Trump Addresses Empty Church As African-American Photo-Op Backfires In Detroit

[appleannie1]

Source: PoliticusUSA

Donald Trump’s appearance at an African-American church in Detroit went wrong, as the congregation rejected Trump by not showing up to hear him speak.

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/03/trump-addresses-empty-church-african-american-photo-op-backfires-detroit.html

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There is video at the link. The few people that did show up were mostly white.

[Iliyah]

1. You ain't gonna to see that on corporate media just like corporate media

did not show a very tiny small crowed where many left while T-rump was spouting hate during the immigration speech in AZ.

[saidsimplesimon]

4. This is true, Iliyah.

I watched and read headliners without a mention. Our national media outlets do not deploy journalists, or reporters to the scene of many crimes against the value of a "free press". It's entertainment and ratings, without any measure of content and quality.

[nolabear]

12. It was on one of the cable networks.

I switched back and forth so don't know which. The reporter said there were more than a hundred empty seats. I hope they emphasize that.

[murielm99]

65. I caught this story on NBC.

They did not show the empty church or make any reference to the size of the crowd. They spoke in positive terms about Trump's speech, and about how much more gentle and calm he was today.

Total BS and pro-Trump propaganda.

[renate]

16. I just saw a clip on the BBC World News

I didn't see the crowd, just him speaking as if he were a normal human being. On the BBC! I'm disappointed.

[skylucy]

2. Thanks for posting that. Interesting that TV media didn't show that.

[marybourg]

52. I saw it on MSNBC

while visiting my DH's assisted living facility this morning. (My only exposure to cable TV. ugh Can't believe people pay for this. But since average age in facility is 88, perhaps understandable for them.)

[Coolest Ranger]

3. They only want to show

positive Trump stories and Negative Hillary Clinton stories. Many of us in the black community have already figured that ou

[Iliyah]

5. If that was HRC, corporate media would have broke their necks

showing the lack of people showing up and would have harped on it for ever.

[PatSeg]

6. I had a feeling it might turn out like that

Who on earth would go out of their way to see Trump in person, besides his deranged base?

[pangaia]

7. Who in the name of the Mazda CX-3 are those people cheering at the end?

[Initech]

10. Donald Trump's PR team?

[romanic]

8. LMAO

He should have expected it.

[oberliner]

9. This is definitely not true

The people who showed up were not mostly white, and it wasn't empty.

[Grassy Knoll]

11. Packed House...

[nolabear]

13. Where is that from? I'd like to share.

[Grassy Knoll]

19. From The Link Above

[nolabear]

49. Oops. Thanks.

[uppityperson]

18. Where is that photo from? Thanks

[oberliner]

20. Alternatively there is this photo

:large

[Grassy Knoll]

22. Nice Deceptive Angle...

[oberliner]

23. It wasn't empty and it wasn't mostly white people

I watched the video feed of it as it happened.

It was about half full and it was mostly black people.

[George II]

27. The two photographs at the OP link are not the same room/church. The backdrops...

...are completely different.

[SCantiGOP]

34. ???? Why the confusion

Don't people realize it may simply be pictures from two different times? Walk into a football stadium at 7am and there may be 60 people there; come back at 7pm and there may be 60,000.
But, many on this board would rather depict this as another proof of the right-wing media conspiracy against everything Democratic.

[baldguy]

68. There's no RW media conspiracy against Democrats?

What planet do you live on? Of course there is. Trump wouldn't exist otherwise.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512395936

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512397020

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512396449

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512396965

[SCantiGOP]

71. I guess that is why

Every peer-reviewed academic study in the past several decades has indicated a liberal bias in the mainstream media. Using terms like M$M and Corporate Media doesn't change reality.
Trump is getting coverage because he is making news- and much of it is hurting him.

[baldguy]

72. Links please.

[SCantiGOP]

73. How about the 4th link in your post:

Why didn't CNN cover Trump and the empty church? Because it didn't happen except in a misleading post at DU.

Don't care to argue the point, but it makes us sound a little like the Glenn Beck crowd to be constantly griping that there are huge media conspiracies against us. We are winning, and most MSM coverage of Trump that I see presents him as a dishonest, racist buffoon.

[progressoid]

66. Actually, the shot from the back is similarly deceptive.

It's also a wide angle lens. Looks like about the same number of rows of empty chairs as full. However, it's also likely that a fair number of the people are also trump staffers and volunteers.

[appleannie1]

24. That shows 7 rows of a 1500 capacity church. When you look at the picture from the back of the

church, there are about 7 rows of people. From there back it is empty. Amazing what a deceptive angle can do.

[oberliner]

28. This one is a little wider

The shot from the back shows 7 empty rows. So how about half-full/half-empty?

I mean this does show at least 7 full rows.

[ailsagirl]

43. The woman to drumpf's left doesn't look very happy

I don't blame her

[oberliner]

44. That woman is Omarosa

Trump's #1 fan.

[ailsagirl]

48. ARGH!!!!!!

Thanks for the correction

[Motley13]

14. He had his human shields with him

Ben Carson & Omarosa

[desi]

60. He also had his worst nightmare surrogate with him...

Katrina Pierson, far left in pic, post 28.

