Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon argued that Martin Luther King Jr. would be “proud” of President Trump for his accomplishments in office.
“Martin Luther King would be proud of him,” Bannon proclaimed during an interview that aired Wednesday on BBC. “What he’s done for the black and Hispanic community for jobs.”
Touting historically low unemployment rates among African-Americans and Hispanics under Trump’s presidency, Bannon argued that the late civil rights leader would approve of the administration’s impact on minority communities.
Martin Luther King “would be proud” of Donald Trump.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon says President Trump has done a lot for black and Hispanic people. #newsnight pic.twitter.com/PflQELFMdG
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“You don’t think Martin Luther King would be proud?” he continued. “Look at the unemployment we had in the black community five years ago. You don’t think Martin Luther King would sit there and go: ‘Yes, you’re putting young black men and women to work’?”
He also suggested that King would be proud that Trump is securing U.S. borders and stopping “the illegal alien labor forces coming in and competing with them every day and destroying the schools and destroying the healthcare.”
Bannon, who once served as the president’s right-hand man, was kicked from the White House in August after he made some unflattering comments about the Trump family in Michael Wolff’s tell-all book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
