MILWAUKEE – Today President Donald Trump posted a racist meme of President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on his Truth Social account. Nick Truog the Chair of the Black Caucus for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin released the following statement:
“It is exhausting for Black Americans to continuously point out the racist actions and policies made by President Trump, his administration, and the elected Republicans who enable and amplify it. His post on Truth Social depicting the never-impeached President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as anything but children of God should not have even been considered in the first place. But this is part of his chaos campaign to draw attention away from the policies he and his administration have enacted, which deliberately halt Black progress and strip our communities of economic opportunity and human dignity. He is attempting to erase Black history by removing our contributions to America from national museums, parks, and federal agencies and has even gone as far as to say that the Civil Rights movement “hurt white people”. This includes any program related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
“The President pushes a racist and divisive agenda that we have continuously warned about and been the victim of. We don’t know what Trump’s next divide-and-conquer ploy will be. But the one thing that is for certain is that they would rather continue their racist circus of manufactured discrimination than make life better for all Americans.”