Trump's speech to African American voters wasn't fooling anyone

The Republican Presidential candidate’s exhortation to black people while campaigning in an all-white working class town is the US equivalent of standing in the middle of Anfield trying reach out to Manchester United supporters

You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs! Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed! Give me a chance. What the hell do you have to lose?” Donald Trump yells to a largely all-white crowd urging African-Americans to vote for him.
When a TV anchor gently enquires with Trump's advisor as to why the Republican presidential candidate isn’t speaking to black audiences about black issues, the reply is: “Ok, maybe it would have been nice if he went and had a backdrop with a burning car.”
By all of the metrics most professionals use to determine possible voter turn-out Trump rates something like 0-1 per cent among likely African-American voters. This phenomenal rating has not been achieved since 1948 and needs some kind of Hall Of Fame all to itself.

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The Republican Presidential candidate’s exhortation to black people while campaigning in an all-white working class town is the US equivalent of standing in the middle of Anfield trying reach out to Manchester United supporters. To be kind it’s what’s called in the US a “rookie error”.
But it’s yet another reason, as one friend told me “why more black folks will turn out to vote against Trump, than voted for Obama".
For that working class white audience who had come to hear their plight being addressed and their issues articulated, this must have been peak “wtf”.