Trump is set to cut millions from historically black colleges and universities. But once 1.5 trillion for the military industrial complex in America, I have the full story. Here it [00:00:20] is. We are living under the administration of the greatest president in our lifetime, President Trump. was the president who fully funded historically black college and university. He's not a divisive president. We saw that in the past for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. [00:00:38] And I have to say as a black woman, I hated it. I hated every minute of it. But when President Trump talks about policies, that's what we talk about in the black community. We don't want this handout, we want to hand up. And so that's what he's delivered with the first step back with the HBCU funding. I think that he's done more for the black community than any president [00:00:57] before him. especially in my lifetime. It's a regular question, it's an ongoing question before I even start to address Trump and how he permanently funded HBCUs. We have a president who stands strong and tall for the black community and opportunity zones, the highest funding [00:01:14] for HBCUs in the history of the country. Put them all up, full mass. [00:01:29] you all would have made excellent slaves. Top knot. I'm talking about your house material. Standing up, holding the water for your master. that is only your master in mind. Every single [00:01:53] one of you, I'm talking about the black folk on that screen, can intellectually run circles around Donald Trump. But you cheapen yourself, lessen your value, and you don't strengthen [00:02:09] nor honor the name of your family or your community when you do things like this. Now challenge every single one of you to come on this program. Debate me on the fact that the invitation will remain open. If all four of you want to come at the same time, we can do that. [00:02:29] Trump proposed a fiscal 2027 budget. This happened Friday. This budget now calls for the elimination of three key educational access programs and 354 million in grants for minority serving [00:02:47] institutions as part of a plan to shrink the US Department of Education's overall funding. Remember day one, day one when he appointed the Secretary of Education. right here. I said this is to gut the Department of Education. Ironically, the Department of Education is [00:03:08] where black people, one of the few places where black people are overrepresented per capita to population ratio. So he guts the department. He's now saying he's going to shrink the budget [00:03:26] coming from the Department of Education. And he's going to shrink the specifically for minority serving institutions, HBCUs. And I'm going to explain the direct cause and effect of the policy because there's some confusion about that. We're going to set the record straight. [00:03:45] uh Are you paying less tax? Do you pay less taxes? Because if you're not paying less taxes, why is he deciding to cut programs? that benefit you, your children, and your children's children. [00:04:06] It's the difference between somebody perhaps robbing you or somebody asking, can they be employed by you? It's called education. You're not paying less taxes, but he's deciding [00:04:23] to provide less services for the tax money. The Department of Education is an institution. What the Department of Education did was distribute, distribute not money, opportunity. Trump has [00:04:42] proposed eliminating 1.6 billion in funding for Trio and Gear Up. I'm going to explain what Trio and Gear Up means. According to Education Department documents, help disadvantaged students [00:04:58] prepare for and persist in college. The budget proposal would also eliminate all, all, $910 million for the federal supplemental educational opportunity grant, which provided aid for the [00:05:16] lowest income students. Okay, I'm an HBCU professor, been one since, well, 2016. The vast majority [00:05:35] of our scholars in order to supplement the additional cost for tuition after Pell Grant, after financial aid, after a loan or two, are these very programs we're talking about. Now [00:05:54] let's go to the Federal Trio program. There are some people online believing the lie from the White House perhaps that this does not target HBCUs. It's a damn lie. Let me explain. The federal TRIO program is connected to a program that you know is upward bound. The federal [00:06:13] TRIO program targets, emphasizes first year college students in at risk environments. I've benefited from that same Trio program personally. Without that Trio program, I don't have money [00:06:32] to submit applications. Because back then applications cost $20 here, $50 there, just submit them. They paid for that. They gave me mentoring. They also provided the cost to take the damn [00:06:49] SATs. When you are a foster child in the city of Atlanta, you don't have extra change laying around in order to purchase these items. Trio program did that. Fast forward, get into college, [00:07:04] graduate. Clark Atlanta University, I become a program director and coordinator for the federal trio program, but we're bound under Ms. Phyllis Wyatt at Clark Atlanta University. That funding keeps the ecosystem going to make sure that HBCUs can reach those that they are [00:07:27] good at reaching. So when they say it's not affecting HBCUs or we're not taking money from HBCUs, understand the game they're running. The bill, the legislation won't say category [00:07:44] HBCU. It will say federal trio program. How many white colleges get it? How many black colleges have That's how you understand exactly what they're doing. There's more. The proposal would dramatically reduce federal work spending. Why? funding to 123 million, a 90 % reduction [00:08:12] from fiscal 2025 levels. The program provides a part time job to students based on need to help them pay for their education. Offices within the education department would also see big cuts. The Office for Civil Rights, you don't say? Which investigates what? Discrimination. [00:08:37] harassment on college campuses would have its budget trimmed to 91 million, a 35 % reduction from the fiscal 2025 levels. [00:08:53] Donald Trump is saying clearly he has no love for HBCUs. Now, I've been a straight shooter about this. I'm the guy who said on live radio, Obama is no friend to HBCUs. because he did [00:09:09] not prioritize. He never had an HBCU experience. It was a foreign idea to him. Presidents knew this, they would not dare say it, not publicly, because, well, parents and students, they [00:09:26] would revolt. That's the first black president. And I love our dear brother Obama, but I loved him too much to not say anything. So I- damn would say something here. To every single, [00:09:43] put those step and fetch Negroes back up, Jordan, please. If these individuals do not release a public apology. To those who follow them, to those [00:10:03] who believed in their commentary, to those who perhaps may have been swayed by their political influence. If they don't