A sensitive place for DonaldTrump to go to…
(He KNOWS what he’s doing)
He kinda went here with Barack Obama saying he wasn’t REALLY born in America and making sure to REMIND EVERYONE that a BLACK person was running for President….
Harris has a Jamaican father and East Indian mother….
She IS indeed’ mixed’
But here in America if there is any Black in ys?
Your labeled Black…
Donald Trump doubled-down on Truth Social insisting that Kamala Harris is not Black.
Said Trump: “This is a big deal. Stone cold phony. She uses everybody, including her racial identity!”
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Trump’s first try at pivoting to Harris blows up in his face…(Update)
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday took his first big swing Wednesday at the revamped Democratic ticket — and it did not go well for him.
Trump participated in a controversial live interview at a convention of Black journalists in Chicago and quickly stumbled into racially insensitive remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris as he questioned her identity and qualifications.
When asked about Republicans who say Harris, the first woman of Black and Asian ancestry to serve as vice president, was chosen for the role in a nod to diversity, Trump instead suggested Harris only recently “became” Black.
“She was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said, prompting audible gasps and murmurs, according to reporters in the room. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago until she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black.”
Trump continued to make the same point about Harris’ ancestry even as one of the moderators, ABC News’ Rachel Scott, interjected that Harris attended an historically Black college and has always identified as Black….
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Just hours after the event, Trump appeared to double down on the idea that people of mixed backgrounds can’t identify as more than one ethnicity, posting a video on his Truth Social account showing Harris, in his words, “saying she’s Indian, not Black” and calling her a “stone cold phony.”…
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Trump’s entire 34-minute exchange with Scott and two other journalists on stage was contentious, as the GOP nominee groused about not being able to hear the questions, a delayed start that he blamed on the conference’s own technical problems and Harris’ decision not to appear before the National Association of Black Journalists.
In his most watched public appearance since Harris took over for Biden atop the Democratic ticket, Trump’s coarse, cutting and at times snappish responses, including calling one of Scott’s questions “nasty,” showed him to be very much the same person he has always been despite the assassination attempt earlier this month that he initially claimed had changed his outlook and approach….
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Trump took issue with the first question he was asked, as Scott ticked off a number of past comments that many have seen as racist: questioning former President Barack Obama’s American citizenship, telling four congresswomen of color to go back to where they came from, describing Black district attorneys as animals and attacking Black journalists for questions he deemed “stupid.”
“Why should Black voters trust you after you’ve used language like that?” Scott said.
Trump responded defensively: “I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner.” He called ABC a “fake news network” and dismissed Scott’s question as “disgraceful….
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Trump is NOT gaining Black voters talking like this ….it’s for the MAGA types
image…The interview marked Trump’s first major attempt to pivot a campaign designed to defeat Biden toward a younger and more challenging opponent, and laid bare the difficulties the Republican nominee and his movement more broadly may have in taking on a woman of color without veering into misogynistic, racist invective. | Jamie Kelter Davis for POLITICO
It is clear and amazing that MAGA world online and the Trump campaign itself are going to double down on what happened today.
They are obsessed with the fact that the AP wrote that she was the first ever Indian-American Senator and that she has referred to herself as Indian. Those things are true.
It is also true that she is black and is the first black Vice President. Either they do not understand the complexity of how such a thing is possible, even though most six year olds could, or they are just flailing around like mad.
Democrats were smart when they realized they had to get rid of Biden politically and Republicans continue to be dumb by sticking with Trump.
Told ya…….
It’s weird that Trump never questioned that Obama was black even though one of his parents was white.
No……
He just questioned if Barack was born here…..
Same shit…..
Emphasis on Africa and Obama’s father….
Playing the ‘Race Card’ AGAIN
Trump and his allies have also questioned the eligibility of others who have run against him including
Cruz
Rubio
Jindal
Haley
That was before Trump decided he was beloved by black people and now, in his view, since he has a mug shot and has been shot, he can claim to be blacker than his opponent.
It is a matter of time before Trump starts saying things like, “I’m more of a real black than Kamala and I’m more of a real Jew than Shapiro.”
This post has been updated with more details from the Trump Q & A which WAS a disaster….
He think’s he’s ok because he pardoned some Black guys …
It’s so fascinating from the standpoint of his sociopathic mind. He wants it to be both that it is bad that she is black and that it is bad that she is not black enough.
In both 2016 and 2020, he said that both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden were weak on crime and that they had both been too tough on crime. He just says anything and seemingly, people in his cult, pay no attention to the contradictions.
‘Weird?’