Near the end of his wide-ranging press conference Thursday, President Donald Trump took a question about meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.
The caucus, which was founded in 1971, currently has 49 members of the House and Senate. Caucus members represent 78 million Americans, including 17 million African-Americans, according to the caucus.
“You want to set up the meeting? Do you want to set up the meeting?” Trump asked April Ryan, White House correspondent for the American Urban Radio Networks who asked the question. Ryan is black. “Are they friends of yours?”
Ryan replied that she did not want to set up the meeting.
“No, I’m just a reporter,” she said. “I know some of them.”
“Set up the meeting. Let’s go set up a meeting. I would love to meet with the black caucus, I think it’s great. The Congressional Black Caucus, I think it’s great,” Trump said.