What’s in Trump’s ‘Platinum Plan’ for Black America?
On the eve of the first presidential debate, the White House unveiled a $500 billion package of promises aimed at African-American voters. Details, however, were limited.
President Donald Trump announced his “Platinum Plan for Black Americans” at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta on September 25.
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In his efforts to woo African-American voters before the election, on September 25 President Donald Trump unveiled a plan to shovel capital, jobs and opportunities into Black communities — a program that his campaign is calling the “Platinum Plan for Black America.”
For Black communities, the Platinum Plan commits to unlocking $500 billion in access to capital, creating 3 million new jobs, and bridging historic disparities in health care and education. School choice, criminal justice reform and favorable trade deals for Black farmers and manufacturers round out the list of the president’s platinum promises. The campaign pledges that Trump will even make Juneteenth a national holiday if he is reelected, building on the credit that the president has taken for making Juneteenth “very famous.”