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I’m often perplexed by Black Trump supporters. I mean, these people really watched a sitting president target the Blackest cities in otherwise overwhelmingly white states (Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, etc.) with his election fraud lies and said, “Sure, that’s the president for us.” These Sunken Place stooges watched President Donald Trump popularize the white nationalist propaganda that morphed non-whitewashed Black history into anti-white racism, and they thought, “Let’s put that guy back in office; It’s what MLK would’ve wanted.” These wilful cotton pickers for neo-white supremacy have sat back and watched Trump lie about what DEI initiatives do, framing it as unqualified Black people and women taking jobs away from qualified white men, and they said, “Nah, let’s reelect him. He’ll give us more ‘Black jobs.’”
Right now, barely a full month into his second term, Trump supporters across America are experiencing the FAFO stage of their MAGA messiah’s presidency, especially now that the mass firing of federal employees has affected their jobs and that of their loved ones. When it comes to white Trump supporters, I get it. Trump ran a campaign of white nationalism, white grievance, mass deportation of non-white immigrants and the death of diversity. It would have been easy for them to get so excited they remain oblivious to the degree to which they are voting against their own economic, medical and educational interests. But when it comes to the small minority of Black voters who cast their ballots for Trump, I’m just left wondering: What the hell even fooled you?
Meet Melik Abdul, a GOP strategist and prominent member of the advocacy group “Black Americans for Trump.”
For the second time since Trump was sworn in just over a month ago, Abdul has made an appearance on CNN to complain about things Trump has said or done that anyone who had even taken a cursory glance at Project 2025 (not to mention Trump’s entire first presidency) should have seen coming miles away. This time, Abdul is mad because his friend lost his job.
From Raw Story:
After CNN’s “Table for Five” Abby Philip shared clips of Jesse Watters of Fox News “freaking out” about the federal worker purge after a veteran getting “DOGE’d,” as the Fox host put it, after previously gleefully calling the mass firings “a blessing from heaven above,” Abdul chimed in with a similar story.
“It seems like that Jesse Watters agrees with me that Republicans should stop demonizing federal workers,” he told the panel.
“To his point, I know a guy down in Alabama, first time getting a government job. He had, you know, fresh out of college, had been trying to get a job for a couple of years now, finally got that government job, I think, about six months ago –– well, he’s laid off now,” he reported. “So his kid, his wife, all of that promise, it’s totally gone.”
“And I think your point is right,” he elaborated. “Once people start seeing –– because when we think of federal government, for many anti-government people, they think DMV, meaning D.C., Maryland and Virginia, they don’t see federal government as someone working, living in a rural area of Mississippi, commuting to a job at the Department of Agriculture. They don’t see them as federal workers, which is why it’s always easy to just say, ‘Shut them down, they’ll get paid.’ That’s not how it works.”
Besides the fact that Abdul appears to be suggesting that the mass firings were OK as long as they were only happening in states with big cities as opposed to white Republican rural areas, he seems to be more upset about the firings than he’s ever been about the overt bigotry and compulsive lying that has always been at the forefront of any Trump campaign. Mind you, not two weeks after Trump was sworn in — after he erroneously blamed DEI for last month’s tragic mid-air collision between the American Airlines commercial plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter — Abdul passively complained about those things too, saying that Trump was making it “hard” for his Black supporters to continue supporting him.
“I call it the woke right, on the right, who are were literally saying that, I think the male pilot had 1000 hours, the female, this phantom female pilot had 500 hours of training time. They don’t know anything about what the requirements are. They don’t know how long that person had been in service,” Abdul said at the time. “Donald Trump appealing to these people in his second week, when we’re not talking about the economy, we’re not talking about any of that. We’re talking about DEI and he [Trump] had no evidence and people are out there defending it.”
“I’m not going to get on television to defend it,” he continued. “I want Donald Trump to know you are making it hard for us who are not looking for a payout or some sort of association, or the social media influence behind supporting Donald Trump or any politician. We want to support you because we believe in what you’re doing and when you get out here and do this stuff around, DEI, knowing that this support that he’s gotten from Black people, this uptick, it’s not permanent!”
Bruh, WHERE TF HAVE YOU BEEN?
Trump spent the entirety of his last campaign promising white America he would curb-stomp DEI into oblivion. He spent his first presidency calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization, which is even more insidious now that he has pardoned virtually all of the people convicted in the Jan. 6 terrorist attack that he inspired. And, again, he spearheaded the propaganda-reliant attack on CRT, which became the catalyst for the anti-woke movement. (And don’t think I didn’t notice Abdul using the word “woke” in the same context white conservatives use it in, which is, in itself, a slap in the face to the Black people who created the term.)
Melik Abdul should know better. He’s a Black man with the kind of name that would have had Trump launching a birther campaign against him if he ever tried to run for president.
The delusion of Black MAGA supporters has always been baffling, but Abdul seems to be so especially delusional that he’s seeing Trump’s bigotry and the harm his administration is doing in real-time, and he still seems to be thinking: “Come on, Trump, we’re rooting for you. Do better.”
It’s embarrassing.
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