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Trump Doubles Down on “Kamala Isn’t Black” Argument With New Photo (newrepublic.com)

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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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[-] Substance_P@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

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

~ Public Enemy ~

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[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 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 8 months ago

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?

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

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[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 8 points 8 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

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

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

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