‘I Love Black People’: Trump Claims No One Else Would Have Stopped The War In ‘Deepest And Darkest Africa’

President Donald Trump decried anyone who has claimed he’s ‘racist’ by pointing out his efforts to stop the war in “deepest and darkest Africa.”

During an Oval Office executive order signing ceremony on Monday, Trump mused about renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War when he brought up war in Africa.

“As the Department of War, we won everything. We won everything. I think we’ll have to go back to that. In the meantime, I’ve stopped all of these wars. I’ve stopped them. A big one would have been India and Pakistan. We stopped them all. We stopped three wars.”

He continued:

Go to Africa, they like to say, “Oh, you know” — I love Black people and I did great with the vote with the Black people — but they say, “He’s a racist, he’s a racist.” I said really? For 35 years the war waged between Rwanda and the Republic of the Congo. And it was a vicious war. Nine million people were killed, with machetes largely — hatchets, machetes. That went on for more than 30 years —34, 35 years — and I stopped it. In fact, the presidents are coming in a week or two to sign — we have the foreign ministers — to all sign. The war stopped.

But, I got it stopped and saved a lot of lives. The Congo, it’s deep into the deepest and darkest Africa. I got that war stopped. Nobody else could have done that. We did a lot of jobs, a lot of wars were stopped that nobody thought would be possible.

NPR reported last week that the violence in the Congo is far from over: “Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed 141 villagers in July, Human Rights Watch said…despite hopes that President Trump-backed peace talks would end long-running violence in the troubled region.”

Watch the clip above via Fox News.