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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.”

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

creepy weirdos

[–] PM_ME_WRISTS_GIRL@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I suspect Trump is not really orange. I think he is white and he paints himself orange. I don't know why he'd do that, but it is very, very weird.

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[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

~ Public Enemy ~

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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention alot of Indians in Africa, at least in Kenya. There's plenty of Indian-Africans and probably plenty of African-Indians.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shockingly, the world is a diverse place and people intermingle. Hmm.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s because everyone’s so damn sexy

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[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

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?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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?

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