President Trump declined to praise the late Rep. John Lewis in an interview, claiming that he himself had done more for Black Americans than anyone else. 'He didn't come to my inauguration,” Trump said. “He should've come.”
in the civil rights movement before being elected to Congress, Trump deferred.
"I find a lot of people impressive. I find many people not impressive," Trump said."He didn't come to my inauguration. He didn't come to my State of the Union speeches. And that's OK, that's his right. And again, nobody has done more for Black Americans than I have. He should've come. I think he made a big mistake.
"He was a person that devoted a lot of energy and lot of heart to civil rights. But there were many others also."Condemnation of Trump's remarks was swift and severe on Tuesday. "He's delusional. He's a narcissist, and he is delusional," Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said in an interview with CNN.
"He's done nothing for African Americans in this country, and to speak that in the same sentence as speaking of John Lewis is almost blasphemous," she said.
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