Clyburn Lashes Out Over Trump ‘Black Jobs’ Remark: ‘Very Low Opinion Of Black People’

Prominent Biden ally Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) lashed out at former President Donald Trump over remarks about “Black jobs” that have gone viral among outraged Trump critics, particularly Black people.

During Thursday night’s debate , Trump made this baseless claim about “Black jobs”:

As sure as you’re sitting there, the fact is that his big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking Black jobs now and it could be 18. It could be 19 and even 20 million people. They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs and you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history.

The remark went viral and spawned memes on X/Twitter and the cultural substrata known as Black Twitter.

On Sunday morning’s edition of CNN’s State of the Union , host Dana Bash asked Clyburn for his reaction, and Clyburn let Trump have it:

DANA BASH: I want to quickly give you the opportunity to respond to something that Donald Trump said on the debate stage about undocumented migrants, undocumented immigrants, rather.

DONALD TRUMP: They’re taking Black jobs now. And it could be 18, it could be 19 and even 20 million people. They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs.

DANA BASH: What’s your reaction to that?

REP. JAMES CLYBURN: It’s– Joe Biden has been talking about this. He’s been to the the other night. Donald Trump is being Donald Trump. He has a very, very, very low opinion of people of color– Black, brown, whatever color. He has a low opinion of Black people.

He’s demonstrated that all of his life. And I would like to hear from some of his Black supporters why they will not have these discussions about what this man has done, to Black women, what this man has done to young Black youth and what he has done to his own businesses when it comes to Black people.

I’ve talked to Reverend Sharpton. He told me he’s been in and out of his businesses and never has seen a Black person in any of them.

How do you just give this man a pass on all of that? Compare his hiring records to Joe Biden’s hiring records, and then that also give you some indication of what it would be going forward.

So what he said the other night about Black jobs meant to me that there are certain jobs for Black people, and there are certain jobs for white people, there are certain jobs for white people, and there are certain jobs, for non white people.

And these people coming in will be taking those jobs, that are for non white people, never mind, them being a threat to those jobs for the rest of us.

Watch above via CNN’s State of the Union .