Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has made the rich richer, ignoring demands of "descendants of the formerly enslaved."

Brandon Johnson says Trump has made the rich richer, ignoring demands of "descendants of the formerly enslaved." "This is the president who just released the largest upward transfer of wealth into the hands of the ultra-rich at the expense of the demands of those of us who are descendants of the formerly enslaved." "The largest upward transfer of wealth at the expense of education, housing, health care, transportation, good paying jobs, which literally were all the demands of the formerly enslaved." This is reparations rhetoric, even though he didn't use the word. That's what he's mad about.

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