{"id":1036149,"date":"2024-06-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1036149"},"modified":"2024-06-20T01:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:58:33","slug":"icymi-on-juneteenth-the-dnc-calls-out-donald-trump-for-his-contempt-for-predominantly-black-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-on-juneteenth-the-dnc-calls-out-donald-trump-for-his-contempt-for-predominantly-black-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: On Juneteenth, The DNC Calls Out Donald Trump For His Contempt for Predominantly Black Cities\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, on Juneteenth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/trump-milwaukee-black-led-cities\/#:~:text=After%20Trump%20lost%20in%202020,%2C%20Philadelphia%2C%20Atlanta%20and%20Milwaukee.\">The Nation<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/top-dem-trolls-trump-for-juneteenth-all-the-cities-you-diss-are-black\">Daily Beast<\/a> reported how Donald Trump for years has repeatedly insulted predominantly Black cities like Milwaukee, Philly, Detroit, Baltimore and Atlanta all while he fails Black voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump continues to call these predominantly Black cities \u201ccorrupt,\u201d \u201cdisgusting,\u201d and says that living in these cities where millions work and raise their families is \u201clike living in Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cTrump is a lot of things but he certainly isn\u2019t subtle\u2014all of the cities he denigrates have one important thing in common: they all have significant Black populations,\u201d DNC Chair Jaime Harrison wrote in a statement to The Daily Beast. \u201cWhether it\u2019s Milwaukee, Philly, Detroit, or Atlanta, Trump isn\u2019t just insulting 97 square miles on a map, he\u2019s insulting Black communities, Black history, and Black voices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s telling us exactly what he thinks of Black Americans, and we\u2019re listening,\u201d Harrison continued. \u201cThat\u2019s why when we go to the polls on Nov. 5, we\u2019re going to vote for someone who respects Black communities, who uplifts Black voices, and who commemorates Black history. We\u2019re going to vote for President Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/trump-milwaukee-black-led-cities\/#:~:text=After%20Trump%20lost%20in%202020,%2C%20Philadelphia%2C%20Atlanta%20and%20Milwaukee.\"><strong>The Nation<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Trump Has Slurred Black-Led Cities Before. In Milwaukee, He\u2019s Paying For It<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Joan Walsh&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This year, Democrats are fighting back, as polls purport to show Trump\u2019s Black support climbing. \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s vicious attacks against cities like Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Baltimore are emblematic of his disastrous attempts to court Black voters,\u201d DNC senior spokesperson Marcus W. Robinson said in a statement. \u201cUnder his presidency, the Black uninsured rate spiked, as did the Black unemployment rate. Black voters aren\u2019t going to forget how disastrous Trump\u2019s term was, and that is why they will once again power Joe Biden back to the White House this November.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>After Trump lost in 2020, he repeatedly blamed cities with large Black populations and leadership for various imagined kinds of voter fraud and wrongdoing. He tweeted: \u201cBiden did poorly in big cities except those of Detroit (more votes than people!), Philadelphia, Atlanta and Milwaukee. Not surprisingly, they are all located in the most important swing states, and are long known for being politically corrupt!\u201d In remarks just after the election, he claimed, \u201cDetroit and Philadelphia\u2014known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country, easily\u2014cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a Presidential race.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He tried, and failed, to invalidate 200,000 votes in Milwaukee and Madison (the state capital has Wisconsin\u2019s second-largest Black population).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Likewise, when the late civil rights hero Representative John Lewis announced that he wouldn\u2019t attend Trump\u2019s inauguration, Trump claimed that Lewis\u2019s home district of Atlanta was \u201cfalling apart\u201d and \u201ccrime-infested.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And during the 2016 race, he falsely said that \u201chalf of all Detroit residents do not work, and cannot work, and can\u2019t get a job,\u201d and blamed \u201ccrooked Hillary Clinton.\u201d At his September debate with Clinton, he went on: \u201cWe have a situation where we have our inner cities, African Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it\u2019s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/top-dem-trolls-trump-for-juneteenth-all-the-cities-you-diss-are-black\"><strong>The Daily Beast<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Top Dem Trolls Trump for Juneteenth: All the Cities You Diss are Black<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Mini Racker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The DNC had a field day with Trump\u2019s reported comment, rolling out ten new billboards around Milwaukee that highlighted what he said. The former president, meanwhile, downplayed the reports, saying on TV that he was \u201calways planning on staying\u201d in Cream City and telling a crowd in Racine, WI, \u201cI love Milwaukee. I was the one that picked Milwaukee.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>According to Census data, Black residents make up the largest share of Milwaukee\u2019s population<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This isn\u2019t the first time the former president has slammed the city. Shortly after losing the 2020 election, Trump namechecked the city, along with others with large Black populations, like Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, as \u201clong known for being politically corrupt!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some of Trump\u2019s most vivid criticisms have targeted the cities with the largest shares of Black residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In a 2019 tiff with the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, who represented Baltimore, Trump called the congressman\u2019s district \u201ca disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,\u201d tweeting about Cummings, \u201cIf he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous &amp; filthy place.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThose people are living in hell in Baltimore,\u201d he added in remarks to reporters days later. \u201cThey&#8217;re largely African American. You have a large African American population. And they really appreciate what I\u2019m doing, and they&#8217;ve let me know it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on Juneteenth, The Nation and the Daily Beast reported how Donald Trump for years has repeatedly insulted predominantly Black cities like Milwaukee, Philly, Detroit, Baltimore and Atlanta all while he fails Black voters. Donald Trump continues to call these predominantly Black cities \u201ccorrupt,\u201d \u201cdisgusting,\u201d and says that living in these cities where millions work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: On Juneteenth, The DNC Calls Out Donald Trump For His Contempt for Predominantly Black Cities\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-on-juneteenth-the-dnc-calls-out-donald-trump-for-his-contempt-for-predominantly-black-cities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-19T17:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-20T01:58:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-on-juneteenth-the-dnc-calls-out-donald-trump-for-his-contempt-for-predominantly-black-cities\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-on-juneteenth-the-dnc-calls-out-donald-trump-for-his-contempt-for-predominantly-black-cities\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: On Juneteenth, The DNC Calls Out Donald Trump For His Contempt for Predominantly Black Cities\u00a0 - 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