Donald Trump is proving heā€™s racist and stupid with his latest post.

In a Truth Social post Thursday morning, Donald Trump appeared to suggest, again, thatĀ presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris isnā€™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,Ā worriedĀ that attacks on Harrisā€™s race and genderā€”which seemed all but inevitable considering Trumpā€™s history of racism and misogynyā€”would pose a serious liability for the campaign. ā€œWe hope he doesnā€™t act like a crazy racist and sexist person, but we canā€™t control him,ā€ a source close to the campaignĀ toldĀ The Washington Post.

These hopes were quickly dashed in the course of Trumpā€™s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday afternoon, in which the candidateĀ claimedĀ that, for years, Vice President Kamala Harris ā€œwas Indian all the way, and then suddenly she made a turn and she became a Black person.ā€

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Iā€™d be interested to see your take on his prowess as a trickster as mentioned in the parent comment.


    Weā€™d be really mad at someone who designed a 3D printed nuclear bomb and used it on our families. They might be socially inept and bad at geography and have no grasp of international affairs, so kinda dumb in some ways. Theyā€™d definitely be very evil. But when it came to nuke engineering, theyā€™re evil & not dumb.

    I donā€™t worry Iā€™m glorifying the impeached ex-president when I say ā€œheā€™s good at fraud.ā€ He has said and done many evil things, including some cunning ones. Heā€™s dumb in some areas. Am I really polishing a turd right now by acknowledging a horrible horrible person isnā€™t entirely an idiot in every facet of his life, rather only most of them?


    Maybe 45ā€™s narcissism is indeed the bigger headline. Narcissistic, evil, morally an idiot, cunning at (smart at executing) certain scamsā€¦ if we just say ā€œnope bad at everything, 100% dumbā€ weā€™re underplaying how dangerous he can be, no?

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      4 months ago

      Iā€™d be interested to see your take on his prowess as a trickster as mentioned in the parent comment.

      In my opinion, itā€™s because our systems are woefully inadequate to address even the dumbest of huckster schemes. Heā€™s not some brilliant dude for pulling it off. He just has no morals, no ethics, and no shame. And heā€™s spent a lifetime instinctively removing anyone who does from his presence.