Detroit pastor says people laughed in his face when he invited them to Trump church event

The Detroit pastor who hosted Donald Trump's much ridiculed church roundtable — which was promoted as a reach-out to Black voters but later shown to have a large white turnout — said people laughed in his face when he suggested they attend.

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell appeared on MSNBC Sunday night to discuss the "surprising" turnout at the evangelical 180 Church and faced a direct question about the people in the audience.

"Was the audience mostly white?" asked anchor Charles Coleman Jr.