Black Lives Matter Leader Endorses Trump: 'Everybody Else Sucks'

A Black Lives Matter (BLM) leader is backing former President Donald Trump to take back the White House in the 2024 presidential election.

Mark Fisher, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island and founder of BLM Incorporated, said that he "personally" liked Trump before bashing President Joe Biden as a "deep disappointment" during an interview last week on The Kim Iversen Show, a streaming program on conservative platform Rumble.

BLM, a decentralized social movement focused on racism and other issues faced by Black Americans, is more often associated with the political left than the right-wing populist politics espoused by Trump.

Iversen, a self-proclaimed "tell it like it is, no b.s. broadcaster" who has reportedly been called a "conspiracy theorist" by former colleagues, asked Fisher to explain why he chose to go against the grain and endorse Trump.

"Because everybody else sucks," Fisher responded, prompting a chuckle from Iversen. "You know, I like Trump personally and I think right now who we have sitting in the Oval Office is just a deep disappointment ... I deeply have disdain for him and I really dislike the vice president [Kamala Harris] as well."

After being asked by Iversen whether he felt "alone" as a BLM leader endorsing Trump, he said he did not, arguing that "a lot of" other Black people were leaving the "Democratic plantation" and embracing Trump instead.

"I feel like the tide is starting to turn," Fisher said. "I feel like a lot of Black people are starting to pivot off of that Democratic plantation. For so long, we've been slaves to that party. Actually, we've been mental slaves, afraid to get off of that plantation."

"That party ... they don't value our vote," he continued. "Their policies are basically racist policies. I believe that it's a racist party that strikes at the heart of the Black family and the nuclear family in general. And I believe Donald Trump, he's the opposite."

Newsweek reached out for comment to Trump's office via email on Wednesday.

Fisher, a former pastor, later explained that he was opposed to Democrats because they "introduced abortion" and were for "different unnatural policies that go against laws of nature" and "procreation."

He went on to say that "Trump has done more for the Black community than any president I can think of." In a recent interview with right-wing newspaper The Epoch Times, Fisher claimed that Trump "doesn't brag about" his accomplishments with the Black community.

In fact, Trump has been anything but shy when it comes to boasting about his claimed value to Black voters, having declared in a 2020 tweet on Twitter, now X, that he "has done more for the Black Community than any President since Abraham Lincoln."

In addition to endorsing Trump, Fisher has also declared his support for those who violently attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election result by storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, describing convicted rioters as political prisoners who were jailed for mere "dissent."

Fisher was not a founder of the national BLM movement, which gained popularity when protests against police brutality ramped up following the fatal 2014 police shooting of unarmed Black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Trump and other Republicans became increasingly critical of BLM following mass protests in the wake of the 2020 police murder of George Floyd. The former president has called BLM a "symbol of hate" and falsely claimed that the movement's original message was "kill the police."