Trump on Carson: ‘We’re Going to Do Great Things in the African-American Communities Together’

“I want to thank a great friend of mine, Dr. Ben Carson, and his beautiful family, Candy and the whole family, for joining us today. It is very special to accompany him and his family for the first time seeing the Carson exhibit. The first time. I am so proud. I love this guy. He is a great guy, really a great guy. And he can tell you better than me, but ll tell you what, we really started something with Ben. We’re very, very proud of him. Hopefully, next week he will get his approval about three or four weeks late and you are doing better than most, right? But the Democrats, they’ll come along. I have no doubt they’ll come along. Ben will do a fantastic job at HUD. I have absolutely no doubt he will be one of the great ever in that position. He grew up in Detroit and had very little. He defied every statistic. He graduated from Yale and went on to the university of Michigan medical school and became a brilliant, totally brilliant neurosurgeon. Saved many lives and helped many, many people. We’re going to do great things in our African-American communities together, Ben will work with me very, very closely. And HUD has a meaning far beyond housing. If properly done, it is a meaning that is as big as anything there is. And Ben will be able to find that true meaning, and true meaning of HUD as its secretary. So I just look forward to watching that. He will do things that nobody ever thought of.”