On MLK Day, President Trump visited the MLK Memorial and said nothing about MLK. When Trump ran for office, he challenged black voters to support his campaign, claiming that their life in America was in such disarray that they had nothing to lose by backing him. At a rally before a predominately white crowd in Akron, Ohio, a city of with a black population of about 31 percent, Trump launched into one of his more memorable appeals to black voters. His current approval rating with black voters is among the lowest of all ethnic groups: a mere 9 percent, according to Gallup. To most black voters, Pence’s claim about Trump’s immigration policy honoring King is preposterous, and Trump’s initial silence on MLK Day was deafening.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2019 16:01 UTC