2024-07-31 22:05:06
A new verbal slip from Donald Trump. Addressing the African-American press in Chicago, the Republican candidate spoke about Kamala Harris. “He became black” for electoral purposes, the former president said of the vice-president. “He was Indian all along and suddenly he changed and became a black man. »
Kamala Harris was born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother. She is the first Black and South Asian woman to seek the presidency. The fifty-year-old describes herself as a “black woman”.
Trump compared himself to Lincoln
Less than 100 days before the United States presidential election, Donald Trump was forced to review his entire campaign strategy, including the surprise withdrawal of his former rival, Democrat Joe Biden. The Republican has placed the health of the 81-year-old president at the heart of his political message by portraying him as an elderly man.
But ten days ago he inherited a new candidate, a black woman, 18 years his junior, to whom he must process new arguments.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre immediately denied the comments about Kamala Harris’ skin color, calling them “insulting.” “No one has the right to tell someone how they identify,” he said.
During the same exchange with three journalists in Chicago, Donald Trump also said that he is “the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln”, the architect of the abolition of slavery.
Already slip-ups
The stormy septuagenarian already had particularly harsh words for the vice president during an event in North Carolina last week, falsely accusing him of being in favor of “killing babies” because of his abortion positions.
Likewise, he suggested that the candidate could not stand up to other world leaders, in an interview given to Fox News and broadcast earlier this week.
Always looking for ridiculous nicknames for his opponents, Donald Trump has not yet decided in favor of a nickname for his Democratic rival, choosing between “Kamala the liar”, “funny” and “the idiot”.
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