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.”
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.”
Oh, so Trump is accusing her of what he is guilty of. He would change his ethnicity from Swedish to Irish to German depending on who was around.
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.Trump is fucking weird. Dude doesn’t even understand what it’s like to have different traditions on your father and mother’s side of the fence.
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Recently, a major topic of discussion has been how fast the Democratic campaign went from weak to enthusiastic.
Stories like this one remind me how fast the Trump campaign went from scary to amusingly pathetic.
Fascism exemplifies being both scary and pathetic.
Raccoons are much smaller than me. But I would be hesitant to corner one. Never underestimate the destructive capabilities of someone with poor priorities.
Good point. I know better than to let my guard down completely, but I’m less concerned about him than I used to be. It feels good.
Okay I’m starting to really believe that trump was a puppet carefully managed since the 2016 election that slowly fell apart as he actually got power and became president and fired literally everyone who didn’t lick his boots. Seriously almost forgot how almost all of the news for like a year was like, some tweets and trump fires someone or attacks them (the latter never stops) I digress
He is so clearly floundering for the first time. This fucker has never had bad press until now. He isn’t different or anything, just suddenly some people are realizing and agree the emperor isn’t wearing clothes. That cost him so much powerful support. I speculate the evangical Republicans, who are still a major contribution to conservative politics today, are withdrawing their resources and efforts this election cycle to regroup and plan how to handle the next 2 years to the best of their advantage.
More “Haphazardly guided by fox news” but yeah.
The Sarah Palin gambit blew up in their face again.
Well, no. He’s been floundering since he fucked up COVID. That was something he could bluster his way through. Republicans could see their friends and family dying.
That’s why he lost. He’s bad at being president. Plus old and weird.
How many conservatives do you know that admit the severity of covid after the fact, even after losing loved ones?
Their heads are firmly buried in the sand. It’s a non-factor of that voting demographic.
My sister is adamant my dad didn’t die of covid despite you know, getting covid and dying in the hospital a few days later. And the death certificate states the cause of death as Covid. Oh, he most likely caught it in her bar which she reopened as soon as the WI supreme court ruled that lock down doesn’t apply to bars.
I know several people that sort of leaned moderate republican that are now just democrats. It really depends on their news
Personally, all the moderate conservatives I knew abandoned the republican party long before covid hit, but I can see that being the last straw for a few. By the time covid came along, the only conservatives I know that were still Red voters stayed red after covid
I have a conservative friend whose father died from covid which absolutely devistated her. She’s from a small rural town she used to love but cannot stand it anymore because everyone she knew there was like “god’s plan” blablabla without offering any real sympathy. So there are a few running around out there, but by far the minority.
I disagree strongly. He lost a lot of support but he did not lose support on this level, with this tone. It’s like the ones who were scared to say a single critical word are now scared to say a single supportive word. He is a political leper
When he lost 2020 and fucked up his image beyond repair. The insurrection and being twice impeached and losing court case after court case both with the election fruad, stormy daniels, and all other smaller charges that I may not know or recall. He is losing face and he was abandoned by the family. I truly believe he lost the support of religious/evangical leaders and that’s the big reason attitudes are changing.
Of course this is all opinion and based on my experiences and how I perceive them. I wonder though if anyone else has had ties to people who consumed like… Christian media and what sort of changes they have seen in attitudes toward trump this year vs last year.
A better way to put it is that he’s stuck on defense for the first time. His usual tactic is to lash out at anyone that attacks him to force them on defense. Swapping candidates put him completely off balance. His attacks aren’t landing and only make his position worse.
Could someone please return Trump’s big balloon? It’s about that big. Refer to the picture, about that size. Maybe a little smaller, maybe a little bigger. It could have been a beach balloon or ball.
omfg, that is gold.
Someone needs to 'shop a concertina into his hands when he’s spewing his typical oral diarrhea.
that one’s a classic.
I’ll never unsee this now lmao; thanks for the laugh (and future laughs, for every time he uses that same mannerism)
Just how dumb is this guy?
How dumb is there?
All of it…just all the dumb
He’s starting a rhetoric. He gaslights and soon there’ll be a bunch of Americans caught up in her origins and misleading representation of race. And you’ll wonder, “How the fuck did that actually stick?”
Will there? Maybe the racist ones who would never be voting for her anyway. Good, let them waste their time with it.
Yep, it’s just the new talking point from their supreme leader. It was “Sleepy Biden” before, now it’s “opportunistic race swapping Harris” (he is better with stupid names so he might come up with something more catchy, but that is the general direction).
