# Trump to attend Black journalists' convention **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [July 30, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016 "2024-07-30T18:06:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/1 "2024-07-30T18:06:56Z")
Just heard on the radio that TFG will be dropping into Chicago to attend the [National Association of Black Journalists Convention](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-attend-national-association-black-journalists-convention-2024-07-30/). As I understand it, he announced his intended appearance yesterday (Mon), and the convention is tomorrow (Wed). Strikes me as a curious appearance, and wondered if any of you had any thoughts about it. Will be interesting to see how he is welcomed, the sorts of questions he is asked, and the responses of attendees. My cynical fear is that he is hoping to either create a clusterfuck - which he will spin as his being treated unfairly. Or he could use it as a photo op to get images of his concern for and interactions w/ Black people. I’m not sure whether I hope it just passes without event/notice, or whether the attendees take advantage of an opportunity to speak truth to power, and refuse to allow their organization to be manipulated. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/2 "2024-07-30T18:13:37Z")
I hope they hold his feet to the fire by asking honest questions about his policies and statements. You know, what journalists are supposed to do. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/3 "2024-07-30T18:39:16Z")
Did they ask him, or did he ask them? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/4 "2024-07-30T18:46:37Z")
I THINK I heard that they generally extend invites to the 2 major candidates. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/5 "2024-07-30T18:59:21Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Did they ask him, or did he ask them? In Dinsdale’s link it already explains it. > The NABJ said in its statement that fellow presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris _was also invited_ to participate in this year’s convention, but that her confirmation is pending. (Emphasis mine.) So both Trump and Harris were invited. Trump agreed, Harris hasn’t yet. > [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > I hope they hold his feet to the fire by asking honest questions about his policies and statements. They claim they will. > Lemon went on to say that the Trump event would allow Black journalists in attendance “to ask the tough questions that will provide the truthful answers Black Americans want and need to know.” Though I agree that saying you will doesn’t necessarily mean you will. There’s a possibility they won’t be too tough because they want candidates in the future to agree to attend without fear of being raked over the coals. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/6 "2024-07-30T19:01:53Z")
[Who will he not recognize](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/963) this time? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/7 "2024-07-30T19:07:32Z")
How _delicious_ it would be, if he were the only bloke in the Hall. Empty building. Except for him, his SS guards, and the caterers. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/8 "2024-07-30T20:01:00Z")
I hope they can get him to clarify which specific jobs he was referring to in the debate when he said migrants were taking “black jobs”. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/9 "2024-07-30T20:29:39Z")
Agriculture, obviously. Because one of the stereotypical migrant worker jobs is harvesting produce from the field, and the stereotypical Black occupation was…well, harvesting produce from the field. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/10 "2024-07-30T20:31:46Z")
It’s a Q&A session, that’s what I expect journalists to do. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/11 "2024-07-30T20:35:06Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > How _delicious_ it would be, if he were the only bloke in the Hall. > Empty building. > Except for him, his SS guards, and the caterers. Everyone else will be in another hall, watching over closed circuit, and laughing their heads off. Then the reaction video of that will be put out on social media. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/12 "2024-07-30T21:30:53Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Agriculture, obviously. Because one of the stereotypical migrant worker jobs is harvesting produce from the field, and the stereotypical Black occupation was…well, harvesting produce from the field The audience will be very relieved to hear that Trump will restore their ability to take on those choice harvesting jobs. I’m sure they’ve been lamenting the fact that they’ve had to resort to taking on white jobs like doctor, lawyer, astronaut, general, President, Vice President, etc. while those migrants get to have all the fun spending 12 hours a day picking crops in the hot sun. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/13 "2024-07-31T19:23:07Z")
See? This is why you invite the guy…paraphrasing because I can’t remember the exact quote:" For many years I knew her as Indian, she was an Indian person. And then she became black. But I didn’t know she was black." > ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/14 "2024-07-31T19:26:17Z")
It’s the main story on The Hill right now, with the headline "Trump mocks Harris’s heritage: ‘She happened to turn black.’ " Yikes, this guy. ETA: it seems he went to this event just to provoke Black people, and show his racist supporters how bravely he stands up to these nasty Black people. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/15 "2024-07-31T19:31:05Z")
Give me a definition of DEI… She recently “became a black person…” “…nasty, hostile tone…” What a freaking tool! I’m wondering if this is an attempt to solidify his support among stupid racists? If you wrote a fictional character saying stuff this stupid, no one would believe it! ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/16 "2024-07-31T19:36:05Z")
I happen to be able to catch this live on MSNBC. I shouldn’t have wasted my time. Complete shit show as expected, it was painful to watch. He was constantly talking over the interviewers. I don’t know if the delay was due to technical issues or due to Trump throwing a temper tantrum because they wanted to fact check him in real time. I’ve heard both. I will confirm that even the interviewers were saying they were having technical issues as the interview was going on. And I’ll say this also, I think Trump doesn’t understand that people can have more than one ethnic heritage? He doesn’t seem to understand that somebody can be both Indian and Black at the same time. Yet another attempt to create divisions among Americans. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/17 "2024-07-31T19:42:22Z")
Well, he succeeded in getting himself “above the fold” on the NY Times website, which might have been his aim after so many consecutive days of Harris being the big news. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/18 "2024-07-31T19:44:08Z")
He screwed the pooch, now. My god that man is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/19 "2024-07-31T19:48:51Z")
Bitching about how he was treated so unfairly in 3… 2… ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/20 "2024-07-31T19:49:02Z")
No, he was trying to say that she is not a descendant of Black American chattel slaves. That she identifies as Asian Indian until she needs black votes, then she is “black”. He is definitely being advised on issues of race within the black community. I actually understand what he is trying to do, as I’ve tried to explain before, but he can’t pull it off because he’s Trump. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016.md?page=2)