Trump declares his love for Tiger Woods, Kanye West, George Foreman, and Jim Brown
President Trump is pleased with his sometime (quick) golf buddy, Tiger Woods.
Last Sunday, the pro golfer offered a tepid non-condemnation of Trump, saying "we all must respect the office" of the president, and then dodged a question about race relations by explaining he was "really hungry." This Sunday, Trump posted a tweet about it which also listed his other black friends:
West has repeatedly expressed enthusiasm for Trump; Foreman has dubbed Trump a "good president;" and both Foreman and Brown have taken the president's side in his beef with pro athletes who kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality and systemic racism. (Dennis Rodman no doubt feels left out.)
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In a second post, Trump repeated his frequent claim to have pushed the black unemployment rate to record lows:
African-American unemployment has actually been "steadily declining since March 2010," when it was 16.8 percent, Fortune writes, and "while Trump was in office, it decreased by one point — keeping up a trend that had already been in place."
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