"Black people are too stupid" say the president....

Trump said 'black people are too stupid' to vote for him, according to his lawyer

Drew Costley

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, revealed that Trump made several anti-black statements prior to getting elected to the presidency.

"We were going from the airport to the hotel, and we drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood. Trump made a comment to me, saying that only the blacks could live like this," Cohen told Vanity Fair writer Emily Jane Fox in an interview that was published on Friday.

Cohen reportedly told Vanity Fair that Trump made those comments in the late 2000s during a trip to Chicago. Vanity Fair reported Cohen said Trump declared black people "too stupid" to vote for him and that every country run by a black leader is a "s—hole."

The report comes just days after the White House held a summit of young black conservatives, where Trump attributed his increased approval rating amongst blacks to his relationship with rapper Kanye West.

He also asked the crowd of black, MAGA hat-wearing youth (moments after announcing that a man was apprehended for allegedly sending mail-bombs to prominent Democrats), "Who gets attacked more than me?"

On Monday, Oct. 29, a Rasmussen poll revealed that Trump's approval rating amongst blacks was 40 percent, the highest it has been since he took office.

Cohen's comments to Vanity Fair run counter to previous comments he has made defending Trump against charges of racism. The president came under scrutiny for his response to violent white nationalist protests in Charlottesville in August 2017. Around the same time, Cohen told Business Insider that the president "doesn't have a racist bone in his body. All morning I am receiving horrific comments about being anti-black, racist, etc. for supporting Trump. It's just wrong!"

In the hours since the Vanity Fair article was published, people have expressed everything from outrage to deflection to "I-told-you-so" over Cohen's accusations.

"When asked why Trump's #MAGA crowds are so white, Michael Cohen says that @realDonaldTrump said that black people are too stupid to vote for him," wrote Twitter user @EBoyajy. "Actually...black people are too smart to vote for him."

YouTube personalist Paul Joseph Watson said, "Hillary Clinton literally said that all black people look the same, a story that the media barely touched. That same media is now running breathless coverage of unsubstantiated claims from Michael Cohen about Trump supposedly making racist remarks. But there's no bias, honest!"

And writer and filmmaker dream hampton wrote on Twitter, "I hate when white people need white people generated evidence to believe the s— we been knew."