Trump says black Americans 'are going to like me better than they like Obama' – even though the president has 'a slight advantage' 

Donald Trump boldly claimed this morning on Fox News that black Americans are 'going to like me better than they like Obama.' 

Though, Trump noted, 'he does have a slight advantage in all fairness,' the GOP frontrunner said of the country's first African-American commander in chief. 

Trump sat down in Las Vegas this week and talked to Fox News Channel's Howard Kurtz about why minority communities might vote for the Republican businessman.

Trump had a one-word reason: jobs. 

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Donald Trump told Fox News' Howard Kurtz that he thought black voters would like him better than President Obama because he would help them get jobs 

Donald Trump said that minority unemployment would be one problem that he would fix as president, suggesting he'd get jobs back from China, Japan and Mexico - 'all these countries that are ripping us off' 

'Look, the African-Americans love me because they know I'm going to bring back jobs,' Trump said. 

The billionaire pointed out the high unemployment rate for African-American youth as well as black workers in their 30s through 50s.

'Look at African-American people in their prime,' Trump said. 'They want jobs.' 

'They're going to like me better than they like Obama,' he continued. 'Obama has done nothing for them. He's African-American and he's done nothing for them.' 

Kurtz raised his eyebrows at Trump's statement, but the billionaire doubled down. 

'I think that relatively speaking, he does have a slight advantage in all fairness, but I think relatively speaking when I'm finished I think they will absolutely love Donald Trump,' Trump continued. 

'I'm going to bring back jobs, I'm going to create wealth for the country, people are going to partake - we're going to take jobs back from China, from Japan, Mexico, from all these countries that are ripping us off,' the billionaire boasted. 

Trump argued that job creation would help him with black voters and it would help him with Hispanic voters as well, despite the fact that some of his rhetoric on illegal immigration has irritated Latino groups, especially when he classified Mexicans as criminals and rapists. 

'And, by the way, Hispanics are going to benefit,' Trump said. 

'I have now thousands of Hispanics that work for me. I have tens of thousands over my lifetime that have worked for me. These are great people. They want jobs,' he said.

Kurtz was curious about whether Trump planned to change his rhetoric, at all, or reach out to minority communities should he win the Republican primary and need to add to his voter base going into a general election. 

Trump said he would absolutely do outreach in these communities and suggested he was already polling better with black voters than your typical Republican. 

'I'm going to do great with the African-Americans. I think I'm going to do great with the Hispanics. I think I'm going to do great with the Asians,' he said. 

Trump said he didn't plan to massage his message too much. 

'I don't know if I want to change so much,' he told Kurtz.

On a broader scale, Trump talked about his whirlwind week, in which he was endorsed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. 

'She's a good woman, she's a great person, I've known her for a long time,' Trump said. 

Trump also boasted that at one of his recent rallies he had to send 5,000 people away. 

'I've created – this is a movement. It's not about me, it's what we're saying,' Trump said of his growing appeal. 'We are lead by incompetent people and the voters are getting it.'