by Frank Holmes, reporter
If you listened to the mainstream media reports, you would believe President Donald Trump hated Hispanics more than any other ethnic group in America.
CNN once “reported” that “Trump is dehumanizing Latinos.”
“Here’s the truth,” blared one hate-filled New York Times op-ed. “Donald Trump is a racist.”
“For Latinos trying to survive the Age of Trump with their dignity intact,” wrote Ruben Navarette, a so-called Republican. He added, “the hate just keeps on coming.”
Well, don’t look now, Navarette – because Hispanics are thriving more than they have in decades.
New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that – in “the Age of Trump” – Hispanics have seen lower unemployment, higher wages, and more money in their bank accounts than former President Barack Obama could ever dreamed of delivering!
Hispanic unemployment is at an all-time low – less than 5% – and it has been for five solid months.
Hispanics aren’t just working more: They’re cashing bigger paychecks. Their earnings spiked 3.7% after inflation.
The Census shows that Hispanics are getting ahead faster than any other group in America. Their new report proves that Hispanic wages increased more than twice as much as any other ethnic group.
Hispanic Americans own more businesses, too. Since 2007, Hispanic Americans have opened almost twice as many businesses as every other single racial or ethnic group in the United States.
That’s a funny way of Trump to show his “racism,” isn’t it?
If racism means that Hispanics get ahead, then Trump is racist. But if it means holding an ethnic group back, then the most racist president in recent years was Obama.
“Contrast this to the Obama economy,” Alfredo Ortiz, the the CEO of the Job Creators Network, wrote in The Hill. “It took until 2015 for Hispanic household incomes to finally get back to their 2006 levels.”
The economy is so good now that Obama is trying to claim credit… but Hispanics shouldn’t be fooled.
For 9 years – and 6 of them with Obama in charge – Hispanic Americans stood still… or fell behind.
Now, less than two years after the Democrats got booted out of office, Trump has made Hispanic-America great again!
Things are so good that Trump just couldn’t resist bragging a little bit this week at an event highlighting Hispanic citizens.
“The poverty rate for Hispanics just reached a new all-time historic low,” Trump announced at a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration held in the East Room of the White House on Monday.
“Nearly 350,000 Hispanics were lifted out of poverty in 2017,” Trump told the crowd.
“That’s pretty good,” he said. “These are very hard numbers to beat.”
“I better win the Hispanics next time, right?” Trump said.
Trump is still a ways from being the Hispanics most popular president – but he’s gaining solid ground and making Democratic Party bosses sweat bullets.
A Harvard/Harris poll found Hispanic support for Trump jumped 10 points this summer – but for some reason, the media decided not to put that on the front page.
Other polls show Latinos split evenly on whether they support or oppose Trump, and Republicans in Congress – but 50/50 is a big increase for the GOP.
Republican candidates’ poll numbers with Hispanics are still low, but they’re high enough to scare liberals to death. The voter base they’ve spent so long pandering to may not turn out to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections this November.
Why should they? What have the Democrats ever given them?
They refused to pass the president’s DACA fix.
They ruined the economy.
Their left-wing policies cost Hispanics their jobs and closed down the businesses they poured their whole lives into.
Trump sees an America where everyone – native-born and legal immigrants – get ahead… and he’s already delivered.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”