[Bohunk68]

70. Look right beside him, the guy's name is Paris something or another.

He was on Joy Reid yesterday and what a twit mouthpiece he is. I suspect that there are some who may support him in the hopes that if he should win, they will have a very comfortable sinecure.

[Chakab]

15. It didn't really backfire because none of the establishment media is reporting that the Church was

largely empty.

[forest444]

17. I presume Pastor Burns was asked to make himself scarce.

[Moonwalk]

21. Trump logic-->Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Trump's running as a Republican...

...So voting for Trump is like voting for Abraham Lincoln.

[George II]

25. I'm not a fan of Trump, I want to see him humiliated on Election Day, but....

....the photograph at the link is not the church where he spoke. Look at the gold railing behind him when he spoke, and look at the backdrop in the mostly empty room.

He's doing a good enough job of defeating himself, please let's not start doing what Breitbart, Fox News, etc. do - use phony or incorrect photographs to "prove" something.

[Grassy Knoll]

32. Here...

[oberliner]

35. Both pictures are from the same event

If you watch the video, you will see that.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. 26 Corinthians walk into a church.

[shadowmayor]

29. Can you imagine

Just imagine Hillary going into a not-full church like that? The media would be all over her for not connecting with the people etc. Now cue to MSNBC to have Chuckie and others truth'splain what it really means and how tRump is showing his softer side blah blah blah. I swear the media spends more time covering this squawking yam than does faux noise. Why is STFU donny doing so well in the polls? Because the media not only gives him a free ride - they have been propping up this clown to make it a horse race. As much as I detest everything about STFU donny, the media's complicity makes me wretch. That is what is truly disappointing about this whole election.

[oberliner]

30. That has already happened

She got a lot of crap from the usual suspects for the low attendance at this event.

[DarthDem]

36. Your Sure Are Down on Clinton

Message received! !

[oberliner]

38. BS

Just a fan of true and accurate information.

The more truth and accuracy, the better it is for HRC, since Trump's entire candidacy is predicated on nothing but lies.

[JackBoik]

51. This^ x1000000

I would hope that our side is infinitely better than Trump's, at every level, including the representation of reality. Stories which exaggerate the positives about Hillary's campaign, or the negatives about Trump's reek of desperation - They make me think of poll-denying Trump supporters.

I understand the importance of feel-good news, but there's a difference between what is and what we all wish it was - that's all.

[Mosby]

41. someone gave him a tallit

WTH?

Not an appropriate gift to give to a non jew.

[oberliner]

42. That was a very bizarre moment

I wonder how that will play with his RW Jew-hating fans.

[Mosby]

53. probably not very well.

A tzedakah box would have been a perfect gift for someone who felt compelled to give this psycho a Jewish gift of some sort.

[oberliner]

54. Still don't get why a Christian would give him a Jewish gift

Why not give a Christian gift if you are a Christian pastor?

[Mosby]

58. i read up on the pastor a bit

Seems like they are into messianic "judaism".

[oberliner]

62. Aha

Now it all fits.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

31. He got more empty chairs than Clint Eastwood!

[spooky3]

56. Good one!

[niyad]

33. and, of course, the actual pastor of that church was not even invited to the "event"

[oberliner]

37. Yes he was

After Trump finished speaking, the church's pastor, Bishop Wayne Jackson, draped a prayer shawl over Trump's shoulders, much to the crowd's delight, and handed him a Jewish Heritage Study Bible.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/03/politics/donald-trump-black-voters-detroit/index.html

[niyad]

40. the invitation came after the reports I read earlier this week, then.

[solara]

57. I think you are thinking of a different event

Earlier this week Trump had a conclave with some African Americans at a church with a hall, the Pastor for that church was on vacation at the time and had no idea that meeting was going to take place

[lastlib]

39. Karma is a bee-yutch!!

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Poor Little Donny!!

[NurseJackie]

45. Heh, heh, heh! What a LOSER!

[jtuck004]

46. Did not backfire. He is still talking to white people. Some are just fooled

by this venue.

[Crash2Parties]

47. What do you want to bet since it flopped he won't pay the pastor

for renting the hall/church like he promised?

[KamaAina]

50. I love it when this happens in titties like Detroit!

[Jim Dandy]

55. Little Hands' advance people must be on quaaludes

His staff is as stupid as the clown they work for.

[Enrique]

59. politicususa is ridiculous

if anyone wants to know what actually happened, I would suggest the Detroit Free Press's account:

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/03/protesters-greet-donald-trump-he-arrives-detroit-church/89768582/

[pressbox69]

61. Listen to how Trump concludes.

"Most groups I speak to don't know it ("1 John 4&quot . So is he acknowledging that most of the people that show up at his rallies and speeches are Godless heathens?

[Rex]

63. I LOVE IT!

Sadly the MSM will ignore this fully, had this been HRC - they would have bent over backwards telling people only a few folks showed up.

[bora13]

64. why fer?

he didn't whine about the TV cams not panning the audience? shameful

[Little Tich]

67. This is funny. n/t

[mdbl]

69. There's really something wrong with those church leaders

when they can't even tell the devil in sheep's clothing, they need to go back to bible school.