On Wednesday, President Donald Trump answered questions about his achievements for the Black community during a roundtable with Black business leaders in Atlanta, Georgia.
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00:00I'll say before you leave, Mr. President, I'm a veteran, and we have several veterans here on the panel today.
00:06Of the group of people that I say support you the most, black veterans tend to be with you.
00:11So we're with you, sir. Do you want to talk a little bit about what you've done with the veterans?
00:15Well, I just want to thank everybody.
00:18It was, you know, in fact, if we did it tomorrow, I'd be there.
00:24I'd be there despite tomorrow evening.
00:26It's going to be big.
00:28And they say maybe the biggest.
00:30Somebody said, this will be the highest rated show of all time.
00:33I said, don't tell me that.
00:36I'm not interested in listening to that.
00:39I actually said that to Byron.
00:41I'm not interested in hearing that.
00:43I just want to thank everybody for being there.
00:46You have my support.
00:47You know, we did a tremendous amount.
00:50I wrote it down just a little while ago, knowing I was going to make this call.
00:54Achieved the lowest African-American unemployment rate, the lowest ever.
00:59We delivered the largest small business tax cuts ever.
01:03We lifted 6.6 million people out of the poverty, which is a record.
01:07Black Americans saw their largest increase in homeownership ever.
01:12We gave record funding for historically black colleges and universities.
01:17I actually got them taken care of.
01:19They were really in bad shape.
01:21And we passed it and we did that.
01:23We passed historic criminal justice reform, which nobody else could get.
01:27And when I left office, we had almost no inflation, virtually no inflation,
01:32which is a killer in the black community and every other community, frankly.
01:36And it's just a killer.
01:38We had absolutely the best, most beautiful.
01:41We had very little inflation.
01:43And now the inflation is a disaster.
01:46It's killing the black community.
01:48And it's killing the country, inflation.
01:50It's known as a country buster.
01:52So we did all those things and, you know, nobody else came close.
01:58And we'll do them again and we'll do them even better.
02:01All right, Mr. President.
02:02Thank you.
02:03Thank you, sir.
02:04See you tomorrow.
02:05Thank you all.
02:06Okay.