“The Reverend Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. I knew him well, long before I was president. He was a good man, with a lot of personality, courage, and street smarts. He was very affable, someone who truly loved people,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The Republican president asserted that “despite the fact that the scoundrels and lunatics of the radical left, all Democrats,” call him “a false and constant racist,” for him, “it was always a pleasure to help Jesse along the way.”

These statements by Trump come weeks after the publication of a now-deleted video on his Truth Social account showing former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama dressed as apes, which provoked harsh criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike.

According to the New York magnate, he provided office space to Jackson, a renowned civil rights activist and close collaborator. of Martin Luther King Jr., and his Rainbow Coalition organization “for years” in Trump Tower in Manhattan.

In his lengthy message, the president listed several of the issues on which he said he supported Jackson, including his backing of his plea for help in passing criminal justice reform, long-term funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBUs), “which Jesse greatly appreciated and other presidents were unwilling to do.”

He also mentioned his favorable response to Jackson’s support for Opportunity Zones, “the most successful economic development package ever passed for Black entrepreneurs.”

“Jesse was a force to be reckoned with like few before him. He had a lot to do with the election, without acknowledgment or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama,a man Jesse couldn't stand. He loved his family very much, and I send them my deepest sympathies and condolences. Jesse will be missed!,” he concluded. Jackson (1941-2026), Baptist minister and two-time U.S. presidential candidate, died Tuesday surrounded by his loved ones at the age of 84, his family announced today. Considered an iconic figure in the U.S. civil rights movement, the reverend revealed he had Parkinson's disease in 2017 and was hospitalized last November for treatment of a rare and particularly serious neurodegenerative disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).