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Trump Unveils $ 500 Billion Economic ‘Platinum Plan’ For Black Americans That Will Designate The KKK And Antifa As ‘Terrorist Organizations’ And Make June 18th A Federal Holiday
- In a play for black votes, President Donald Trump promised to designate the KKK, but also Antifa, ‘terrorist organizations’, he announced on Friday.
- The president was in Atlanta for a campaign event aimed at black voters, where he also promised to make June 19th a federal holiday.
- Trump also said he would open up nearly $ 500 billion in capital to black communities, while trying to steal some votes from Democrat Joe Biden.
In a play for black votes, President Donald Trump promised to designate the KKK, but also Antifa, ‘terrorist organizations’, he announced at an event in Atlanta on Friday.
The president will also increase capital for black communities by nearly $ 500 billion, a figure reported by Fox News.
Trump will also push for June 19, the day slavery officially ended in the United States, to be a federal holiday.
In Atlanta on Friday, President Donald Trump promised to designate the KKK, and also Antifa, as a ‘terrorist’ organization and to make June 16th a federal holiday.
President Donald Trump (left) elbows one of his prominent black supporters, Herschel Walker (right)
Members of the audience react to President Donald Trump’s appearance in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday as the president tried to improve his position among black voters.
Trump made the promises less than 40 days before the November presidential election, as he spent Friday trying to reassert support from communities of color, which tend to vote largely Democratic.
Early Friday he participated in a ‘Latinos for Trump’ event at his property in Miami, Florida.
In Georgia, Trump said he will “always put Americans first and that includes very, very important black Americans.”
He spoke at an event in Atlanta, a majority black city and the largest in Georgia, a state that could come into play in the November 3 election.
The speech and a fact sheet provided by the Trump campaign did not detail how Trump would deliver on his promises.
Only Congress has the power to create a federal holiday, but Trump could help introduce a measure for lawmakers to pass.
Calls for a federal holiday on June 19 grew louder this summer as Black Lives Matter protests swept across the country and many organizations gave their workers the day off.
The day is already recognized by 47 states and the District of Columbia.
It marks when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and shared the news that slavery was abolished.
Hawaii, North Dakota and South Dakota do not have holidays or other official observance of the 19th.
Earlier this year, the president had planned to hold his first rally in months on June 16 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which witnessed some of the worst acts of racial violence in the country 99 years ago, but moved it to the June 20 after a protest.
Trump is trailing Democratic opponent Joe Biden in national polls.
Georgia won in 2016, but its lead over Biden in the state has narrowed recently, with a New York Times poll this week showing candidates tied.
More than 85% of black voters belong to or lean toward the Democratic party, according to the Pew Research Center.
Still, Trump told the Atlanta crowd that Biden “doesn’t know African Americans like me.”
