On Monday’s edition of The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg noted the president touted a new Reuters-Ipsos poll that showed a growing approval rating for Trump among blacks. The View crew refused to acknowledge that was any evidence at all for improvement in the black community, even the record-low black unemployment rate of 6.6 percent, which was announced on Friday.
Joy Behar complained “You know what that’s called? It’s called the Big Lie. They’ve used it in other dictatorships. You keep lying and lying and lying.” Doesn’t the use of “other” imply that Trump’s America is presently a dictatorship? Nonetheless, Amanda Carpenter just replied “Yeah. A lot of people go along with it.”
SUNNY HOSTIN: But, you know, if it's true, the premise is somehow that Trump has somehow done so much for the African-American community, and I just don't see it.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I don't think anybody in their right mind can point to anything!
HOSTIN: That's the thing. You have some conservative commentators somehow pundits saying that yes, the unemployment rate is lower now in the African-American community. Which it's really the same under -- Obama, of course.
Where is PolitiFact to evaluate these claims? It's NOT the same under Obama. Justin Fox at Bloomberg said black unemployment is at an all-time low, even if black employment isn't at an all-time high. Whoopi Goldberg actually suggested the economy has been continuously improving since 2003. She can't remember any financial-industry meltdown of 2008.
AMANDA CARPENTER: The economy is doing well, though. We can give Trump that, but we can’t give him every other thing –
GOLDBERG: No, no, no! We can't give him that! The economy has been getting better for the last -- I don't know. 15 years?
CARPENTER: It got suddenly better after Barack Obama left the White House.
GOLDBERG: It didn’t get suddenly better. What are you talking about?
CARPENTER: Sure it did. There was a “Trump bump” that happened as soon as Donald Trump came in. The stock market went crazy, and they said, some people were saying it's so good it's going to crash soon.
GOLDBERG: No. You know what? It always bumps with a new president. But he didn’t bring anything new –
CARPENTER: This was different because corporate America knew they were going to take the sranglehold of regulation off them, they knew Republicans were intent on changing the tax code, and they made a lot of investments based on that. There was a change. That was because of the new administration.
GOLDBERG: I disagree, but that's okay.
Then Sunny Hostin asked "Do you think the Trump administration cares about the African-American community? Because if you look at his recent White House intern picture, I didn't see too many people of color up in there. So it just seems to me he is not necessarily giving African-Americans more opportunities. Even within his own administration. Do you think he cares about black people?"
Carpenter said Trump has "such a big ego," that he wants to say "I saved black people" and "I saved the Dreamers, even though he doesn't actually care." But she insisted "I do think there are people in the administration that want to make things better, absolutely."
Goldberg said "I wish you’d point ‘em out!" Hostin echoed: "Yeah, me too! Other than Ben Carson! (Laughing sarcastically)."
