Clark Atlanta rejects Trump declare that he “saved” them

Clark Atlanta College leaders have pushed again on Donald Trump’s claims that he “saved” the traditionally Black establishment when he spoke at a rally at Georgia State College on Saturday.

In the course of the rally, the Republican presidential nominee invited up Michaelah Montgomery, a Clark Atlanta alumna and conservative activist. Trump recounted to the group how he first met her in a restaurant earlier this 12 months, and he mentioned she thanked him for the federal COVID-19 reduction funds that went to traditionally Black faculties and universities throughout the pandemic.

“She seems at me, says, ‘It’s President Trump. You saved my faculty.’ And I mentioned, ‘How the hell are you aware that?’ … This one is so sensible, so sharp,” Trump mentioned on the rally.

Clark Atlanta swiftly issued a response on social media countering the narrative that the college wanted saving.

“As amongst our nation’s 4,000 Larger Training establishments, multi-national firms, hospitals and others to have benefited from CARES and HEERF bipartisan help garnered throughout the administration of Former President Trump, Clark Atlanta College is appreciative of such help, however was not ‘saved’ by COVID funding,” the college’s assertion learn.

The put up goes on so as to add that Clark Atlanta, like all HBCUs, “stays devoted to our mission of scholar success and continued help in any respect ranges of our Democracy.”

Trump has repeatedly touted his help for HBCUs. Simply final week, Trump informed the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists that HBCUs have been “out of cash” and that he had “saved them” when “no one else was doing it.”