Vice-president brushes off remarks by Donald Trump in which he said Harris ‘happened to turn Black’ a number of years ago
Kamala Harris has shrugged off Donald Trump’s questioning of her racial identity, saying that it was “the same old show” and that “America deserves better”, at a rally in Texas.
On Wednesday, in an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Trump antagonised senior Black journalists and questioned Harris’s race, saying, “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black.”
His interview, which was meant to last an hour, according to Axios, was cut short after 34 minutes.
“He did crap the bed today. The only question is if he’s going to roll around in it or change the sheets.”
— GOP operative Scott Jennings, on CNN about Donald Trump’s questioning of whether Kamala Harris is Black
He’s absolutely rolling around in the shit, and his campaign’s yes men and his cultish supporters will tell him he smells like roses
He NEVER changes the sheets, just declares that they’re the greatest sheets ever, everyone is saying it, and continues to be cheered by his cult as he keeps shitting and rolling around in it.
GOP operative Scott Jennings has apparently never heard of Donald Trump.
i don’t understand. what does he think he gains if he were to actually convince people that she’s only “pretending to be black”? it sounds like the only reason he even went to that event was to get more votes from racists who were already going to vote for him…whatever. fucking moron
… what does he think…
That’s the secret: he doesn’t.
He doesn’t have that thing in his head we all have to tell him what he is about to say is fucking stupid. It’s a direct path from brain to mouth.
Ironically, that is also the secret to his success because his moronic cultists perceive it as “authentic”.
His people arranged it and told him to go, otherwise he would have never been there. Someone in his camp decided it was a good idea.
“mr dear leader majesty sir, we really need to bring up the black vote numbers”
“easy, i’ll just tell them harris won’t do anything for them because she’s not actually black!”
“um…there are multiple problems with that argument sir…”
“shut up and get me a happy meal”
“shut up and get me a happy meal”
This is just unrealistic, Big Macs don’t come as a happy meal lol
Close, but he doesn’t need them to vote for him. He just needs them NOT to vote for Harris.
The best people, to be sure
I think this is just his narcissism, racism, and sexism all fighting it out for top billing.
what does he think he gains if he were to actually convince people that she’s only “pretending to be black”?
It means horrible attacks against her aren’t racism. It’s a permission slip to his followers to be racist to her.
He’s not going to win on ideas, policy or record against her but if the narrative becomes “she lied about her race” those issues aren’t in the narrative.
He’s an awful human being but he’s media savvy.
if the narrative becomes “she lied about her race”
true. keep everyone on the defensive and make them waste time debunking bullshit
but he’s media savvy.
gotta disagree. he’s an awful human being and his cult followers are just dumb enough to lap up all his bullshit like hogs at the trough
Thats the thing - he knows how to shovel the BS.
He has the rubes thinking that a guy who literally shits on a gold toilet understands and gives a shit about them. They think he’s tough when he’s an epic whiner…he knows how to con people and the media just parrots his shit because ratings matter more than truth and he knows it.
I think it might matter to black voters? I’m only trying to seriously answer your question.
i’m sure. but here’s an old white racist with a large black audience (many of whom, i’m sure, are probably also biracial) making the implication that they need him to tell them who’s black and who isn’t.
it’s pants-on-head stupid, no matter how they try to spin it
Bingo, he’s trying to discourage them from voting. He’s using one of his common strategies of looking for a reason an opponent is popular and saying whatever that reason is is untrue. Apparently it being something immutable like ethnicity is no object to a dumbass like him.
Because large swaths of his voter base (and party in general) are inherently racist so attacking from this angle resonates best with them.
Also, when this is his biggest vector of attack against someone that should let you know exactly how much they have on the table
I think he just wants to talk about her race, and this way of talking about it (in his little worm filled brain) makes black people not like her.
He’s so racist he doesn’t realize most other people aren’t
Trump said of Harris, “Don’t forget. Four weeks ago she was considered, like, the worst,” and that she had had a “personality makeover … All of a sudden she’s considered the new Margaret Thatcher”.
