Donald Trump is proving he’s racist and stupid with his latest post.
In a Truth Social post Thursday morning, Donald Trump appeared to suggest, again, that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris isn’t really Black, ramping up his identity-based attacks to the horror of those in his party who consider racism a losing electoral strategy.
Earlier in the week, many GOP strategists, including in the Trump camp, worried that attacks on Harris’s race and gender—which seemed all but inevitable considering Trump’s history of racism and misogyny—would pose a serious liability for the campaign. “We hope he doesn’t act like a crazy racist and sexist person, but we can’t control him,” a source close to the campaign told The Washington Post.
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.”
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?
He’s like a 100 years old so he probably still has the view that race mixing is an even greater sin than being black.
Oh and also, a common line of attack from conservatives in Australia is to make out that white people are claiming to be black to get benefits (affirmative action, welfare, etc). Maybe Trump is trying (and failing) to create a similar link between that and the whole DEI hire thing.
It worked so well for him against Elizabeth Warren that I think he assumes the same will work here, even though the situations are totally different. Hell, he might think they’re both the same type of “Indian”
Let me guess, the black genes are only 3/5 as powerful as her Indian genes?
Combined together they form - The Kamalatron!
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.
Not to mention alot of Indians in Africa, at least in Kenya. There’s plenty of Indian-Africans and probably plenty of African-Indians.
Shockingly, the world is a diverse place and people intermingle. Hmm.
That’s because everyone’s so damn sexy
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Also the first humans out of Africa settled there. They have groups on the coast which have genetics extremely similar to humans that lived in Africa and that time period.
He’s weird.
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One of the Trump people I know said Kamala Harris changed ethnicities depending on what audience she is in front of.
I would push back on that next time you hear it with… well of course you would. If you have something in common with someone their interested in then why wouldn’t you talk about that aspect about yourself? It’s just sharing a common ground, if an Indian host pointed out her Indian heritage then blurting out I’m half black is just…weird.
A good example for them: if you’re a NASCAR driver and you’re being interviewed on the track, you don’t start talking about your truck.
Yeah I don’t think it’s that big a deal. Especially if people already know she’s half Indian and half black. I wasn’t gonna push my political opinions because I don’t want this person to think of me any different and not a dirty little commie liberal.
Definitely understandable and your choice if you want to put yourself out there like that to be judged. I tend to focus more on political leanings with family since it’s more my area of effectiveness. I will say though, that the more exposure to “dirty little commie liberal” ideals they see, the more it might seem like not such a far-out there idea.
Well in the same breath, Trump is trying really hard not to be white, soooo…
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.
Well, no. He’s been floundering since he fucked up COVID. That was something he could bluster his way through. Republicans could see their friends and family dying.
That’s why he lost. He’s bad at being president. Plus old and weird.
A better way to put it is that he’s stuck on defense for the first time. His usual tactic is to lash out at anyone that attacks him to force them on defense. Swapping candidates put him completely off balance. His attacks aren’t landing and only make his position worse.
How many conservatives do you know that admit the severity of covid after the fact, even after losing loved ones?
Their heads are firmly buried in the sand. It’s a non-factor of that voting demographic.
I have a conservative friend whose father died from covid which absolutely devistated her. She’s from a small rural town she used to love but cannot stand it anymore because everyone she knew there was like “god’s plan” blablabla without offering any real sympathy. So there are a few running around out there, but by far the minority.
My sister is adamant my dad didn’t die of covid despite you know, getting covid and dying in the hospital a few days later. And the death certificate states the cause of death as Covid. Oh, he most likely caught it in her bar which she reopened as soon as the WI supreme court ruled that lock down doesn’t apply to bars.
I know several people that sort of leaned moderate republican that are now just democrats. It really depends on their news
Personally, all the moderate conservatives I knew abandoned the republican party long before covid hit, but I can see that being the last straw for a few. By the time covid came along, the only conservatives I know that were still Red voters stayed red after covid
I disagree strongly. He lost a lot of support but he did not lose support on this level, with this tone. It’s like the ones who were scared to say a single critical word are now scared to say a single supportive word. He is a political leper
When he lost 2020 and fucked up his image beyond repair. The insurrection and being twice impeached and losing court case after court case both with the election fruad, stormy daniels, and all other smaller charges that I may not know or recall. He is losing face and he was abandoned by the family. I truly believe he lost the support of religious/evangical leaders and that’s the big reason attitudes are changing.
Of course this is all opinion and based on my experiences and how I perceive them. I wonder though if anyone else has had ties to people who consumed like… Christian media and what sort of changes they have seen in attitudes toward trump this year vs last year.
The Sarah Palin gambit blew up in their face again.
More “Haphazardly guided by fox news” but yeah.
I honestly think he can’t grasp the idea of a person being biracial and proud of both sides of their heritage.
If being half Black means you cannot be Black, then Obama was a White man.
The racists are trying to appeal to both black and white voters here. They used to say that things like:
“What do you get when you mix clean water with dirty water?”
“Dirty water”
Now they’re saying that people of mixed heritage aren’t anything. That they’re the Other.
Harris grew up in Oakland in a Black neighborhood. As usual the racists are cruel but here they’re spreading an obvious lie designed to erode her standing among black voters
Can’t have mixed people, they might break the whole divide and conquer thing that they’ve perfected in the last little while.
I hope she gets one of those “black jobs”…like President.
Don’t beat them with their own arguments! It just confuses them…
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.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.
Someone needs to 'shop a concertina into his hands when he’s spewing his typical oral diarrhea.
that one’s a classic.
I’ll never unsee this now lmao; thanks for the laugh (and future laughs, for every time he uses that same mannerism)
omfg, that is gold.
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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.
Fascism exemplifies being both scary and pathetic.
Raccoons are much smaller than me. But I would be hesitant to corner one. Never underestimate the destructive capabilities of someone with poor priorities.
Good point. I know better than to let my guard down completely, but I’m less concerned about him than I used to be. It feels good.
those in his party who consider racism a losing electoral strategy
I thought weaponized racism was literally a requirement for their party
Both parties. There’s nothing the dems love more than proxies for racism.
Kamala pledging to pass Biden’s border bill that closes the southern border and increases ICE detention capacity is a slightly more respectable way of expressing what Trump expresses about immigrants, while promoting almost the exact same racist policies.
You can go back through Obama doing the same thing talking about black fatherhood as if it was the result of blackness instead of the economic results of racist policies and both-sidesing police violence, in the 90s, you had “crack babies predisposed to crime”.
Republicans do overt racism, and dems know that overt racism doesn’t play well with their base, so they obfuscate it to chase “moderate republicans”.
Muh both sidez
That is a legitimate thing to say when both sides are promoting a bill to shut down the border, hunt down immigrants in the country more efficiently, and hold more of them in camps.
Did not Biden search for and find hundreds of separated migrant children, separated under the Trump presidency, and reunite them with their families? That would be something of note that is different between the parties.
No way Jose! That goes directly against my point, doesn’t count!
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He also arrested a million more immigrants than Trump so it’s genuinely hard to measure if harm was reduced.
But if it wasn’t, it certainly wasn’t because Trump’s administration was less racist, only less competent at carrying out the same racist policies.
Have you read the footnotes 1 and 2 in your link? Its hard to judge the data when it appears theres also a major change in source data right when the presidency changed.
