Black Republicans feel left out of Trump's 2nd-term picks

[Yavin4]

As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet and chooses his closet advisers ahead of Inauguration Day, many African American leaders are asking why more Black people haven't been appointed to key positions.

ABC News spoke to more than a half dozen longtime and new African American conservatives and Republicans within Trumpworld, in and outside of Washington.

Last month, the president-elect appointed Scott Turner, who was executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump's first term, to serve as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/black-republicans-feel-left-trumps-term-picks/story?id=116205418

[UTUSN]

1. Hah! Is this BOROWITZ? - ON EDIT: adding *sarcasm* here.

[arthritisR_US]

8. No, it's ABC News

[rich7862]

2. the trump regret vote factor

"The Trump Vote Regret Factor " is coming of age!
People in Unions are seeing the Unions failing and are upset.
Along with a criminal cabinet of rapists and thieves. trump voters are already questioning their vote.
No wonder trump wants the military from day one with the excuse of deporting immigrants and of course
confiscating all their homes.

[haele]

3. When they saw the increasing number of loudmouthed racists

And White Nationalists discussing in public on National Media about crime by immigrants of color, "big city gang members"; talking about "poisoning the blood" without any pushback at all from the Republican Party they didn't notice the dog whistle had become a big ol' f***ing bullhorn?

They thought their money and position was going to make them equal in the eyes of their White counterparts?
They weren't able to read between the lines of their own Party platform, and didn't take Project 2025 seriously?

Leopard, meet Face.

Next up - Homosexual and Female Republicans in wealth and political positions.

Haele

[B.See]

6. PRECISELY!! Fuck 'em.

[TrunKated]

4. Chickens for Colonel Sanders...

Slugs for salt


Sheep for wolves.


Etc

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

5. Voting for him was like voting for the Grand Wizard of the Klan.

Sleeping with one's enemy is not being woke, it is being comatose.

[B.See]

7. I've a feeling that more than just

Trump's Black voters/apologists for white supremacy are in for a RUDE comeuppance.

And it's going to be a joy to behold.

[DFW]

10. That joy will not last long

Those Trumpanzees that end up suffering as a result of their votes will blame it on anyone but Trump or themselves, and would vote the same way from their skid row tents after their eviction and bandaid treatment at the local poverty health clinic.

[B.See]

14. Well, while I'm certainly

pissed off at minority voters and segments of the population who, imo short sightedly, even ignorantly voted for Trump against their(our) OWN best interests,

especially that 20 percent of my fellow Black voters who embraced this BIGOT,

I'd personally stop short of calling them Trumpanzies or assuming them to be living in skid row economic poverty.

'Delusionally ill informed' isn't limited to the financially disadvantaged, I'm afraid.

[DFW]

16. I apply "Trumpanzee" with equal vigor

Ted Cruz in the Senate, Mike Johnson in the House, Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, and the idiots on the street interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel saying they would keep the Affordable Care Act, but eliminate “Obamacare.” I don’t limit the term to any one group other than those who, through ignorance or though deliberate deception, would eagerly vote against the common good, including their own.

[B.See]

18. I know, because

I'm certain you'd not have used it if intended otherwise. It's just that there's no telling how others might interpret it. So, no worries.

Fact is, my greatest contempt is not for the average minority voter who supported Trump against their own best interests. As I said, I think most of them were woefully misinformed and willfully short sighted.

Busy looking at, or FOR 'trees' (frkn price of eggs and similar sht) while missing the whole fkn FOREST.

No, The worst of the lot, I think, are those mentioned in the op, like Donalds, Scott, Robinson et al, who sold their souls to fascist ideology for personal gain. I liken them to Africans who were involved in the slave trade, and for not completely dissimilar reasons, I think.

Imo, They deserve a SPECIAL place in hell.

[Aristus]

9. ...

[JI7]

11. I guess "black jobs" didn't include cabinet and many other high level positions

[B.See]

15. No, apparently it didn't.

And the thing that also pisses me was all that noise from Trump supporting Black voters and the so-called 'undecideds,' who (when given àn MSM mike) would claim Democrats don't '"hear them/us."

Well...

Now Trump is showing them how much HE hears... or for that matter, even GIVES a damn.

Because leopards eat FACES. (Hmmm... maybe I'll use that as my new sig line.)

[LoisB]

12. Awww. Guess who doesn't give a shyte.

[Cha]

13. ...

Suckers

[BoRaGard]

17. "Ha ha. Suckers!" - G.O.P. Felon/Rapist

[Walleye]

19. No tax on tips?😆

[Midnight Writer]

20. Note to Republicans: If he won't let you into his Country Club then he won't appoint you to his Administration.

[GoCubsGo]

21. I look forward to Stephanie Miller's "Black Power Hour" this Friday.

I have no doubt she will be wanting Frangela's response to this. I'm sure they will have things to say about it, as I have zero doubt she'll be saving this for them.

[phylny]

22. They're surprised and dismayed, really?

Huh. Who’d have thought?

[Maru Kitteh]

23. Ooooooo. "More than a half dozen." So seven. In all of Trumpworld ya got seven.

You campaigned alongside this avatar for neo-nazis on a platform of killing diversity/equity/inclusion and killing woke. You did that. You.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

24. OH NO!!!! ...anyway... nt

[EnergizedLib]

25. FA

FO

[Ocelot II]

26. They should take that as a compliment.

Apparently they aren’t corrupt, incompetent or weird enough for a cabinet position.

[Scrivener7]

27. Lol.

[mysuzuki2]

28. He told them who he was

They didn’t believe him

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. Who is surprised by this?

This was very predictable

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