They will gobble it up like all the shit they parrot all the time.
I had a realisation. Might be true; probably isn’t. But I have the feeling Trump read The Art of War.
Many of his actions seem to come straight from that book, but from a person that didn’t comprehend it appropriately.
Profoundly dumb. But also super weird. And he hates being called weird.
Weird, Old, Loser, Fat…the alpha W.O.L.F.
Wildly overweight limp fuck?
More predictable than dumb, in that in any given situation the man will pick the absolutely worst choice available. Every single time. Even when that choice hurts him.
When his options are (a) pick the right choice, (b) pick a bad choice, ( c) do nothing, or (d) pick something you didn’t even fathom because the idea was just so bad that even the biggest moron would dismiss it out of hand, he will go with D. Every single time. Even if it hurts himself. Thankfully, the man can’t get out of his own way 95% of the time, and I firmly believe that making even something resembling a rational choice even on the most basic of options would cause him physical pain.
It’s just a weird thing to say and a weird stance to double-down on.
His VP pick has children who are both white and Indian, but he still can’t comprehend Harris can be black and Indian.
To be fair, Trump and most of the MAGA base probably don’t view the Vance kids as white at all.
The half-assed way Vance “defended” his wife to his party was sickening.
I missed this, was it from the convention? Is there a particular quote?
“Obviously, she’s not a white person, and we’ve been accused, attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha.”
– JD Vance
“I know she’s not white, but I love her anyway. And I know that’s a personal failing of mine, and I apologize for it”
- what he implied
Don’t want to offend the white supremacists… they need those votes!
Conservatives are all about tradition…
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No, he’s legitimately dumb. He knows how to play a crowd, and covers it up a bit by rambling unlike Biden, but he’s been observably senile since like 2018, look at how disconnected his speech gets when he goes off script and starts a thought off with something he half-remembered from the news, something grandma would send you on FB, and ends it with something that hasn’t been accurate since the 80s.
If you watch his CPAC speeches and stuff, it’s almost like there’s a conspiracy of silence around showing how bad it is. You just get wacky stories that aren’t too believable from dem-alligned media, and “everything’s fine, the 79 year old is the most stable genius ever” from conservative media.
The recent interview with the black journalists association missed the perfect opportunity to ask him to draw a clock.
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He knows how to play a crowd
If they already like him, sure. He lost the ability to be entertaining to anyone else a long time ago.
Dude literally doesn’t understand that people come from two parents
Whatever the answer to that question is, the real answer is “dumber than that.”
Also acceptable: not as dumb as the people who vote for him.
Dumber than that.
If you know you might lose a fair fight, but you also know it doesn’t matter if you can leverage mob violence, you stoke the flames.
He has to be careful with that or his supporters might not be energized to vote.
Oh how the turntables
This is what we call an “n+1” problem, as far as I can tell
He’s a not really that dumb, he’s a narcissist. Like, as a legitimate, detrimental mental condition.
Trump cannot backtrack and admit he is wrong, even if it’s a small goof. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian–Alabama_controversy
I know people like this in real life, and it’s really sad, but also really annoying/grating.
But also dumb
To be fair, he’s ALSO very dumb: https://www.truthorfiction.com/trump-was-the-dumbest-gddamn-student/
This is really reductive.
I think coverage of him before 2015 is much more enlightening. One I always point to is the Market Foolery podcasts on Trump, where (TL;DR) he tries to sell private real estate to his public company at highly inflated prices, and hyping the market to buy into this technically-not-illegal scheme.
Thing is, he’s good at that kind of scheme. It worked! It wasn’t illegal, just basically selling a turd. The Motley Fool saw through it (and met him in person to discuss it, which is what the podcast is about) and made the only short of their career, but still, people drastically underestimate Trump’s ability to “sell” ideas that benefit him, to their detrement.
Another commenter pointed out that he’s so fucking stupid he stared directly at the sun when an eclipse happened. Yeah he’s not very smart.
And most likely someone else came up with that scheme.
I don’t think so. It’s classic Trump and fits his long pattern of behavior, of not quite lying in the technical sense while selling some kind of snake oil.
Couldn’t be a pattern of the people he hires and ethics he’s happy to not have? This isn’t evidence that he’s smart
The guy is one of the dumbest people alive. He isn’t good at anything but fooling dumb people. He is the king of the dumb people and there are more than we thought.
It’s not reductive. It’s factual. Quit polishing a turd. He’s a moron. He can’t even fuck a porn star and pay her without being caught. He’s so dumb he can’t hide investment lies without being caught. He can’t plan to overthrow the government without documentation.
