“He has a chance to make serious inroads in the black community but not by playing these kinds of juvenile games and setting the people up against their own ministers”
That’s where I respectfully disagree with you. What is so unique about Trump, is he says, the hell with political correctness and the hell with conventional wisdom. The truth is the truth. He talks around all these supposed obstacles to telling the truth. He speaks the truth directly to the people and has enough faith that people are intelligent enough to handle it. When the pundits scratch their heads and wonder why Trump is defying all predictions and succeeding by doing ‘all the wrong things’ this is why. The people respect someone who talks directly to them and who says the truth.
Then Trump should have confronted the black ministers directly about being influenced by BLM or making their attendance contingent on a later endorsement. If he can’t tell it as he sees it face to face he shouldn’t be making insinuations in the press that throw potential supporters under the bus.