{UAH} It has been said that Donald Trump has done more for people of colour than almost any other president of the U.S.A. in history. Is this statement true or false?

Spencer Alexander McDaniel

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B.A. in Classical Studies & History, Indiana University Bloomington 

It depends what you mean by "done more for."

The assertion that Donald Trump has done more to help people of color than "almost any other president" of the United States is certainly false. Here are just a few obvious examples of presidents who did more to help people of color than Trump:

• Abraham Lincoln helped push the Thirteenth Amendment—which abolished slavery throughout the whole country—through Congress.
• Lyndon B. Johnson, a Southern Democrat who privately held a lot of really racist views, supported civil rights and signed both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
• Barack Obama, who is a Black man himself, implemented new, stricter rules to crack down on racial discrimination in housing and employment.

And so on. Trump hasn't done anything like any of these things.

On the other hand, it is true that Donald Trump has done more to hurt people of color than any other recent American president. There are certainly presidents who have done more to hurt people of color than Trump, but Trump has probably done more than any president since Richard Nixon.

ABOVE: Portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Barack Obama

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