On Saturday, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell thanked former President Trump for visiting his church.
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00:00President Trump I'm so humbled that you would be here. President Obama never came to the hood so to speak.
00:07President Joe Biden he went to the big NAACP dinner but he never came to the hood.
00:13So thank you.
00:15Thank you.
00:30Our community is disenfranchised, we're marginalized, we're pushed aside.
00:35And there are two things that are happening with crime and employment.
00:41You're an entrepreneur.
00:43How can you see funding, entrepreneurs specifically keeping the black dollar in the black community?
00:50Let me explain.
00:52If I want to eat I have to give my money to the Albanians at Coney Island.
00:56If you want to get gas you need to go to the Caldeans.
00:59If you want to have your hair look like mine you got to go to Asians.
01:03I thank God for Asians, my wife is right there, she's Asian, our children, our grandchildren.
01:07So I give it up to my Asian brothers and sisters.
01:10But we don't keep the black dollar in the black community.
01:12You're an entrepreneur.
01:14What does it look like for black entrepreneurs to be able to get the resources they need
01:20so we don't look for a handout but a hand up?
01:26And you know when we talk about this you have a lot of dollars in the black community and they don't keep it.
01:32I think one of the biggest problems that I see is the crime, they have to stop the crime.
01:36If they stop the crime you're going to see more and more stores sprout.
01:39And we're losing them in other communities too where there's crime you see empty stores, you see them all.
01:45You see big stores they moved in 10 years ago, there's been millions of dollars to build it and now they're leaving.
01:51And these are not necessarily black communities, in many cases they're not at all.
01:56But where there's crime there's empty stores and you don't keep the money.
02:00So I think the biggest thing we can do is stop the crime.
02:03We have to let people feel free and be able to walk outside and not even think about being mugged or hit or shot or anything.
02:13And you know one of these things, I see the love in this church, it's just incredible what you've done.
02:20You've done an incredible job.
02:21I would like to ask you if you could follow out with a prayer.
02:24Is that okay?
02:26I don't want to get too much pressure because this was not, but I've heard so much about you and so many great things
02:31and it's such an honor to be here, it's such an incredible honor.
02:35And with so many of my friends who are political leaders and are really going places, and he is on the list by the way,
02:41and I don't know if he's going to make it, but he's on a list of a few people, right?
02:45Not too many people.
02:46Would you like to be VP?
02:48Yeah.
02:49Thank you.
02:50Thank you.
02:51You'd be a good one too.
02:56But I'd love to ask you to finish off with a prayer.
02:58Does that make sense?
02:59I would love to pray.
03:00Thank you very much.
03:01Let us bow our heads.
03:02Heavenly Father, we thank you for the 45th president of the United States of America.
03:08He was charged with 34 felonies.
03:12Then he raised $53 million in 24 hours.
03:16He has the potential to be the 47th president of the United States of America.
03:21You have protected him from being seen and unseen.
03:25You have protected his family.
03:27We pray for his wife, his children.
03:30Father, we ask that late in the midnight hour that you would speak to him.
03:35We pray that you might visit him with wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of you.
03:41We ask that even when he deals with complex problems, that you might give him the ability to hear your still, small voice.
03:51Father, we ask that you might lift his hands up so that our country perhaps would be great again.
03:57We believe specifically for black America that you would make black America great again.
04:03Because Lord, we realize we haven't always been this way.
04:07So we pray that righteousness would begin a road like water and justice like a mighty stream.
04:13And we thank you that you're able to do it because we believe that there are promises that you have through this president.
04:19And we believe that you would do exceedingly and abundantly for all that we have.
04:24Think or imagine in this life and in our community.
04:28In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.