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History Fact: Trump wouldn’t let black people rent his properties.
Ha!
This ain’t it chief
He’s totally going to drop “I know many black people”. Grandpa should be in assisted living
The guy dropped MLK Day from the list of free admission dates to National Parks. He’s a raging racist, this fools nobody.
From NBC: [Black activists fought for slavery exhibits 24 years ago. The fight returned under Trump. | In the latest turn of events, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration wrongly removed historic panels about people George Washington enslaved at the President’s House in Philadelphia.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-activists-fought-slavery-exhibits-24-years-ago-trump-fight-retur-rcna258827)
From 2017:
Trump spoke Wednesday about Douglass – who died in 1895 – and Martin Luther King Jr. through the context of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the newest Smithsonian museum that opened in 2016.
“I am very proud now that we have a museum on the National Mall where people can learn about Reverend King, so many other things,” Trump said. “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/politics/donald-trump-frederick-douglass
Over/Under on him saying “the Blacks”?
Are we going to hear about how slavery wasn’t so bad and minorities owe white folks for giving them free food & shelter back then?