Washington (AP)-In one of his last rallies about the 2024 elections, Donald Trump warned that Black Americans had lost their work in droves and that things would get worse if he did not return to the White House.
“You should ask you to give you the number of how many blacks will lose your job,” said Trump. “The African American population, they are fired on numbers that we have never seen before.”
But with Trump since January since January, an already delicate financial situation for black Americans has deteriorated. Last year, the black voters had accelerated with tariffs, upset about inflation and affordability problems in relation to the promise to boost the economy by completing the border crossing and the challenge of foreign factories. Instead, a recent flood of business data shows an extended racial wealth gap.
So far, black unemployment has risen from 6.2% to 7.5% in 2025, the highest level since October 2021. According to an analysis by the real estate broker Redfin, the lowest level has dropped since 2021. At the beginning of this month, the census said that the middle black household income lasted at $ 56,020 by $ 3.3%, which is less than 36,000 US dollars less than a white budget and evidence that a bad situation is deteriorated.
This creates a great political risk for the president and an economic danger to the nation, since the losses of jobs for black Americans have historically held a broader series of layoffs in other groups.
“Black Americans are often the canaries in the coal mine,” said Angela Hanks, former official of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Ministry of Labor, who is now at the Century Foundation, a liberal thought factory.
The Trump White House emphasized that some of these downward trends, such as a relative decline in black assets, began under the democratic president Joe Biden. It was emphasized that politics “diversity, justice and inclusion” did not make any economic profits from Democrats.
“Despite his crazy obsession with Dei, Joe Biden’s catastrophic economic agenda reduced the black proportion of household assets by almost 25%,” said the spokesman for the White House, Kush Desai. “His inflation policy led to interest increases that inspire Americans from home ownership, and his policy of open limits flooded the country with ten million illegals that promote wages.”
Some black voters see Trump’s politics more to hurt than lend a hand
Some black voters who stayed on the edge in 2024 have the feeling that they are more politically committed.
Josh Garrett, a 30-year-old seller in Florida, said he couldn’t find a candidate last year with whom he agreed. He is frustrated by Trump’s layoffs of federal workers and sees a government that is more geared towards billionaires than the middle class.
“I don’t understand how they could be for the American people and the Americans lose their work when they have families,” said Garrett.
While the financial prospects for black Americans deteriorate, the net wealth of white households continues largely steadily or increasingly, which is particularly due to the performance of the stock markets.
Hanks notes that the “chaotic effects” of Trump’s tariffs and spending cuts are currently more vulnerable, but that the damage could soon spread beyond.
Black leaders see Trump’s politics as discriminatory based on the breed as discriminatory
The federal statements seem to have disproportionately affected black Americans because they make up a sensible proportion of the state workforce. The administration claims that their income tax cuts, tariffs and deportations of immigrants who are illegally in the United States will lend a hand the black Americans, but so far there are only a few evidence of the data of it.
At the same time, Trump said that he wants to employ the national guard to Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore and Memphis, Tennessee – cities that are led by black mayors. The president demanded the newly draw congress districts to favor Republicans, which could water down the ability of black voters to form elections. He tried to reduce the legacy of slavery and separation from the Smithsonian Museums.
“The message they send is very clear: in these places these people are unable to rule themselves,” said Brandon Scott, the mayor of Baltimore. “You are unable to solve your own problems. And do not make a mistake, it is partly on what we look like.”
The Democrat warned that the increasing economic challenges could contribute to crime in the future, and the progress that cities have made in recent years to reduce the murse rates.
Trump may not afford to alienate black voters
Black Americans are the dominant core of the democratic basis, although Trump has improved his reputation with them. In 2024, Trump won 16% of black voters and doubled his share of 2020, according to AP VUTECAST, a comprehensive overview of the electorate. One of the most critical differences seemed frustrated about inflation and affordability.
About a third of the black voters (36%) in the 2024 presidential election stated that the economy and jobs were the most critical problem for the country, compared to 11% in 2020, when Coronavirus pandemic was the most critical problem.
In a survey by the Associated Press Norc Center for Public Affairs for Public Affairs, about half of black adults (52%) said that the amount of money they received was an “important” source of stress in their lives, somewhat higher than for US-growing overall (43%) and for white adults (37%).
When it comes to income, some indicate the conservative movement that black households are more susceptible, since there are fewer of them in married families who generally tend to have a higher income.
Delano Squires, a scholarship holder of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said that the “connection between family structure and financial stability is quite consistent over time”.
The immediate political reality is that Trump had a mandate to improve the economy for the middle class, including the black voters. Many of these voters now see an administration that expands more on the deportation of immigrants and expand their own power and possibly threaten the opportunities of the Republicans to the house and the most critical seats of the Senate in the elections of the next year.
“We are in a new era,” said Alexsis Rodgers, political director at Black Futures Lab. “There are people who obviously believed in his promises that Trump would do something about the costs of eggs that would do the costs for accommodation. Instead, they saw the focus on ice attacks and reduced the government.”
