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.
His remarks, one of many tense exchanges in a Q&A session at the National Association of Black Journalists, underscored the Trump campaign’s floundering efforts to blunt the momentum of Harris since President Joe Biden agreed to drop his reelection bid.
What a fucking idiot...... Telling a room full of blacks that he doesn't think Harris is black.. He is as stupid as Biden is a retarded geriatric ...
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