The president of the USA, donald trumppraised this Tuesday the late Reverend Jesse Jacksona “good man” with an overwhelming personality whom he claimed to know well, and insisted that despite the “false” accusations of racism against him, he always maintained a good relationship with the veteran African-American activist.
“The Reverend Jesse Jackson has died at age 84. I knew him well, long before he was president. He was a good man, with a lot of personality, courage and ‘street smarts’. He was very personable, someone who truly loved people,” Trump wrote in Truth Social.
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The Republican president assured that “despite the fact that the scoundrels and lunatics of the radical left, all Democrats” call him “falsely and constantly racist,” for him “it was always a pleasure to help Jesse along the way.”
Reverend Jesse Jackson attends the tenth annual summit of the Rainbow Push Wall Street Project in New York, United States, on January 8, 2007. Photo: EFE/EPA/Peter Foley
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These statements by Trump come weeks after the publication of a video, now deleted, on his Truth Social account where former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle appear, characterized as apes, something that provoked harsh criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike.
According to the New York magnate, he provided office space to Jackson, a renowned civil rights fighter and close collaborator of Martin Luther King Jr., and his Rainbow Coalition organization “for years” in Trump Tower in Manhattan.
In his long message, the president listed several of the issues on which he said he supported Jackson, including his support for his request for help in passing criminal justice reform, long-term funding for historically black colleges and universities (HCBU), “which Jesse greatly appreciated and other presidents did not want to do.”
He also mentioned his favorable response to Jackson’s support for the ‘Opportunity Zones’“the most successful economic development package ever passed for black businessmen and women.”
Reverend Jesse Jackson speaks during the funeral of American singer Aretha Franklin at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on August 31, 2018. Photo: EFE/EPA/TANNEN MAURY
“Jesse was an overwhelming force like few before him. He had a lot to do with the election, without recognition or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man that Jesse could not stand. He loved his family very much, and I send them my deepest sympathies and condolences. Jesse will be missed!”, he concluded.
Jackson (1941-2026)a Baptist minister and two-time candidate for the US presidential candidacy, died this Tuesday surrounded by his loved ones at the age of 84, his family announced today.
Considered an iconic figure of the civil rights movement in the United States, the reverend revealed that he suffered from Parkinson’s in 2017 and was hospitalized last November to receive treatment for a rare and particularly serious neurodegenerative disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).
