“Donald Trump is not going to get my vote”, said protester Thomas Wilson.
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Trump delivered a message about fixing economic hardships and the importance of bridging the gap between elected officials and community members.
“We’re one nation and when anyone hurts, we all hurt together and that’s so true.We’re all brothers and sisters, all created by the same God”.
Right at the point where Bishop Jackson was telling Trump, and America, that nothing, not even defeating Hillary Clinton, is impossible.
Blacks account for 12 percent of the USA electorate, and Trump, who trails in the polls with 66 days before the election, recently has sought to broaden his appeal.
Outside the church, several separate protests swelled into a throng of about 400 people denouncing Trump.
“The devil’s in the pulpit”, shouted Wyoman Mitchell, one of about 200 protesters who were pushed back by police on foot and on horseback in the tense encounter. “When this church received him, we’re saying we’re, if we really love Jesus and our Christian, the Bible says in the 5th Chapter of Matthew, it says blessed are the peacemakers”.
Prior to the church service, Trump was interviewed by Bishop Jackson for a piece that is scheduled to air September 7 on the Impact Network, a Christian broadcast TV network of which Jackson is CEO.
On Thursday, The New York Times published what it said was a script of pre-approved questions Trump would be asked in his interview with Jackson, along with prepared answers. Also in the audience was Detroit native Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who ran against Trump in the primaries and is now advising the campaign.
So, Saturday’s visit to a black church is trying to expand his appeal beyond his GOP base.
“Nothing is more sad than when we sideline young black men with tremendous potential”, he said.
“This is the most phony major party nominee that I’ve seen in my lifetime, and that’s why we’re skeptical”, Mayor Mike Duggan said at a news conference with Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, D-Southfield.
Detroit has the highest percentage of black residents – more than 80% – of any large American city.
Many neighbourhoods have been hollowed out by decades of “white flight”, in which Caucasian families left downtown and midtown for more affluent suburbs.
He said that candidates running for presidency don’t do enough to visit the communities and learn – but he, on the other hand, was there to learn, to be able to remedy injustice and fix the economy so that African American communities benefit economically from newly available jobs and wages.
In the end, protesters said they made their message clear. You know, his earlier outreach was led with this catchphrase that he would say to black voters – what have you got to lose? Now its a little different from a Presbyterian church, he said.
Riley concluded: “Spoken like someone for whom we should have more respect than to think because the circus came to town, she bought a ticket”.
Donald Trump told those in attendance that “it’s from these pews that our nation has been inspired toward a better moral character”.
“He has a whole lot of making up to do”, Thorn said.
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Trump said critics of police “share in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee and other places in our country”.
