What did donald trump say about frederick douglass?

“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice,” the president said. Critics seized on Trump's comments at a Black History Month event, mercilessly attacking him for statements that spoke of Douglass in the present tense. read more

“My first instinct was to go on the attack,” said Kenneth B. Morris Jr., Douglass’s great-great-great grandson. “I think it was obvious to anyone that heard [Trump’s] comments or read his comments that he was not up to speed on who Frederick Douglass was. read more

Andy Borowitz jokes that everything Trump knows about Frederick Douglass came from his Education Secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos. Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday that everything he knew about Douglass had come from his Education Secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos. read more

” and said that Trump’s remarks were “transparently empty.” The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank joked that Trump “raised the dead.” And someone started a Frederick Douglass Twitter account that trolled the president before it was deleted (although some of the tweets have been saved). read more

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—After raising eyebrows by suggesting that he believed that Frederick Douglass was still alive, Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday that everything he knew about Douglass had come from his Education Secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos. “Betsy told me all about Frederick Douglass,” Trump told reporters. read more

We've railed against injustice for decade upon decade, a lifetime of struggle and progress and enlightenment that we see etched in Frederick Douglass's mighty, leonine gaze. Trump, by contrast, has long spoken of the black community in fundamentally instrumental terms, from his business career to his political one. read more