# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/301 "2024-08-01T19:22:57Z")
“Help me out here, Mr. President. What’s the difference between a ‘white job’ and a ‘black job’?” Yeah, yeah, I know … gotchas don’t really work with Trump. But it would be fun to try. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/302 "2024-08-01T19:23:14Z")
I’m quite certain that not all the Black jobs are, umm, field . . . jobs. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/303 "2024-08-01T19:39:26Z")
I believe they did try to immediately call him out and asked “What are Black jobs?” He responded with “any jobs” and quickly kept talking past it. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/304 "2024-08-01T20:22:07Z")
I was hoping someone would ask if POTUS was a black job. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/305 "2024-08-01T20:23:23Z")
Oh, that would have been perfect! ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/306 "2024-08-01T20:23:58Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > He kept on with the whole “I was the best President for black people…” nonsense. **I really wish one of the journalists would have asked him what he means by that.** Like, could he articulate some data that supports that contention? It’s not even a loaded question or anything he could call nasty or disrespectful, but, of course, backed into a corner with nowhere to go, he still probably would have lashed out. One of the journalists did ask him something like, “Even better than Lyndon Johnson, who spearheaded the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act?” IIRC he just ignored them. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/307 "2024-08-01T21:41:24Z")
I follow the author Adam-Troy Castro on Facebook, and he posted this savagely brilliant takedown of Trump (posted with his permission): > **[Adam-Troy Castro](https://www.facebook.com/adamtroycastro/posts/pfbid02bseK3ZmB9rymXwYDWPNcXxwJewSYoj4YM7KhK5zfc1EZzwoEswQ92GkC5RfncfTJl)** > > So there he sat, grumpy and unhappy to be there, knees wide apart and soft tiny hands dangling between them, like vines that had yet to sprout fruit; this terrible man, upset with the world to the... ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/308 "2024-08-01T21:49:38Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > He responded with “any jobs” and quickly kept talking past it. I went back and watched the video again and this was the exchange. “I will tell you that coming, coming from the border, are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking Black jobs. You have the best…” “What exactly is a ‘Black job’ sir?” “A Black job is anybody that has a job, that’s what it is, anybody that has a job…” “All right.” He then went on to talk about “invaders” coming across to steal jobs. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/309 "2024-08-01T21:51:06Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I follow the author Adam-Troy Castro on Facebook, and he posted this savagely brilliant takedown of Trump (posted with his permission): > > [Adam-Troy Castro](https://www.facebook.com/adamtroycastro/posts/pfbid02bseK3ZmB9rymXwYDWPNcXxwJewSYoj4YM7KhK5zfc1EZzwoEswQ92GkC5RfncfTJl) That was great! Thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/310 "2024-08-01T21:51:51Z")
The Onion already had that a week ago [![](https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_645/6d0c260c5d9ca840629022ef7b5002ab.jpg) ](https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_645/6d0c260c5d9ca840629022ef7b5002ab.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/311 "2024-08-01T22:17:28Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > No one said it, but the vibe seems to be This is pretty much the definition of “my unsupported opinion “ ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/312 "2024-08-01T22:25:40Z")
Moderating: This mod note was issued nearly 100 posts ago, but you are still expected to be aware of directives in this thread by moderators: > [@Trump to attend Black journalists' convention](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/214): > > Moderating: To all: split\_p\_j has been directed to cease responding in this thread so as to give other posters a chance to discuss their views, rather than have their view dominating the discussion as it has up to this point. Please respect this directive by not engaging further on the points they have made. Thanks. There’s a dedicated Pit thread if you just can’t resist: Please do not engage with split\_p\_j further in this thread. Take your discussion with them to their Pit thread: > [@I Pit Split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-split-p-j/941620): > > My first pitting! This tool comes out guns blazing in the [Derek Chauvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minnesota-trial-of-derek-chauvin-killer-of-george-floyd-reactions/939024/876) thread claiming to have a smoking gun, but when shown that the gun is actually a steaming turd, just keeps repeating the same nonsense again and again. I’m guessing this guy is about as Black as David Duke. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/313 "2024-08-01T23:26:36Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > sir?” > > “A Black job is anybody that has a job, that’s what it is, anybody that has a job…” Interesting. I have a job. Didn’t know that makes me a ‘Black job’. Another example of his “WTF is he trying to say” where his people have to rush in after the fact and tell you what he really meant. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/314 "2024-08-01T23:53:31Z")
It’s not hard to figure out what he was trying to say. The stumper is why the hell didn’t he say it? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/315 "2024-08-02T00:28:33Z")
“Millions of illegals are crossing the border to become railroad porters.” I think I know why he didn’t say it. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/316 "2024-08-02T00:29:59Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > The stumper is why the hell didn’t he say it? He’s inarticulate and scatter-brained. And I doubt he had a ready answer for that question even though he really should have. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/317 "2024-08-02T00:34:13Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > Perhaps it could be considered aggressive to start by asking him about the insulting language he has used towards people of color, but it wasn’t disrespectful. Trump was the one who used such language and was only being asked about what he was on record saying. Trump was in the wrong place if he didn’t expect to face aggressive questions. It was Trump, however, who turned it disrespectful. Was anybody else reminded of Megan Kelly’s question posed to him during a Republican primary debate? She also listed things he had said and asked him to justify it: “You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals.’ Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?" He also took that as hostile, and his response was similarly personal. “What I say is what I say. And honestly, Megyn, if you don’t like it, I’m sorry, I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me. But I wouldn’t do that to you." > **[​Megyn Kelly and the question that changed her life forever](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/megyn-kelly-and-the-question-that-changed-her-life-forever/)** > > The Fox News anchor talks to Charlie Rose about Donald Trump and his post-debate "obsession" with her ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/318 "2024-08-02T00:36:42Z")
C’mon, we all know Trump isn’t that out of it! Rappers, rapers, crack dealers, pimps, squeegee guys, etc, etc. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/319 "2024-08-02T01:02:25Z")
Like others upthread, I have co-workers who felt that Trump just smoked this interview and put the liberals in their place. Never mind that he didn’t answer most of the questions put to him. Or that he made up stats (50 million migrants crossed in three years?). Or continued with his lyin’ ways. He was great! They really believe this in their hearts. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016/320 "2024-08-02T02:00:53Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > The Onion already had that a week ago The GOPs Schrodinger’s Mexican- at once too lazy to work, and also stealing our jobs. Incidentally, during my US Treasury project working with Migrant farm laborers- not a single one was black- or caucasian. Some proudly mentioned they were citizens. (we were not allowed to ask), They were the hardest working , most honest people I have ever seen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention/1005016.md?page=17)