The president's popularity among African-Americans has continually inched upward since his election in 2016, with one Rasmussen poll in late-October placing his approval rating among blacks at 40 percent. He then jumped on the offensive and touted his likability among black voters. "I don't believe that," Trump said of the accusation that his rhetoric was emboldening white supremacy.
Okay? I'm a nationalist." The comment received significant amount of backlash from both sides of the aisle. During the event Trump proudly asserted: "You know what I am? I'm a nationalist. "What do you make of that?"Īlcindor was, of course, referring to the president's comments during a rally for Republican Ted Cruz in Houston in October. "There are some people that say now the Republican Party is seen as supporting white nationalists because of your rhetoric," Alcindor pushed on, despite the president's interruption. "I don't know why you would say that," Trump fired back at Alcindor's inquiry. "On the campaign trail you called yourself a nationalist, some people saw that as emboldening white nationalists," Yamiche Alcindor from PBS Newshour asked Trump before she was interrupted. The president called the question "racist."
President Donald Trump fired back at a black female reporter who asked the president if his rhetoric about nationalism could be seen as heartening white supremacists across the country.
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