NAACP Spurns President After Trump Earns Highest Black Support for GOP in DecadesSimon Kent 17 Jun 2025
President Donald Trump will not be invited to address the NAACP national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina. This is the first time the civil rights organization has excluded a sitting president in its 116-year history.
AP reports National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) president Derrick Johnson announced the move at a Monday afternoon press conference, accusing Trump of working against its mission.
This is despite the Republican earned the highest black support for the GOP at the last election in decades garnering some 16 percent of black votes.
https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1805656405967253880“This has nothing to do with political party,” Johnson said in a statement. “Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights.”
Johnson then went on to directly attack Trump and his policies as a threat to civil society, declaring:
But right now, it’s clear — Donald Trump is attacking our democracy and our civil rights. He believes more in the fascist playbook than in the U.S. Constitution. This playbook is radical and un-American.
The president has signed unconstitutional executive orders to oppress voters and undo federal civil rights protections; he has illegally turned the military on our communities, and he continually undermines every pillar of our democracy to make himself more powerful and to personally benefit from the U.S. government.
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