“But how are you going to get jobs for them?” Bill O’Reilly asked Donald Trump about African Americans. | Getty O'Reilly: Many African-Americans 'are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads'

Bill O’Reilly interrupted Donald Trump’s claims about how he would create jobs for African-Americans on Monday night to make a louder point: That many of them are “ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads.”

Grilling the Republican front-runner on Fox News’ the O'Reilly Factor, the conservative talk show host asked Trump how he would win over minorities like African Americans.


“I’m telling you, it’s an economic message,” Trump said. “If you look at President Obama, he’s been a president for almost 8 years, it will be 8 years, you have with black youth, with African American youth, you have a 59 percent unemployment."

“But how are you going to get jobs for them?” O’Reilly interjected. “Many of them are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads, and I hate to be generalized about it, but it's true. If you look at all the educational statistics, how are you going to get jobs for people who aren't qualified for jobs?”

“We’re going to bring jobs back,” Trump responded. “We’re going to have Apple computers made in this country, not just…”

O’Reilly pushed back: “But you have to have skills to make Apple computers.”

“It’s more challenging for a poor child in Harlem without parental guidance in a school that’s falling apart than it is for some white kid out in Garden City," he continued. "You say you can bring jobs back, but if the kid isn’t qualified to do the job and can’t do the work – I mean – you’ve got to get into the infrastructure of the African-American community."

“Well it is true. It’s about education, but it’s also about spirit,” Trump said. “A lot of people don’t have spirit. Not only African-Americans, but we don’t have spirit in our country.”