Trump floats outrageous claim that Black Americans are ‘going to die’ because immigrants are taking their jobs

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The Black population in this country is going to die because of what’s happened, what’s going to happen to their jobs — their jobs, their housing, everything,” he said. Trump told Bloomberg that his plan for “the Black population” includes stopping “20 million people from coming into the country that’ll work for one-third what they’re working for.” He then suggested that he believes President Joe Biden wants people who live in the country illegally to take Black Americans’ jobs from them. President Joe Biden speaks at the 115th NAACP National Convention on July 16 in Las Vegas, where he ripped Donald Trump’s “Black jobs” remark and pointed to record unemployment levels for Black Americans. In campaign speeches at his rallies, the Republican nominee for president has repeatedly claimed that countries are emptying out mental institutions and prisons to “poison the blood of our country.” At the first 2024 presidential debate, Trump said “they” are “taking Black jobs” and “you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history.” “‘Black jobs.’ I love this phrase,” Biden said in remarks to the NAACP.