TRUMP RETURNS

On January 20th, 2025, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. This year inauguration also happened to fall on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Trump has continuously threat- ened to chase his political career since the 1980s, it was not until 2015 he made a move an actually ran. On June 16th, 2015, Trump announced his candidacy for president at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York. In November 2016, he defeated Hillary Clinton, after his first term he ran again and lost to President Joe Biden. In 2024, he ran for a 3rd time and defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, making him, a felon the future President of the United States. Trump has said on multiple occasions that he has done a lot for Black people. “I have done more for Black Americans than anybody, except for the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln” he said in a White House briefing in June of 2020. In reality, many Black Americans do not share those same sentiments. To the naked eye, it looks like Black Americans benefited a lot during Trumps first presidency but many things that benefited Black Americans was a continued result of...