Thursday, August 1, 2024

We've seen this movie before: Donald Trump invokes the race card on Kamala Harris

 Did the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) think former president Donald Trump would behave himself on Wednesday in Chicago?

In the words of Will "The Fresh Prince" Smith, circa 1987, hmmmmmmm, wellllllll, of course not!

Faced with tough questions that he doesn't have the answers to, Trump went back to an old routine of questioning Vice President Kamala Harris' racial background.


Photo courtesy USA Today.

We all know Harris is multi-racial. Trump seems to think, and, this was clearly a dog whistle to his base of suburban bigots, that the presumptive Democratic nominee "turned black". That is biologically impossible.

Once the questioning got a little too harsh for his liking, Trump bailed out like the coward he's been perceived to be, and the program ended abruptly after just over a half hour, just so Trump could fly to his next rally, in Harrisburg, PA, where he got a reception much more to his liking, and spewed the usual garbage.

As far as his attacks on Harris are concerned, we've seen this movie before, back when Barack Obama was president. The ending's going to be the same, Donald. You lose again. Deal with it.

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