Do you remember Trump’s speech when he decided to start chasing the  African American vote? He gave it Tuesday, in West Bend, Wisc., a city about an hour’s drive from Milwaukee which is were riots had been taking place following a fatal police shooting of a black man.

Why Trump gave the speech in West Bend is still not clear. It is a city of a little more than 31,000 people. According to the 2010 census, 1.0 percent of the population is African American.

We’re not sure if there were African Americans in the crowd. The Donald didn’t point out to the gathering that there were. Nor did he single out someone and tell the crowd to “look at my African American over here” as he did during a June rally in Redding, Calif.

The speech was generally known not so much for what Trump said as it was for how he said it. He mostly got points for reading someone else’s words from a teleprompter without going off the rails.

His campaign was so proud of him that a press release quickly went out with quotes from media members citing the wonderful things being said about him and his speech.

Among them was a quote from Jill Colvin, a reporter with the Associated Press. “Jill Colvin: ‘Trump Sounds Like He’s Talking Directly To African Americans …’ (Twitter.com, 8/16/16)”

It is accurate if you are only interested in using part of the quote and that’s all his campaign was interested in. Oh, and check out the hash tag on Trump’s tweet.