Donald Trump was ridiculed Saturday after attending what his campaign called a Black roundtable at a Detroit church — with photos showing a largely white audience.

Trump’s campaign reached out to the 180 Church to set up the event at which attendees asked a handful of questions before bursting into a rendition of Happy Birthday.

The evangelical church is in the heart of Detroit’s west side and has a mainly Black congregation.

But photos caught by the media, and shared widely online, showed a lot of white people in the audience.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    Trump’s side marketed going to a black church and having thousands turn out to support him

    It was an attempt to sway the black demographic into supporting him because other blacks do. The pictures paint a different story than what was advertised

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      12 days ago

      And a literal video… a few videos debunks this trash. So I’m curious, when did you realize you were a victim of mass hypnosis?

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        12 days ago

        The video shows a “black church” filled with white people. So they either went to a mixed church (that leans white) and called it a black church, or they went to a black church and the majority of people who wanted to go hear him speak were white anyways.

        So hes either a liar trying to make it look like black people like him, or black people find him so offensive they wouldnt even go to their own church to hear him speak, allowing the space to be filled with white people.

        I suppose there is the possibility black people were prevented from going, and white people were purposefully placed into the crowds but im not sure who would gain from that.