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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>&#8216;You haven&#8217;t acknowledged there&#8217;s a race problem in this country&#8217; </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e">T<strong><strong>rump six months ago said this was &#8216;the best single moment in the history of the African-American people in this country&#8217;</strong> </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>Carl Day,</strong> a<strong> Philadelphia-based black pastor confronted Donald Trump, telling the president his &#8216;Make America Great Again&#8217; is &#8216;tone deaf&#8217; </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>&#8216;Are you aware of how tone deaf that comes off the African American community?&#8217;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e">After <strong>Day told Trump that he hadn&#8217;t &#8216;acknowledged there&#8217;s a race problem in this country&#8217;</strong>, Trump replied <strong>&#8216;Well, I hope there&#8217;s not a race problem. There&#8217;s none with me&#8217; </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>Paul Tubiana from Pittsburgh who said he was conservative and pro-life, a diabetic who&#8217;s had to dodge people not wearing masks asked the president : &#8216;Why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus?&#8217;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>Trump was also pressed on mask-wearing and his coronavirus response with Julie Bart, from Gibsonia, saying: &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you wear a mask more often?&#8217;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>Trump angrily slammed he Atlantic&#8217;s report that said he called American war dead &#8216;losers&#8217; and &#8216;suckers&#8217; when asked about the story by Pennsylvania voter Alexandra Stehman </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>Calling the story &#8216;lies&#8217; Trump gave new details about the story&#8217;s claim that he didn&#8217;t want to go to an American cemetery in France because he&#8217;d get his hair wet</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>&#8216;I wanted to go anyway. I said let me just go separately in a car in disguise, I don&#8217;t care,&#8217; the president said</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>Trump continued to complain about the late Sen. John McCain and described former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis as a &#8216;disgruntled employee&#8217; out to get him</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473d3e"><strong>Trump blamed the coronavirus crisis for black Americans falling behind and said he had great support among the community, pointing to public opinion polls</strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Donald-Trump-left-and-Carl-Day-right-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-354576" width="690" height="374"/><figcaption><strong>Why MAGA? President Donald Trump [left] was told by Philadelphia-based pastor Carl Day [right] that &#8216;Make America Great Again&#8217; was &#8216;tone deaf&#8217; toward black Americans </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Inside a studio set-up for Trump&#8217;s town hall with undecided Pennsylvania voters moderated by George Stephanopoulos saw, the president was heard denying race problems in America during the ABC town hall.<br>A member of the audience confronted President Donald Trump at Tuesday night&#8217;s ABC News town hall in Philadelphia telling him that the &#8216;Make America Great Again&#8217; slogan is &#8216;tone deaf.&#8217;<br>&#8216;When has America been great for African Americans in the ghetto of America? Are you aware of how tone deaf that comes off the African American community?&#8217; Carl Day asked Trump. Day who is black is a pastor based in the city.</p>



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<p>He also pointed out that Trump hadn&#8217;t acknowledged America&#8217;s race problem, to which the president replied, &#8216;Well I hope there&#8217;s not a race problem.&#8217; <br>&#8216;I can tell you, there&#8217;s none with me,&#8217; Trump said. <br>The town hall, pre-taped in Philadelphia and then broadcast several hours later, had undecided voters pose questions to Trump, with ABC News&#8217; George Stephanopoulos there to moderate the Q&;A. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Donald-Trump-and-ABCs-George-Stephanopolous-at-Philly-townhall-on-Sept-15-2020-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-354585" width="683" height="416"/><figcaption><strong>During a Q&;A session in Philadelphia, Donald Trump [left] took questions from an audience of undecided voters. The ABC News event was moderated by George Stephanopoulos [right] </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Day wanted to hear Democrat Joe Biden&#8217;s plans for black America before casting a vote that way. <br>When Day first called MAGA &#8216;tone deaf,&#8217; Trump pointed to public opinion polls &#8211; which generally show him underwater with black voters compared to Democrat Joe Biden.<br>&#8216;Well, I can say this, we have tremendous African-American support,&#8217; Trump said. &#8216;You&#8217;ve probably seen it in the polls. We&#8217;ve done extremely well with African-American, Hispanic-American at levels that you&#8217;ve rarely seen a Republican have.&#8217; </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Donald-Trump-at-ABCs-Philly-townhall-on-Sept-15-2020-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-354579" width="608" height="727"/><figcaption><strong>In the studio set-up town hall moderated by George Stephanopoulos, Trump denied race problems exist in America, facing questions from unrelenting undecided Pennsylvania voters</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The event kicked off with some tough questions for the president.<br>One voter who identified himself as Paul Tubiana, who said he voted for Trump in 2016 said, &#8216;I&#8217;m a conservative, pro-life and diabetic. I&#8217;ve had to dodge people who don&#8217;t care about social distancing and wearing face masks,&#8217; he said – after Trump held rallies with mask-less supporters in the West.<br>&#8216;I thought you were doing a good job with the pandemic response until about May 1st. Then you took your foot off the gas pedal. Why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus?&#8217; he asked. <br>&#8216;Well, we really didn&#8217;t, Paul,&#8217; Trump countered.<br>&#8216;We&#8217;ve worked very hard on the pandemic. We&#8217;ve worked very hard. It came off from China. They should have never let it happen,&#8217; he said</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Donald-Trump-left-and-Paul-Tubiana-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-354578" width="635" height="355"/><figcaption><strong>Why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus?&#8217; asked Paul Tubiana, [right], a conservative who said he voted for Donald Trump [left] in 2016</strong><br></figcaption></figure>



