Lizzo responded to comments made by President Trump by saying that the country will be “proud” and “resilient” like Detroit.
Larger-than-life popstar Lizzo faced backlash after she sang Detroit’s praises, boasting that the entire country will “be like Detroit” at an event for VP Kamala Harris's presidential candidacy on Saturday.
Lizzo appeared with the Dem candidate for president at a rally in Michigan after former president Donald Trump said disparagingly that the country would end up like Detroit if Harris wins: “I mean, the whole country is going to be like — you want to know the truth — it’ll be like Detroit… Our whole country will end up being like Detroit,” he said.
Lizzo responded to the comment say that the country will be “proud” and “resilient” like Detroit.
Detroit, once America’s fourth-largest city and richest city, has gone through decades of challenges as most of its manufacturing might has faded. Detroit currently has an 8.8 percent unemployment rate, twice the national average, and has consistently ranked as one of the country’s most dangerous cities. While things have improved incrementally for the Paris of the midwest in recent years, such as having put up its lowest homicide figures in 57 years last year, many were quick to pan Lizzo’s comments.
“That’s what we fear,” one X user commented. “She’s not wrong… and that’s not good,” another user posted.
"I dont think she understands how this message is landing," said another.
"Isn’t Detroit a disaster??" said another, simply.
Michigan has proven to be one of the tougher battleground races for former president Trump. While other battleground states have polled more favourably for Trump, one recent poll has Harris leading up 8 percent. The Bullfinch Group poll have Harris at 53 percent to Trump’s 45 in a head-to-head match up. Trump had previously won the state in his successful 2016 bid for president, but would go on to lose the state in his 2020 match-up with President Joe Biden. The state has built some blue momentum and has maintained it, re-electing Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2022.
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2024-10-20T15:08-0500 | Comment by: Marie
except she's right! "equal outcomes" means the unfavored will all live like welfare families in Detroit, not like suburbanites in Westchester county