Literally no one is comparing Kamala Harris to Margaret Thatcher… except Trump I guess. 🤣 I bet there are a significant number of voting Millenials who don’t even know who Margaret Thatcher is. The ol’ weirdo’s references are weak and long past their best-before date, just like him.
All Millennials need to know is that Margaret Thatcher is the Reagan of the UK to know what they think of her.
Or that Ding Dong the Witch is Dead reached Number 2 in the charts just after she died.
Didn’t know that, nice!
Why wouldn’t millennials know that?
Ask the person I responded to.
Ah meant to, my bad, misclick
Comparing Thatcher to a woman of color lol
Anyway, they should know who she was, and how much damage her fucked up economics did.
Fuck old Maggie. Veep Harris is far better than that conservative nitwit. See we want Harris to nationalize more not privatize the air we breathe and the sense of community we feel
His interview, which was meant to last an hour, according to Axios, was cut short after 34 minutes.
“So, Project 2025…”
“This interview is over!”
Do you remember when Biden received a lot of flack for saying “you ain’t black” if you vote for Trump. It was just another symptom of the problem of having leaders so ancient that they often come off as tone deaf.
In Biden’s defense, though, he seemed to recognize he misstepped and proceeded with more sensitivity.
He didn’t just seem to recognize it, he said so explicitly.
Definitely won’t see that from Trump.
Good point. At the time, I didn’t give him the benefit of the doubt and kinda forgot over time.
Kamala is right. It is.
“The same old show” - if that’s deliberate, and not just a convenient idiom, I’m impressed.
Either way her messaging thus far has been at least a breath of fresh air, at most it’s kicking trump’s old weird ass all over the map.
trump is a weird, old convicted felon. And his followers are weird.
As I understand it, it was Trump’s own goons that insisted the interview end early. They were trying to save him from his continuous faceplanting. Well facehopping by the end.
I think a big part of this is a lot of people still go by the “one drop” rule.
Which leads to people saying Kamala is the first Indian and Black VP for example.
Like, we call Obama the first Black president, but it’s more accurate to say the first mixed race president. And even then, we’re all “mixed race” to some degree.
But someone with parents of different races/cultures often deal with a lot of baggage because they can feel they’re not accepted by either side. Which is why I don’t see why we make a big deal about it on the left.
Just leave race out of it and when Republicans get racist (or any kind of bigotry) dismiss it just like Kamala did here.
Obama is black, and Harris is black (in addition to their other racial identities). They have non-black parents or ancestors but so do basically all black Americans. You don’t have to be purebred to count. Black Americans with some white ancestors certainly don’t get exempted from racism and hatred.
But people mix up genetics and culture.
Drake might have one Black parent, but he didn’t grow up in that culture.
Obama had one Black parent, but growing up in Hawaii back then isn’t anything like being Black anywhere else in America. That’s not my opinion, Obama spoke about how shocked he was coming to the mainland for college.
It makes no sense to talk about it genetically, because there are shockingly few differences between what we consider races in a genetic level.
The difference is the culture, not skin color, eye shape, or hair texture.
It’s just for the vast amount of human existence, the two went hand in hand. That’s not always true these days.
Congrats, you’ve discovered race is a social construct and doesn’t matter. If only the racists would come to the same conclusion we could stop talking about it.
You didn’t pick that up from the first comment?
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now I’m just “white” and racists wouldn’t have a problem with me.
It won’t stay that way tho.
Pretty much the only time “slippery slope” is valid is when talking about fascists. They always lie about what they want and nothing will ever appease them.
You’re still “other” to them, just not the most vulnerable “other” which is who their target always is.
I accidentally deleted my response so I’m posting it under yours.
That’s why “race” is a bullshit unscientific term, it changes all the time, at one time both my Irish and Slavic background would have been rejected in American society, now I’m just “white” and racists wouldn’t have a problem with me.
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