NAACP won't invite Trump to its national convention. He will be 1st president excluded in 116 years

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Scripps News

Posted 4:30 PM, Jun 16, 2025

The NAACP announced Monday the group will not invite President Donald Trump to its national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina, the first time the prominent civil rights organization has opted to exclude a sitting president in its 116-year history.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson announced the move at an afternoon press conference, accusing Trump of working against its mission. "This has nothing to do with political party," Johnson said in a statement. "Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights."

A message to the White House seeking comment was not immediately returned. In recent months, the NAACP has filed multiple lawsuits against Trump.

In April, for example, the group sued to stop the Department of Education from withholding federal money for schools that did not end diversity, equity and inclusion programs, arguing the department was prohibiting legal efforts to provide equal opportunity to Black students. NAACP officials noted that the decision was weighty in that the organization had long invited presidents with whom it disagreed.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/the-president/naacp-wont-invite-trump-to-its-national-convention-he-will-be-1st-president-excluded-in-116-years

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Who can blame them?! Good Grief!

[Gimpyknee]

2. You think that POS cares?

Wouldn’t want to pull him away from his golfing.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Perspective: 116 years starts at 1909

That means the NAACP invited Woodrow Wilson when he was President -- and he was racist as f*ck.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. That was when they were established

with W.E.B. Dubois as co-founder.

https://historianspeaks.org/blog/f/founding-of-the-naacp-19091





ETA - this was a catalyst to the destruction that you see now by the supremacist who has hijacked the White House and they haven't recovered since. The head-explosions that are wrecking havoc on this country's very existence.

The 44th President, who had the honor and privilege to address the NAACP's 100th anniversary convention in 2009, his first year in office -

[twodogsbarking]

5. Well that is a big favor to Trump.

[Canada Kid]

6. Gimmie a good reason...

Why would the NAACP ever want to invite a stone-cold racist KKK loving, white trash asshole like Trump after all he has done to undermine Black America??

[BumRushDaShow]

7. He was invited in 2017 (they have invited them all)

2017

Trump declines invitation to speak at NAACP convention

By Ayesha Rascoe
July 19, 2017 5:40 PM EDT Updated 8 years ago


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has declined an invitation to address the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday. The White House did not offer any details on why Trump would not speak to the 108-year-old civil rights group.

"My understanding is that the invitation has been declined for this year," Sanders told reporters at a briefing. She said that while Trump would not speak at the conference, the White House would be happy to have a dialogue with the group. "We would certainly like to be able to continue to do that," Sanders said. The NAACP did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Trump had declined to speak at the NAACP convention last year because it coincided with the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where he was formally nominated as the party's presidential candidate. Previous Republican presidential nominees regularly attended the annual meetings of the oldest U.S. civil rights organization.

Trump's most recent predecessors in the White House, Barack Obama, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a Republican, both delivered speeches to the NAACP during their time in office.

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RAYGUN - 1981

Even Truman - 1947 (audio) - https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/june-29-1947-address-naacp

[Wonder Why]

8. He has urgent national issues to deal with - like the back nine at Mar-a-Lago.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He's usually not down there in the heat of the summer

but up further north - normally Bedminister but recently, his Sterling place.

[Paladin]

10. Well done, NAACP!

trump will pretend it doesn't matter to him, but this insult will eat him up.

[republianmushroom]

11. This will smart and leave a mark.

[NotHardly]

12. Their courage against the Great Orange Blob should be celebrated!