Trump Just Revealed the Real Reason Protesters Shut Down Chicago Rally – He May Be Right
Saturday, March 12, 2016 10:59
In the wake of protests that forced him to cancel a planned Friday night rally in Chicago, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the root cause of the anger stoking the actions of Chicago protesters is deep-seated frustration over economic issues.
“I think we have a very divided country, and I think it’s been that way for a long time,” he told CNN Friday night. “It’s very sad to see. Frankly, it’s terrible. People are upset because they haven’t had a salary increase in 12 years. Our jobs are being taken away. I think it’s largely economic.”
Trump said his campaign rhetoric was not to blame as much as was unemployment among African-American youths.
“This has a lot to do with jobs,” Trump said. “It has a lot to do with the incompetent running of a country.”
Trump has spoken out on the issue of black unemployment before.
“President Obama, an African-American, has done a terrible job for African-Americans,” Trump said in January.
“We have an African-American president and the black youth, the African-American youth, has essentially all never done worse. You look at the unemployment in the ’50s. You look at African-American people that are 30 and 35 and 40, in the height of their strength and lives, and they’re doing horribly.”
“Donald Trump will do a great job for African Americans. I’ll bring back jobs to this country from China and many other places, and I’ll let people work and make a great living. I will be great for African-Americans,” he said then.
In June 2015, Trump said black youth are at “a point where they’ve just about never done more poorly, there’s no spirit, there’s killings on an hourly basis virtually in places like Baltimore and Chicago and many other places.”
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