President Trump is planning on cutting The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which will take food out of the mouths of his most loyal supporters — white men.

“At the direction of President Donald J. Trump,” U.S. Department of Agriculture chief, Sonny Perdue said in a press release issued last Thursday. “We are taking steps to restore integrity to SNAP and move people toward self-sufficiency.”

If you recall, the president received 62 percent of the white male vote back in 2016 — as he paraded around from rally to rally in his floppy red ball cap promising to deliver the country back to them or “Make America Great Again.” His followers, mostly white, salivated at their chance to experience social mobility while Trump was in office and now many may be taking a huge step backwards — how can you work hard and advancing your life on an empty stomach, and who knew white men relied on food stamps more than any other group?

I grew up in a low-income neighborhood in Baltimore, where the population is mostly black and lived both in and around public housing most of my life so I’m very familiar with food stamps. I even remember when they switched from the bulky white bills to the sleek-modern Independence Card. I didn’t see a lot of people swiping Visa’s; however, the markets stayed crowded on the first of every month and fridges were full. People weren’t making fortunes off the government or eating like kings and queens — they definitely had to make sure that money lasted for 30 days, I mean transforming the same batch of spaghetti into three different dishes just to make it through the last week of the month. That reality left me thinking that welfare, food stamps, or any type of government assistance was a black thing. I didn’t know how white families lived, other than Mama’s Family where I don’t remember anyone working accept Naomi at the market and The Bundy’s where Al lived in a single-family house, owned a car, had a stay at home wife and two kids as an uneducated commissioned shoe salesman who rarely sold shoes.

I never even questioned the idea of who was the biggest welfare recipients until I reached my first political science class as an undergrad — and heard a frustrated white (racist) student complain about the welfare problem in, "his" country.

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The dirty secret that never makes it into Trump's tremendous campaign speeches is that 55 percent of low-income ABAWDs are male, and 48 percent are white — so he is defeating his own people. Don’t be surprised if you see some of those husky guys at the MAGA hat rallies start to thin out.