Former First Lady Michelle Obama slammed former President Donald Trump’s racist comments about “black jobs” during her speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention.
“I want to know,” Obama said, “who’s going to tell [Trump] that the job he is currently looking for might be one of those black market jobs?”
During her speech, Obama spoke about her mother and the future of the country, and criticized Trump, saying he has “done everything in his power to make people afraid of us,” calling his views petty, childish and unpresidential.
“His limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by two hardworking, successful people who happened to be black,” she said.
During the June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden, Trump railed against Biden’s immigration policies, calling them a “massive assassination of black people” by allowing “millions” of people to enter the U.S. through the border.
“They’re taking black jobs right now and it could be 18, 19, even 20 million,” Trump said.
“They’re taking jobs from blacks and from Latinos, and you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that will be the worst in our history,” he added.
Obama continued her speech, in which she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, noting how Harris has shown her “fidelity” to America by “not spewing anger and bitterness, but by living a life of service and always holding the doors of opportunity open for others.”
Obama then appeared to upstage Trump and other wealthy people by saying that people like her and Harris “will never benefit” from generational wealth.
Obama ended her speech with a nod to her popular 2016 slogan: “When they go low, we go high.”
“We have the power to pass on the love, the sweat and the sacrifice of our mothers and fathers and all those who came here before us,” she said. “Let us work as if our lives depend on it.”
“And let us continue to move our country forward, and go higher, yes always higher, than we have ever gone before.”