<p>Moderator George Stephanopoulos challenged Trump on past statements that the virus would &#8216;go away,&#8217; Trump stuck to his guns, &#8216;It would go away without the vaccine, George, but it&#8217;s going to go away a lot faster with it,&#8217; Trump insisted.<br>&#8216;It would go away without the vaccine?&#8217; Stephanopoulos pressed.<br>&#8216;Sure, over a period of time. Sure, with time it goes away,&#8217; Trump responded.<br>&#8216;And many deaths,&#8217; Stephanopoulos reminded the president.<br>&#8216;And you&#8217;ll develop – you&#8217;ll develop herd &#8212; like a herd mentality,&#8217; Trump said. &#8216;It&#8217;s going to be – it&#8217;s going to be herd-developed, and that&#8217;s going to happen. That will all happen,&#8217; he said. </p>



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<p>President Trump reiterated his his claim that a coronavirus vaccine would be ready in three or four weeks.<br>To date Us has over 6.5 million infections and nearly 200,000 deaths, roughly 25 percent of global infections and fatalities with 4.5 percent of the world&#8217;s population. In the facce of no discernable policy to counter the ravages of Covid-19, the president has dangled the panacea that a vaccine would soon be ready for use before the November elections. However, public health officials and pharmaceutical companies alike have warned that an accelerated timeline may fools gold. <br>Still, at the town hall Trump maintained, &#8216;We&#8217;re very close to having a vaccine,&#8217; he said. <br>Swinging back to his achievements in comparison to the Obama administration Trump said, &#8216;If you want to know the truth, the previous administration would have taken perhaps years to have a vaccine because of the FDA and all the approvals. And we&#8217;re within weeks of getting it … Could be three weeks, four weeks.&#8217;<br>It was not the first time Trump has claimed that a vaccine is imminent. Last week, he said that one could arrive &#8216;during the month of October&#8217;.<br>Others have been more reserved with their predictions. US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci told CNN earlier this month that a more realistic time-frame would be November or December.<br>&#8216;It is conceivable that you can have it by October, though I don&#8217;t think that that&#8217;s likely.&#8217; </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Donald-Trump-at-ABCs-Philly-townhall-on-Sept-15-2020-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-354586" width="613" height="500"/><figcaption><strong>Denial:</strong> <strong>Trump angrily slammed The Atlantic&#8217;s report that said he called dead American soldiers &#8216;losers&#8217; and &#8216;suckers&#8217; and told a town hall audience he didn&#8217;t need to build back support of military members &#8216;because I never made those statements&#8217; </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>On the issue of race relations, Trump told pastor Carl Day that if he went back six or seven months &#8216;that was the best single moment in the history of the African-American people in this country, I think &#8211; I would say.&#8217; <br>Day again questioned why Trump would use Make America Great &#8216;Again,&#8217; and then described the conditions of the &#8216;ghettos,&#8217; with drugs and guns, which black Americans have historically been red-lined into. <br>&#8216;And we have not been seeing a change, quite frankly under your administration,&#8217; Day said. <br>&#8216;Under the Obama administration, under the Bush, under the Clinton, the very same thing happening.&#8217; <br>Day then pointed out that while Trump had talked about police officers &#8216;choking&#8217;, when explaining why unarmed black Americans are being shot at a disproportionate rate by law enforcement, &#8216;you have yet to address and acknowledge that there&#8217;s been a race problem in America.&#8217; <br>Trump said he hoped there wasn&#8217;t a race problem &#8216;because I have great respect for all races, for everybody.&#8217; <br>&#8216;This country is great because of it,&#8217; Trump said, citing recent polls in Florida that show Biden in a slightly weaker position than Hillary Clinton did in 2016 among Latino voters. <br>&#8216;You look just prior to this horrible situation coming in from China, when the virus came in, that was the &#8211; probably the highest point, home ownership for the black community, home ownership, lower crime, the best jobs they’ve ever had, highest income, the best employment numbers they’ve ever had,&#8217; Trump continued. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Alexandra-Stehman-1.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Alexandra-Stehman-1.jpg" width="576" height="491"/><figcaption><strong>Alexandra Stehman asked Trump about the comments he reportedly made about American war dead and servicemembers, &#8211; whom he called he called &#8216;suckers and losers&#8217; along with things he&#8217;s said publicly about the late Sen. John McCain</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Another voter, Alexandra Stehman from Philadelphia, asked Trump about the comments he reportedly made about American war dead and servicemembers, along with disparaging things he&#8217;s said publicly about the late Sen. John McCain.</p>



