President Trump is unveiling a “Platinum Plan” to help black people across the United States.
Trump is set to introduce the policy goals at an event in Georgia on Friday evening, 39 days before the Nov. 3 election, but portions of the plan were obtained by Fox News that detail Trump’s goal of increasing available capital by $500 billion to help elevate black communities.
“For decades, Democrat politicians like Joe Biden have taken black voters for granted. They made you big promises before every election, and then, the moment they got to Washington, they abandoned you and sold you out,” Trump is slated to say. “The Democrats will always take black voters for granted until large numbers of black Americans vote Republican.”
The foundation of Trump’s proposal is a $500 billion investment to open 500,000 new black-owned businesses across the country that could provide 3 million new jobs in predominantly black neighborhoods. Trump’s plan aims to protect jobs in black communities by continuing to clamp down on illegal immigration and by maintaining law and order to protect the new black-owned businesses.
As part of that effort to maintain law and order, Trump will vow to declare the Ku Klux Klan and antifa as terrorist organizations. He will also say that lynching should be a hate crime, something lawmakers in the House and Senate have been pursuing.
The proposal includes several other initiatives, including a plan to increase home ownership by black citizens and a goal to make Juneteenth a national holiday. Paris Dennard, a senior communications adviser for the Republican National Committee, called Trump’s plan a “game changer for black Americans.”
“President Trump made the black community a priority in his four years in office, while Joe Biden spent 47 years creating and supporting policies that destroyed black families, communities, and generational wealth,” Dennard said.