apologize to you. They're not worthy of your followership. [00:10:22] Because sincerity has to say at a point, I made a damn mistake. Now there are plenty of white Republicans who have said that we're the black. Where you at? You don't have the freedom to have an opinion. You can't change your mind like everybody else. With the United States [00:10:42] at war with Iran, and in brooding conflicts around the world, the White House requested that Congress on Friday, approve about 1.5 trillion for defense in the 2027 fiscal year. If enacted [00:10:59] that amount would set military spending at its highest level in modern history. The request which arrived as part of Trump's new budget would amount to a roughly 40 % increase from what the United States spent on the Pentagon this fiscal year. The administration coupled [00:11:17] the proposal with a call for 73 billion in cuts spread across domestic agencies. The things that help you and me, including the elimination of key federal health, housing and education programs, some of which serve minority groups and serve the poor. Now please don't conflate [00:11:40] um military spending with military spending. Over 80 % of the money the Pentagon receives, over 80 % goes to everything but national defense. That is a fact, check it out. Democrats and [00:12:00] Republicans have recently expressed a shared unease about raising military spending to the extent that Trump has suggested, spreading that the administration has failed to keep them updated about the status of the Iran War. which is now in its fifth week. It's sad. [00:12:27] He's asking Congress, let me just talk to the Democrats. He's asking Democrats to give him over $1 The Democrats are talking as if this is legitimate. The damn war is illegal. only [00:12:47] Congress can enact articles of war via the Constitution. So what are we talking about? You launch an illegal war, you can't pay for it, you have to go to Congress. Congress is a co equal branch of the US government. And they're considering giving you less, not [00:13:08] exactly what you want for the illegal war, that makes you complicit in it. Madam, Mr. Congresswoman, congressman. Funding. an illegal war. All right, your brother thoughts. Many, many, many thoughts. [00:13:26] First of all, there is a word for those, um I don't know why my phone's up, wake up the sin. ah There is a word for what those black individuals are. I'm not going to say it, ah but you let your mind wander. And you cannot be a black Republican, especially a mainstream [00:13:46] black Republican and have an opinion. All these things, so I don't expect any of them will come out and offer an apology. I mean, Tim Scott issued a statement after Donald Trump posted video with the Obamas as damn monkeys. And he said, hey, maybe that was a little too far and they jumped on his throat, down his throat and about to run him out town on [00:14:04] rail. You just cannot, you cannot have an opinion and be a black Republican. They want you to toe the pardon line. Your whole existence is to give them an excuse. You are the black friend that they refer to. they say something racist and they said, well, no, I cannot be racist [00:14:20] because I have this book, you are that person. I have this book. I think that the Democratic Party has neglected black voters in this country for a while, they've taken them for granted. And I've heard that argument a bunch during the 2012 and for election cycle and then the [00:14:36] black cycle boy. And I think that's just a percent this truth in that. However, the alternative is a non starter completely. The only thing they had to the hats on is that he gave funding to HBCUs. But Donald Trump is a racist through and through and through. He doesn't care about, [00:14:52] first of all, he only cares about himself, but let alone people who don't look like him. He's only there to enrich himself and enrich his donor class. Black people ain't nowhere in the equation for him, never have been, will. I think he was on slaves, it was legal. um [00:15:07] And he's the reverse Robin Hood. So his whole presidency is taken from those who are less fortunate who are in need of government assistance and giving it to the people who do not. So we're already spending more than the next 10 countries combined on our military budget. And now he's asking for even more. to hell with you if you ask what we're doing. To hell [00:15:27] with you if ask what's the purpose of being in Iran. One of these goals is you keep listening. The goalposts keep shifting. He becomes more more nebulous. One day he's up, the next day he's down. And he doesn't even feel as though or recognize it is his responsibility to be accountable. anyone, let alone a political branch of government, but anyone. So I'm not the [00:15:47] least bit shocked. There will probably still be some folks who look like you and I who have some excuse as to why they should be supported for such a terrible person. But they have been in all of history. mean, slavery was propagated largely because of black slaves who identified [00:16:04] themselves with the folks that didn't look nothing like them and who had the whip in their hand as opposed to. brothers and sisters who were struggling. this is a tale as old as time, there'll always be folks like this, unfortunately. Sad but true. um And I believe truly that the universe operates in a very particular way. Nothing happens to you or against you, not [00:16:26] truly. It all happens for you if you understand what to do with it. If you understand how to respond, here's your silver lining. What's happening now is temporary. More people, way more people [00:16:45] have awakened due to this presidency than eight years of Obama. People should now know, even if you had a good faith belief, that these types of leaders care [00:17:04] about you. That they are in rooms and meetings and rooms advocating for you, making decisions with you in mind. This should have uncovered the veil enough for all of us to structure [00:17:20] and restructure our ideology back here. Let me, I remember another thing he said recently in the press conference. It may have been last week, but he essentially eluded to the fact that, the federal government should not be in the business of funding daycares or stuff like [00:17:39] Medicare and Medicaid. And that was a campaign promise he made, daycare. Right, protect these things. So he's outright to say, well, you know what? Really the only thing I wanna do, or really only thing I think I have a responsibility to do is to fund our military to wage war. in random places across the city. you and your unhealthy children and your sickness and your [00:17:57] healthcare, that's your problem, not mine. So I hope if they're not woken up because of that, I don't know what on earth will wake somebody up. But he definitely does not think he's at all connected to you or your family or your economy or anything else. Like I say to my [00:18:15] students, sometimes you need to be approached by a villain to realize you're a hero. is opportunity.