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<p>The President angrily slammed The Atlantic&#8217;s report that said he called dead American soldiers &#8216;losers&#8217; and &#8216;suckers&#8217; and told a town hall audience he didn&#8217;t need to build back support of military members &#8216;because I never made those statements&#8217; <br>His feelings about the late Sen. John McCain were well known, Trump said<br>He also also blasted his former Defense Secretary, retired Gen. James Mattis, saying Mattis was among the &#8216;disgruntled former employees&#8217; who lied about him <br>Trumped went further to suggest the report was a Democratic conspiracy. <br>&#8216;This magazine came up. They made up this quote. It was a made up quote and you know, the gloves are off with Biden &#8211; who I&#8217;ve never respected greatly &#8211; I&#8217;ve never respected him greatly,&#8217; Trump said, inserting the name of his Democratic opponent. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/John-McCain-left-and-James-Mattis-right-1.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is John-McCain-left-and-James-Mattis-right-1.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>No pulling back: Trump told the audience his feelings about the late Sen. John McCain [left] were well known, while also blasting his former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis [right]. Mattis was among the &#8216;disgruntled former employees&#8217; who lied about him, Trump said </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>He asked Stehman, &#8216;Do you know what disinformation is?&#8217;<br>&#8216;That&#8217;s what it was. They made up a phony quote, and then they went with it. It was a phony deal. And then one who started it was a big friend of President Obama and Clinton,&#8217; Trump continued. &#8216;And it was a phony deal from a very &#8211; not very successful magazine.&#8217; <br>Trump added that both &#8217;25 people&#8217; and also &#8217;26 people&#8217; vouched for him. <br>When moderator George Stephanopoulos pointed out that former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly didn&#8217;t come to Trump&#8217;s defense after the article was published, Trump referred to them as &#8216;people that I let go.&#8217; <br>&#8216;These are disgruntled former employees,&#8217; Trump said. <br>Stehman had also asked Trump about previous statements he&#8217;s made about the late Sen. John McCain, which the president admitted to doing. <br>&#8216;As far as John McCain, I was never a fan of John McCain. I never thought he treated our vets well, he didn’t do the job,&#8217; Trump said. <br>&#8216;I was never a fan of his. But &#8211; and I think that&#8217;s fine and everybody knows that, and I said it to his face.&#8217; </p>



