Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Ops in the Bronx

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. Here we go again.  On break from his New York hush money criminal trial, Donald Trump held a campaign rally on Thursday in the South Bronx. But just like his Chick-fil-A photo op in Atlanta and his staged visit to a bodega on the outskirts of Harlem, Trump is trolling us once again. Trump’s latest rally was littered with his greatest hits of mistruths and conspiracy theories. He repeated the lie that he won twice, praised dictators for being “at the top of their game,” accused immigrants of building an army against the U.S., promised to “indemnify all police officers” even when they kill Black people, and even bizarrely claimed that curious business leaders are asking him how he puts his pants on every day. In a raucous event that featured multiple fights and protests, the twice-impeached former president brought on stage two local rappers that no one in the audience had probably heard of, and a homophobic former New York City council member, Ruben Diaz Sr., who lost his...