Trump Doubles Down on “Kamala Isn’t Black” Argument With New Photo

Just how dumb is this guy?

I honestly think the more likely explanation is that he doesn't realize Kamala Harris and Nikki Hayley are different people. They're both just "that woman I'm running against" to him.

It doesnt matter. Every Trumpet in my office is eating this up. I pulled up a picture of her Jamaican dad. Their answer was "Jamaicans aren't black." I really dont know how to respond to that.

If being half Black means you cannot be Black, then Obama was a White man.

These hopes were quickly dashed in the course of Trump’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday afternoon, in which the candidate claimed that, for years, Vice President Kamala Harris “was Indian all the way, and then suddenly she made a turn and she became a Black person.”

Oh, so Trump is accusing her of what he is guilty of. He would change his ethnicity from Swedish to Irish to German depending on who was around.

Okay I'm starting to really believe that trump was a puppet carefully managed since the 2016 election that slowly fell apart as he actually got power and became president and fired literally everyone who didn't lick his boots. Seriously almost forgot how almost all of the news for like a year was like, some tweets and trump fires someone or attacks them (the latter never stops) I digress

He is so clearly floundering for the first time. This fucker has never had bad press until now. He isn't different or anything, just suddenly some people are realizing and agree the emperor isn't wearing clothes. That cost him so much powerful support. I speculate the evangical Republicans, who are still a major contribution to conservative politics today, are withdrawing their resources and efforts this election cycle to regroup and plan how to handle the next 2 years to the best of their advantage.

I guess he’s free to say whatever the fuck he wants if his party think they’ve got the electoral votes rigged in their favor? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/

This is why he keeps saying “we don’t need the votes” at almost every rally

"we're hoping he doesn't act like a crazy racist and sexist person, we can't control him"

• says person working for uncontrollable crazy racist and sexist person.

“As you can see, my opponent is a total fraud.

She even changed her name from Nikki to Kamala”

My guess is that his evangelical supporters see JD Vance as a betrayal creating a rift in the party between god bros and corporate/tech bros. He was depending on hatred of Biden to keep his groups aligned.

That and the dominion lawsuit tempered fox news so they can't parrot his most sensational claims.

I think he desperately doesn't want her to get the black vote, so he's trying to tell everyone that she's not black. It's not going to work and it just makes him look like an idiot and bigot. And this is his best and most polite, practiced attempt. *Also half black Obama was black enough for him [pops popcorn].

Here's what I don't get, regardless of if your black or indian, if you grew up in america with dark skin you likely have faced all the same struggles that any black voter would care about.

Edit: Assumptions got challenged, read replies.

So even if he was right (he's not, he's what physicists would call "not even wrong"), so what? Are racists any less racist to indians than african americans?

I don't get the playbook here, non-racists would just be confused and racists would still be racists.

He's weird.

many GOP strategists, including in the Trump camp, worried that attacks on Harris’s race and gender […] would pose a serious liability for the campaign

Do they seriously understand their base that badly, or is this just optics? "I hope his completely unexpected racism doesn't alienate our voters who are totally not racist we swear this is so bad we're so worried oh no"

Is Kamala isn't black, why does trump hate her so hard?

Recently, a major topic of discussion has been how fast the Democratic campaign went from weak to enthusiastic.

Stories like this one remind me how fast the Trump campaign went from scary to amusingly pathetic.

Could someone please return Trump's big balloon? It's about that big. Refer to the picture, about that size. Maybe a little smaller, maybe a little bigger. It could have been a beach balloon or ball.

those in his party who consider racism a losing electoral strategy

I thought weaponized racism was literally a requirement for their party

I was hoping for a throwback to “Obama isn’t black” where the image took a colourpicker to say Trump’s darker

What if ... maybe he got Harris mixed up with Nikki Haley? He got Haley and Pelosi mixed up before, and Haley was his most recent opponent, in the primaries. So it wouldn't be surprising he would say, "But she was always Indian before" if he was confused by the interviewers referring to Harris as Black while he was thinking of Haley. But he can't admit that so he has to double down.

That thought just now popped into my mind.

This is not a winning platform. Keep it up, please.

creepy weirdos

Worse? There are actually lots of Africans in India and they've been there for thousands of years. Some big migration once upon a time and you have communities of blacks now.

"Black man, white woman, black baby, white man, black woman, black baby"

~ Public Enemy ~

This is the dumbest shit. Like, I have pictures of me with my Italian family, eating big pasta meals together and I have pictures with my Scottish family in the family tartan. Is this kind of thing so hard to understand?

I don't even begin to understand the angle of attack here, let alone getting into the weeds of how he thinks it will help him. I guess in his mind the birther fiasco with Obama was a huge success that led to a massive downturn in popularity and eventually a lost election? You know, the opposite of actual reality?

The braindead part is that it shows how much something most don't care about... Is so important to trump and the Republicans

can we please stop upvoting these ridiculous trump headlines. ignore the motherfucker.

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So, I think some people make skin color such an issue because it’s important to them. People don’t like Harris just because she’s black. Harris is a competent, smart and reasonable politician, that’s why people like her.

I think subconsciously Trump is just picking up on the fact that if he wasn’t white, he wouldn’t be a leader of the white supremacist type movement. Harris has mass appeal, she’s not just popular with a single type of person, and not just because she’s black or Indian. What a non-issue and a distraction

One of the Trump people I know said Kamala Harris changed ethnicities depending on what audience she is in front of.

Trump is fucking weird. Dude doesn't even understand what it's like to have different traditions on your father and mother's side of the fence.

Well in the same breath, Trump is trying really hard not to be white, soooo...