Donald Trump was ridiculed Saturday after attending what his campaign called a Black roundtable at a Detroit church — with photos showing a largely white audience.
Trump’s campaign reached out to the 180 Church to set up the event at which attendees asked a handful of questions before bursting into a rendition of Happy Birthday.
The evangelical church is in the heart of Detroit’s west side and has a mainly Black congregation.
But photos caught by the media, and shared widely online, showed a lot of white people in the audience.
More images from reporters on various social media:
Oh my god, I saw a meme about this and I didn’t think it was really a photo from the event.
God he sucks
I thought it was fake too
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-paper-shoe/
If you’d put this in a satire movie circa 2014 people would have called it too over the top.
I thought it was disrespectful to wear your hat in church. Huh.
It’s historically disrespectful for (men) to wear a hat indoors in quite a few buildings. That guy there looks like he’d be old enough to know better.
And iirc the historical reason it’s not disrespectful for women to keep their hat on is that hats were much more integrated into women’s hairdos. So, it’d be a whole production of removing hat pins, re-arranging curls, etc.
That might be part of it and seems practical. I think another was that men taking off a helmet/lifting a visor was a thing - similar to (possible?) origins of the handshake - military men signifying they mean no harm.
Norms change over time - used to be, until JFK, there was even more rituals conformed to around men and hats until he came along. JFK was apparently blamed for men mostly abandoning the hat, but apparently that was building before he came along…in today’s world, I don’t know that it makes a whole lot of sense for something decorative like a hat to have all these rules only apply to one gender…might have been a time when someone got the vapors over a guy not removing his hat when he entered a library, church, etc…but I suppose that sort of thing is fading nearly daily. People don’t always wear a suit and tie everywhere, either…
While it doesn’t really exude “classy” vibes to have some guy sitting in a church wearing a hat, or, even worse, a hat with a slogan most Americans associate with a hate group, but if violating fading fashion norms was all these people were doing, I doubt too many would care.
Yeah hats went way down long before JFK like pre WWII
That’s an interesting theory but there are many churches where women are supposed to put on a hat especially for church.
Probably it has more to do with this rather ridiculous passage from Corinthians:
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
Wait so is this saying hair counts as a hat?
No. If you have hair, it needs to be covered. If you don’t cover it, then you ought to shave it. But women shouldn’t shave their heads. So they should wear hats. But if you don’t have hair, you shouldn’t wear a hat.
“that guy”? The are dozens of them… This isn’t a church service, it’s clearly a cult service.
Stop, I can only get so erect.
Happy cake day!
Thank you! Does your app show?
Yes, the standard website.
That cropping. Seriously I thought there was a hair on my phone.
Oh definitely - even in that pic above there are several, but I was talking about the guy in the red shirt near the front in the pic above.
It is.
From what I remember, it is
It’s never been about Christianity. It’s really a new religion - the only parts of the Bible they know are the anti-queer parts.
As a Christian, it disgusts me how these people are pretending
The guy wouldn’t even take his RED HAT in the church.
I saw someone wearing a Maga hat at their kids highschool graduation this past week. I just can’t fathom how someone is so cringe that they can’t put politics aside to be happy for their kid.
They can’t put aside who they are
Looks like there were several men in there wearing hats. The hat “rules” don’t apply to women, but I see a few women wearing that hat, too.