuous support/understanding of ANY American African neighborhoods, 

OTOH

Former President Donald Trump came to South Carolina Friday with a unique message for his followers: There was an unexpected dump, the soup pie cane is broken, and a friend is a person who sticks with you "in times of bad."

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Trump often heralds his improved standing among Black voters on the trail. He won just 8 percent of Black voters nationally in 2020 and 6 percent in 2016, but polls have shown him with increased support, particularly in crucial battleground states.

Former President Donald J. Trump, in a speech to a Black conservative group on Friday night, said he believed that the four criminal cases he is facing have earned him support from Black voters because they saw the historic unfairness of the justice system reflected in his legal woes.

“I think that’s why the Black people are so much on my side now,” Mr. Trump said at a gala hosted by the Black Conservative Federation in Columbia, S.C. “Because they see what’s happening to me happens to them. Does that make sense?”

At another point in his speech, he suggested that Black voters had warmed to him “because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as, I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing.”

Mr. Trump has long used “law and order” to rally his conservative base, as well as coded racist language to attack political opponents. His comments on Friday came in a speech filled with express overtures to Black voters, a group that has overwhelmingly voted Democratic for decades, but whose support he and his campaign are eager to win.

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What in the absolute f*ck pic.twitter.com/UBuN79x7Ep

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Fox News cuts away from Trump speech to brutally fact check him 👇

"The former president is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

Fox News cuts away from Trump speaking in order to fact check the disgraced former president on the economy, gas prices, and the 2020… pic.twitter.com/kgPFxZ1ePN

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