Former NFL player Jack Brewer declared that President Trump, not President Barack Obama, was the first black president.
“Mr. President, I got to interrupt,” Brewer said Thursday during a roundtable event to celebrate Black History Month. “But I’ve got to say this because this is Black History Month: Man, you the first black president.”
The former NFL player’s comment elicited a round of applause from the other black supporters of the president at the table.
“Still president of the United States, absolutely,” Diamond and Silk chimed in.
Brewer added that he was a lifelong Democrat until Trump “inspired” a change in him that made him support his campaign.
“You’ve changed me. You touched me. And you made my work go to another level. You inspire me. And every time I go into those prisons, and I ask my guys how many of them had their sentences reduced and they raise their hands, I know I’m doing God’s work, and I thank you for that,” he said.
The president’s campaign is looking to win over black voters and announced this week that it would be creating new outreach centers for the black community in 15 different cities.
In 1998, novelist Toni Morrison declared then-President Bill Clinton “our first black president.”
