From a 2020 PolitiFact report:
President Donald Trump exaggerated his contributions to historically Black colleges and universities during the final presidential debate, claiming he “saved” the minority institutions when he signed a bill to permanently extend a stream of federal funding beyond 2019. Trump’s insistence that he “saved” HBCUs goes too far.
His debate-night claim also ignored that HBCUs received money via the Title III program every year under Obama, according to the U.S. Education Department. Trump said, “President Obama would never give them long-term funding, and I did. I saved historically Black colleges and universities.” We rate this mostly false.
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Trump: I funded the colleges and black colleges and universities. Nobody else did that. Nobody else even thought of it. pic.twitter.com/Cti4wCrzWK
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 6, 2024