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<p>Explaining his covid response, Trump quoted comments from his lead covid expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, early in the pandemic amid a shortage of protective gear – then noted that &#8216;some people&#8217; say not to shut down businesses to spread disease transmission.<br>&#8216;But whether it&#8217;s Dr. Fauci or anybody else, a lot of people got it wrong. They talked about don&#8217;t wear masks, and now they say wear masks. Although some people say don&#8217;t wear masks,&#8217; Trump said.<br>&#8216;I mean you have a lot of different ideas. Some people say just leave it the way it is and don&#8217;t do any shutdowns, and other people say do shutdowns,&#8217; he said. <br>Another undecided voter, Ajani Powell, a voter from Pittsburgh<strong>,</strong> asked the question, &#8216;The wearing of masks has proven to lessen the spread of COVID. Why don&#8217;t you support a mandate for national mask wearing?&#8217; <br>&#8216;And a good question is, you ask why Joe Biden &#8212; they said we&#8217;re going to do a national mandate on masks,&#8217; Trump said, referencing a comment Biden made weeks ago about what he might do once in office after consulting experts.<br>&#8216;He&#8217;s called on all governors to have them. There&#8217;s a state responsibility,&#8217; said Stephanopoulos. <br>&#8216;Well no, but he didn&#8217;t do it. I mean, he never did it,&#8217; Trump said. <br>&#8216;I don&#8217;t want to drive our nation into a panic. I&#8217;m a cheerleader for this nation. I&#8217;m the one that closed up our country. I closed it up long before any of the experts thought I should &#8211;<br> and saved hundreds of thousands of lives,&#8217; Trump claimed. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Ellesia-Blaque-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-354609"/><figcaption><strong>&#8216;From the day I was born, I was considerable uninsurable&#8217;, Ellesia Blaque [photo], told Trump. &#8216;Should pre-existing conditions &#8212; which ObamaCare brought into &#8212; brought into &#8212; brought to fruition be removed &#8230; within a 36 to 72-hour period, without my medication, I will be dead</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Trump also fielded had a testy exchange with Ellesia Blaque, a black college professor who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Blaque who has sarcoidosis and said each year she pays $7,000 plus copays. <br>&#8216;From the day I was born, I was considerable uninsurable. That disease started in my skin, moved to my eyes, into my optic nerves, and when I went to graduate school, into my brain,&#8217; she said.<br>She told the president: &#8216;And should pre-existing conditions &#8212; which ObamaCare brought into &#8212; brought into &#8212; brought to fruition be removed &#8230; within a 36 to 72-hour period, without my medication, I will be dead.&#8217;<br>When Trump tried to interject to say it would not be removed, she told him: &#8216;Please stop and let me finish my question, sir.&#8217;<br>&#8216;We are not going to hurt anything having to do with pre-existing conditions. We&#8217;re not going to hurt pre-existing conditions. And &#8212; in fact, just the opposite,&#8217; Trump said.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Ajani-Powell-left-and-Donald-Trump-right-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-354607" width="728" height="375"/><figcaption><strong>&#8216;Ask Joe Biden why&#8217; was Trump&#8217;s response when Ajani Powell [left], a voter from Pittsburgh, asked. &#8216;If you believe it&#8217;s the president&#8217;s responsibility to protect America, why would you downplay a pandemic that is known to disproportionately harm low-income families and minority communities&#8217; </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>When Trump tried to interject to say it would not be removed, she told him: &#8216;Please stop and let me finish my question, sir.&#8221;We are not going to hurt anything having to do with preexisting conditions. We&#8217;re not going to hurt preexisting conditions. And &#8212; in fact, just the opposite,&#8217; Trump said.<br>&#8216;If you look at what they want to do, where they have socialized medicine, they will get rid of preexisting conditions,&#8217; Trump claimed. He did not note, as the questioner did, that Obamacare established protections for those with preexisting conditions. </p>



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<p>Moderator Stephanopoulos fact checked the president immediately: &#8216;Number one, Joe Biden &#8230; ran against Medicare for All in the primaries,&#8217; Stephanopoulos said.&#8217;But much more importantly, Obamacare guaranteed people with preexisting conditions could buy insurance, guaranteed they could buy it at the same price as everyone else, guaranteed a package of essential benefits, guaranteed that insurance companies couldn&#8217;t put a lifetime limit on those benefits,&#8217; Stephanopoulos said.<br>Stephanopoulos also noted that the Trump administration was in court seeking to strike down the Obamacare law, which includes the preexisting conditions protections. <br>Trump pushed back claiming that he had a plan, after Stephanopoulos reminded him: &#8216;I interviewed you in June of last year, you said the healthcare plan would come in two weeks.<br>&#8216;I have it all ready – I have it all ready,&#8217; Trump said.<br>&#8216;You&#8217;ve been trying to strike down preexisting conditions,&#8217; Stephanopoulos maintained.<br>&#8216;It doesn&#8217;t matter, I have it all ready, and it&#8217;s a much better plan for you – and it&#8217;s a much better plan,&#8217; Trump responded, in reference to Ellesia Blaque&#8217;s question on the fate of people with pre-existing conditions under Trump&#8217;s proposed health plan. </p>



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‘You haven’t acknowledged there’s a race problem in this country, your MAGA slogan is tone deaf’; ‘Why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus?’; Is it true that you called he called dead troops ‘suckers and losers?’ – Trump under fire from voters at Philly town hall
