So basically 12 black women. That's how many black women in IL want Trump to send in the troops. What about the 92% who didn't vote for Trump? Just because 8% of black women want Trump to break the law and occupy IL, that makes it right? You are one weird dude.
One political science professor breaks down why Trump's decision to repeatedly insert Black women in conversations in front of cameras is a "deliberate political tactic."
“I see Black women, wearing a red MAGA hat, last night on television [saying] ‘Please let the president come in. My son was attacked, my—’ you have a force of Black women,
Black women, they’re like, only Trump. They want Trump to come in,” he said. “And you see them, they’re all over the place in Chicago. Because they’re afraid to go out, and they don’t want their son or their daughter killed.”
a handful of Black women in the Windy City who have come forward to claim that the president was talking about them.
Vocal groups of Black Trump supporters in Chicago who regularly attend meetings at City Hall to speak out against Democratic leadership over the past two years typically comprise of about a dozen or so people
Regardless, Trump’s decision to repeatedly highlight Black women is peculiar and misguided at best. Black women overwhelmingly supported former Vice President
Kamala Harris nationally in the 2024 presidential election, with 92% of Black female voters casting their ballots for Harris. And Harris
handily won Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago, with 70% of the vote.
One Chicago city council member pointed out to the Tribune that Trump’s decision to repeatedly insert Black women in conversations in front of cameras to justify sending troops to Chicago is exploitive.
Conservative leaders are “using people who look like us to steer a narrative that we all know is not true,” Alderwoman Jeanette B. Taylor said.