Nothing like the chuckle I got when Trump said this:
“Nobody has done more for the Black community than Donald Trump. If you look, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, possible exception, nobody has done what I’ve done.”
— Mr. Trump
Among modern presidents, the most significant legislative achievements arguably belong to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who shepherded the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act. (Last year, the White House celebrated the passage of the Civil Rights Act as a “
historic milestone.”) Meanwhile Republican-appointed justices have gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Experts also pointed to an array of major contributions by other presidents. President Ulysses S. Grant
sent troops to South Carolina against the Ku Klux Klan to protect the constitutional rights of freed black Americans during Reconstruction. President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order desegregating
the armed forces. President Dwight D. Eisenhower enforced the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. President Jimmy Carter
diversified the judiciary, and President Bill Clinton the
executive branch.