Posted on 08/18/2018 8:07:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
The liberal mainstream news media have a narrative about Donald Trump and they do not deviate. The constant refrain is that the President is unhinged, idiotic, tyrannical and especially racist. Recently, the President was labeled a racist when he criticized CNN’s Don Lemon and NBA star LeBron James. Their latest obsession is the new book written by fired White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman.
In the book, Omarosa accuses the President of being a racist and using the “N-word” while hosting The Apprentice on NBC-TV. The President’s inflammatory language was supposedly captured on a tape that has been withheld from the public. Nevertheless, the show’s former producer, Mark Burnett, denied that such a tape exists. The President also tweeted that he doesn’t “have that word in my vocabulary, and never have.”
Despite the denials, the media will continue to focus on Omarosa as a way of damaging the President who they love to hate. According to the Media Research Center, the coverage of the President by the major networks has been extremely biased. At least, 90% of the coverage has been negative, much worse than the positive press they showered on Barack Obama.
In this toxic media environment, it is amazing that a new Rasmussen poll shows that Trump has a 50% overall approval rating. This is higher than Obama’s rating at a similar point in his presidency.
Among the findings is an interesting trend among African American voters. Despite the constant media portrayal of the President as a flaming racist, the August 15, 2018 Rasmussen poll showed that 36% of African American respondents gave the President a positive approval rating. In one year, the President’s African American approval rating increased by 17% in the Rasmussen poll.
This support level is much higher than recent Republican presidential candidates have received. In the last 50 years, the highest level of African American support was received by Richard Nixon in the 1972 election, in which he garnered 18% of the vote, according to national exit polls. Since then it declined significantly to a low of only 4% in 2008.
If President Trump can receive 18% or more of African American votes in the 2020 presidential election, he will score an overwhelming victory. Democrats are petrified of such a scenario, so it will be imperative for party leaders to continue their name calling of Donald Trump. Over the next few years, their constant refrain will be that Donald Trump is a bigot who hates African Americans.
Obviously, the Democrats will work with their ideological partners in the liberal news media to demonize President Trump and portray him as a cruel racist. It is a narrative that will soon ring hollow as African Americans start to enjoy the benefits of the Trump economy.
When more Americans find employment, all races benefit. In fact, under President Trump, the African American unemployment rate has reached a historic low. Since the President took office, food stamp usage has decreased, while home ownership and consumer confidence has increased. When there is robust economic growth, African Americans partake in that success as well.
With the President fighting bad trade deals that shipped jobs overseas, the result will be increased manufacturing and more factory jobs in the United States, benefitting all races, including African Americans. As the stock market has increased over the last 19 months, African Americans have seen their investment and retirement accounts increase in value.
A trend seems to be developing among African American voters who view Donald Trump’s policies as a better alternative than the Democratic Party policies that have led to misery and despair.
In every election, both parties should compete for all votes and no party should have a lock on the support of any community. Unfortunately, over the past few decades, the Democratic Party has taken the African American vote for granted as it has received 90% or more support.
As the urban areas of our country have remained under the exclusive control of the Democratic Party, the results have been horrific. In their communities, millions of African Americans must deal with a high crime rate, blight, gangs, drug trafficking, infrastructure woes, inferior public education, a lack of high paying jobs and extreme poverty.
If the President can provide a roadmap to prosperity for long suffering African Americans, it may start a genuinely constructive political process. True competition for African American votes may take many years to accomplish, but those important first steps may be starting right now.
LOL! Good one.
All well and good, but GO VOTE!
THANKS
The Good Lord above works in mysterious ways. May He continue to bless President Trump and his family.
Leftists should keep their tear buckets handy on election day. I have a feeling they will be filling and emptying them a lot for months (years?) to come afterward.
What the lying news media doesn’t seem to comprehend is the American people are on to them. Trump knows this and that’s why he speaks directly to the people via Tweets. One can only kick the dog so many times before the dog has had enough and bites the kicker (rightfully so). Blacks have been on the receiving end of what the media is now doing to Trump so they can relate and empathize. The leftist ideology is a nest of tangled infections needing a cure. One might think of it as a plate of spaghetti with black mold all over it needing hazmat precautions. President Trump has been that cure so far. I hope he can continue to do so after this election cycle. The job is far from being done.
I think every conservative on FR is fully aware of the depths of corruption and depravity within the upper levels of the various branches of our government and it sickens us to no end knowing we personally can do very little about it. This is why our Hero, President Trump, and those helping him to drain the swamp are so revered. If only Trump had a clone as an AG to fire all the leftist swamp deviants. Heck; I’d settle for someone with balls and a will to try.
Uh oh maybe theyre catching on..
I can not think of another person in human history that has not only withstood but overcome a endless onslaught of contention and opposition as President Trump. Can you?
We see the enemy and it is ourselves.
No I can’t. That is why I believe that his election had Divine intervention.
This will do the trick for Dems -
(Fingers in their ears, chanting)
“BLUE WAVE! BLUE WAVE! BLUE WAVE!”
and have Nate Silver guarantee a 75% surety ...
:^)
They’re finding it out on a daily basis.
You don’t get to THAT level of successful in life by backing down.
Oy, Mate!
Use it in good health!
FDR created his frequent “fireside chats” using the then-new-technology “radio” to speak directly to the American people - and, by the wa -, bypass the existing (very powerful monopoly) print media (newspapers) that were arrayed against his New Deal. Not all newspapers of course, but many. There was no TV to compete with each town’s newspaper editor, no 3-network monopoly of information, no Internet to share information and remember history, and only the black-and-white movie shorts as visuals.
Trump is using Twitter to do the same thing that FDR did in his much-applauded fireside chats.
His followers are using Facebook and internet pages (FreeRepublic, Townhall, WND, Drudge, etc, etc.) to talk among themselves and to reinforce themselves with knowledge otherwise concealed AGAINST the monopoly of today’s national press corpse and the national socialist party’s ABCNNBCBS using them/being used by them.
Omarosa was banished from ‘four jobs in two years’ with the Clinton Administration, though she likes to speak glowingly of her Clinton White House days.
Says Cheryl Shavers, the former Under Secretary for Technology at the Commerce Department, where Omarosa worked several weeks in 2000............ “One woman wanted to slug her.”......At her last one, “she was asked to leave as quickly as possible, she was so disruptive,”
Another former administration official said she was bounced... “because she couldn’t get along with people.”
At her first White House gig of answering invitations received by VP Al Gore,....... “she didn’t do her job, and it got everybody in trouble,” says a former Gore staffer.
Nice pair of Leninist glasses.
Consider because the left always accuses others of what they do with a vengeance. Democrats are tyrannical bigots.
“Peach foty fi”
Took me a minute and then I almost had coffee coming out of my nose from laughing.
Teflon Don. That's got a nice ring to it.
Well if Trump is a racist how come he lets Jews and black in his Palm Beach Club..
As for all Trump voters as being racist...
Most Trump blue collar voters work with Black and Latinos all the time..
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