Krauthammer’s Take: On Trump’s Plan for Black Employment, ‘What Exactly Is He Going to Do?’

Donald Trump has argued that high levels of unemployment in the black community are reason to support him, and Charles Krauthammer thinks that Trump needs to have more of a plan

Well, I don’t think it’s an appeal to get a large number of African Americans on November 8^th. I think what this is an appeal to — this is part of the shaping of the image, the softening, trying to remove the edges. The worst thing that can happen in the precincts of, say, the suburban Republican population is to be accused of racism. Credibly or not. And we’ve even heard it said by Paul Ryan regarding what Trump had said about the Mexican, so-called Mexican, judge.

I think what he has to do, he has to banish that image. He has to undo it. I think this is an effective way to do it. You show that you are not a candidate of simply white people, which is sort of the main story going on here. He cares about America. This is sort of the Obama: “We’re not white America, black America. We’re the United States of America.” He ended on a kind of a crescendo there talking about that unity and non-divisiveness. That’s the object of this kind of talk.

But the question is, yes, you may have nothing to lose, but what exactly is he going to do that’s going to give the jobs to the young people in the inner city, et cetera? We haven’t heard that yet, and that’s what we’ll be waiting to hear.