Former president Donald Trump is still pretending that he doesn’t know that Vice President Kamala Harris is biracial. And he’s taking other stupid people with him. Of course, this stems from his appearance in front of the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday, where he bizarrely claimed, “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black.”
Um, exactly how does one “turn” Black, or white, or English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, and Portuguese, like me? We all come in the same wrapper. Sometimes the color is a bit different but we’re still the same inside. We don’t suddenly change from Taco Bell to Burger King. I’m sure Trump already knows this. He can’t be that dumb.
Can he?
Well, I don’t know. After some of the things he’s done, I have to wonder. He later asked, “So, I don’t know. Is she Indian or is she Black?” according to Mediaite. [1]
Harris’s father is Jamaican and her mother is Indian. She was born in Oakland, California.
Trump tells Black journalists that Kamala Harris "is of Indian heritage … is she Indian or is she Black? … she became a Black person." Note the audience laughing at him. pic.twitter.com/PAhmgr1yBS [2]
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 31, 2024 [3]
But now we have Trump talking absolute nonsense and sharing a Truth Social post from conspiracy nutter Laura Loomer, where she too, falsely claims Harris “is NOT black and never has been.” She accompanied this with a copy of Harris’s alleged birth certificate, which lists her dad’s “color or race” as Jamaican. Her mother is listed as Caucasian.
“Donald Trump is correct,” Loomer claimed. “Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been.”
Laura Loomer is the putrid waste that gathers at the bottom of a truck stop trash dumpster, and the felonious Republican nominee is retruthing her Birtherism 2.0 garbage.
This is America now. pic.twitter.com/2LIWneW73d [4]
— 𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 (@NashIsHere4It) August 1, 2024 [5]
Does Loomer need a history lesson? Apparently she doesn’t know that the majority of people living in Jamaica are the descendants of Black people stolen [6] from Africa to work as slaves in the sugar industry. She really is this ignorant and it’s truly sad that someone who runs a podcast and has more than one million followers on X is that ignorant.
Trump being who he is, he shared the post and another one from Loomer that contains a CNN segment that focuses on Harris’s Indian heritage. Loomer is nuttier than a Payday bar and she interpreted this as meaning Harris cannot be Black. The fact that Trump would even elevate Loomer is dangerous. She calls herself a “proud Islamaphobe”. This is the type of stuff she tweets, many times, daily:
Ghetto black twerking bitches for Kamala isn’t hitting as hard in Atlanta as Donald Trump getting arrested in Atlanta.
This is just a fact.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 31, 2024 [7]
“Not only does Kamala Harris’s own birth certificate prove that she is LYING about being black, but CNN even once did a whole video interview about how Kamala is INDIAN,” she snarked. “Not black!”
WATCH:
Not only does @KamalaHarris [8]’s own birth certificate prove that she is LYING about being black, but @CNN [9] even once did a whole video interview about how Kamala is INDIAN. Not black. https://t.co/iW4GqTgRVB [10] pic.twitter.com/0tKMicrVm4 [11]
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 1, 2024 [12]
Up until President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid in July, Trump had been focusing on Biden’s advanced age and his cognitive state. But now that Harris is the likely Democratic presidential nominee he’s had to scramble for some new ground to explore. His falsehoods surrounding Harris’s racial identity are completely weird. Especially since he appears to think this could be a winning strategy.
You know that cliche about truth being stranger than fiction? I think that’s especially true here. Trump and Loomer are trying to claim their “truths,” which are ahem, mostly fiction.
Silly me. I thought Idiocracy [13] was only a movie.