At an even in Detroit, Michigan, former President Trump touted his work on behalf of Black Americans.
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00:00So, it's an honor to be here, it's a very important area for us, we've done more for, and I say this, I say it proudly, more for the black population than any president since Abraham Lincoln.
00:15That's a big statement.
00:17And Trump has done nothing for you except talk, it's only talk, it's all talk, he gets nothing, he gets nothing for anyone, he was lost in Europe, he's walking around, he doesn't know where the hell he is, he's supposed to help Detroit, I don't think so.
00:36But we achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded, ever, ever recorded during my four years.
00:46We lifted 6.6 million people out of poverty, black Americans saw their largest increase in home ownership on record, there's never been anything like it, this is during our period of time, we gave record funding to historically black colleges and universities, you all know that.
01:06And got great support and I will just tell you a quick story, the heads of the colleges would come to Washington once every year and after two years I said, why do you guys keep coming?
01:16And I liked them, I liked a couple of them, really they're friends of mine, but the whole group was very, they were just terrific people, men and women heading up to colleges and I said, why do you keep coming?
01:29Because they won't give us long term financing, we have to come back every year.
01:33One said, and I said respectfully, he said, they make us feel like a bunch of beggars, we have to come back to Washington every year.
01:39I said, well we're going to take care of that and I got them actually more money than they asked for by far and we got them long term financing and I said, the only thing sad is that I'll never see you again probably, I will never meet you again because we got used to meeting.
01:53I kept saying and then after a couple of years I said, why do you have to keep coming back?
01:57He said, we've been doing this for a long time, for 20 years I guess.
02:03The one gentleman said he was here 20 years, he's been doing it for 20 years.
02:06I said, that's not right.
02:08And they do a very important job and a great job and so I got you long term financing and I think all of them are voting for Trump.
02:19I don't know, I can't say maybe but I'd say 99% of them and if they aren't, I don't know what the hell the other side did but we'll start an investigation or something, okay?
02:30We passed historic criminal justice reform, something that they've been after, people have been after for mostly the black community for years and years and to get it done they needed me and as you know President Obama tried and Biden doesn't even try.
02:46Well, he doesn't have to because we got it done but we're going to get it improved but President Obama tried and was unable to get it done.
02:54You needed conservative votes and I got conservative votes and we got criminal justice reform done.
03:00Nobody else has ever done that and we're very proud of it.
03:06When I left office we had no inflation, gasoline was less than $2, the 30-year mortgage was at 2.6%, the border was secure, wages were rising and the jobs were the best in the history of our country for African-Americans, for black Americans, the jobs were the best in the history of our country.
03:27Other than that, what did I do?
03:29Not that much.
03:31Not that much.
03:33I didn't do that much because they're bad people, you know, that's why they have the fake news, you have the same problem that I do.
03:40They're fake news.