Morehouse president ‘disappointed’ after meeting with Trump

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Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., president of Morehouse College, says he was disappointed after leaving the meeting on Tuesday at the White House with several HBCU presidents and President Donald Trump.

Wilson said that his disappointment stemmed not from his own expectations but from the promises that the administration had been touting before the meeting. The White House had been calling the executive order that Trump signed on Tuesday “revolutionary” when in fact it more or less moved the HBCU initiative away from the Department of Education and into the executive office of White House instead.

What’s more, no money was earmarked because of the executive order, a move that has many critics speaking out against the order as not doing nearly enough.

“I don’t mind saying, that we were- a number of us -were disappointed, not because of what we thought on our own leading up to this meeting, but what we were led to think,” Wilson said. “And so I think it was a little underwhelming to see that the most tangible differentiator that happened here was an office relocation.”

“In general, the meetings were a troubling beginning to what must be a productive relationship,” he added.