title:  Trump ‘Promises’ To Fix Black People’s Problems And Gets Spectactularly Owned For It On Twitter
text: Donald Trump must really think black people are stupid.The Republican nominee has been making a series of pathetic attempts to reach out to black voters on the campaign trail recently as his poll numbers continue to implode. What the hell do you have to lose,  Trump asked black voters in front of a white audience earlier this week as he claimed they all live in neighborhoods that are  war zones,  have bad schools, are unemployed, and live in poverty.Well, Trump took to Twitter on Thursday and made yet another pathetic effort to fool black voters into thinking that he actually gives a damn about them.Once again, Trump claimed poverty and crime are up in African-American communities while claiming that employment is down.  I will fix it, promise,  he tacked on at the end.So many in the African-American community are doing so badly, poverty and crime way up, employment and jobs way down: I will fix it, promise  Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2016Of course, Trump is talking out of his ass.As it turns out the black poverty rate over the last two decades favors Hillary Clinton and is really damning for Republicans.According to BlackDemographics.com: During the decade of the 1990s while the nation was experiencing an economic boom the poverty rate of Black families dropped from 29% in 1990 to 19% in 2000 virtually cutting the disparity in half. The economic downturn in the decade from 2000 to 2010 caused the increase of the Black family poverty rate to 24%. Since 2010 the Black family poverty rate began to decrease sightly reaching 23% in 2014, however the disparity has remained relatively unchanged since 2000.As we all know, Bill Clinton was president in the 1990s and he presided over a strong economy that benefited just about everyone, including African-Americans. But then George W. Bush took over and black families began to slip back below the poverty line, especially during the Great Recession.In addition, Trump over-exaggerates the crime in black communities and his claim that the unemployment rate among blacks is up is bullshit, too. In fact, it s been cut nearly in half since 2011.So Twitter ripped Trump a new one. .@realDonaldTrump just like you  fixed  the availability of all those apartment buildings so black tenants couldn t rent from you?? Promise.  Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul) August 25, 2016@realDonaldTrump Mr. Trump, can you please be specific? Maybe about anything? #NeverTrump  Mike Wickett (@mikewickett) August 25, 2016 @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/9bpOcGzUqX  John Harris (@YahyaJohn) August 25, 2016@RealDonaldTrump needs to:  Release tax returns  Apologize to the Khan Fam  Apologize to disabled Americans  Apologize to Muslims & Latinos  John Harris (@YahyaJohn) August 25, 2016 @YahyaJohn @realDonaldTrump also: delete his account  Scott A. W. Brown (@Scott_AW_Brown) August 25, 2016@realDenaldTrump @realDonaldTrump You called us thugs, criminals, drug dealers, pigs, rapists. Now you want our votes! SAD!  Judith Raquel (@GWGMJ30) August 25, 2016 @realDonaldTrump you were sued for refusing black people as tenants  Andrew W Chamings (@AndrewChamings) August 25, 2016@realDonaldTrump If you are reaching out to  the black  voters you are going to need longer arms and bigger hands pic.twitter.com/Q3p1Y7hEtg  Jake from state farm (@my2bits4u) August 25, 2016 @realDonaldTrump um  pic.twitter.com/YaYxGFtr1R  Paulino Nunes (@paulinocmnunes) August 25, 2016Featured image via Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images