I know 5 year olds with more wit and social navigation.
“There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.” ― Lao Tzu
Your not acknowledging his strengths, which have absolutely gotten him this far. That’s a deadly mistake, one the Democrat part has already made far too much.
He’s not my adversary. He’s an asshole I would rather not exist and is the epitome of stupidity. He doesn’t have strengths. He bought fame and sucks at life. I don’t need to acknowledge him as anything other than the scum that represents more scum. And you sound like you support him more than you dislike him.
I don’t support Trump. I don’t think there’s anything that could happen that would make me vote Trump instead of literally any Democratic candidate. Even that aside, I really hate narcissists.
But you’re living in a bubble if you don’t want to acknowledge how he got this far, and you lash out any one that tries to break it. Way too much of the Democrat party does. It’s how they lost, and could lose again.
His strengths didn’t get him this far. His daddy’s money did.
I’d be interested to see your take on his prowess as a trickster as mentioned in the parent comment.
We’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. They’d definitely be very evil. But when it came to nuke engineering, they’re evil & not dumb.
I don’t worry I’m glorifying the impeached ex-president when I say “he’s good at fraud.” He has said and done many evil things, including some cunning ones. He’s dumb in some areas. Am I really polishing a turd right now by acknowledging a horrible horrible person isn’t entirely an idiot in every facet of his life, rather only most of them?
Maybe 45’s narcissism is indeed the bigger headline. Narcissistic, evil, morally an idiot, cunning at (smart at executing) certain scams… if we just say “nope bad at everything, 100% dumb” we’re underplaying how dangerous he can be, no?
I’d be interested to see your take on his prowess as a trickster as mentioned in the parent comment.
In my opinion, it’s because our systems are woefully inadequate to address even the dumbest of huckster schemes. He’s not some brilliant dude for pulling it off. He just has no morals, no ethics, and no shame. And he’s spent a lifetime instinctively removing anyone who does from his presence.
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He’s “look directly at the sun during an eclipse without eye protection” dumb. Plus he’s old, sleepy, and a felon.
Let me guess, the black genes are only 3/5 as powerful as her Indian genes?
Combined together they form - The Kamalatron!
many GOP strategists, including in the Trump camp, worried that attacks on Harris’s race and gender […] would pose a serious liability for the campaign
Do they seriously understand their base that badly, or is this just optics? “I hope his completely unexpected racism doesn’t alienate our voters who are totally not racist we swear this is so bad we’re so worried oh no”
The base isn’t going to be put off by it, but that’s not who they’re worried about. Every election is divided by independent swing voters and yes, some of them do care.
The 33% that constitutes Trump’s base probably likes him more after every racist outburst, but they alone don’t win national elections.
I’ve seen a lot of people raise doubts about whether there really are significant amounts of swing voters this time 'round, and I’d sort of tend to agree – if not for any other reason than it seems bizarre that somebody could be vacillating between Trump and Harris
There are enough swing voters to deliver a Democratic victory in 2012, Republican in 2016, Democratic in 2020, and either way in 2024.
I agree with you that it seems ridiculous. The policies and personalities are completely different so it’s difficult to imagine people who can’t decide between the two.
But I think you have a lot of people who are disaffected with politics in general, who think all politicians are the same, who probably don’t pay too much attention to the news, who make up this bloc. And they probably vote in a reactive way, if at all - a referendum on a bad economy or whatever news breaks through to them. Maybe it’s only 10% of voters, but that’s the margin that decides all these elections. And they are potentially swayed by a constant drumbeat of negative Trump news, especially that he now no longer faces an opponent with their own significant visible flaws.
There are far more ignorant people than you could ever imagine.
Totally, Trump’s not really trying to win any more voters, everyone has already made their decision. He’s mudding the waters and hoping he can discourage people from voting in general to hurt Harris.
The only way he can win is if a majority of people don’t vote. If you don’t vote, it’s accepting a second Trump presidency.
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The only way he can win is if a majority of people don’t vote. If you don’t vote, it’s accepting a second Trump presidency.
If everyone voted, and especially if everyone under 40 voted, the Republican party would lose in a landslide. There’s a reason that the Republicans are so big on voter suppression.
I didn’t think there are undecideds, but there are fringe people on one side that he can lose and some on the other side who will secretly vote for him.
Campaigning these days is not about convincing anyone to vote for one candidate or the other. Everyone who might conceivably vote will have known who they’d vote for before the campaign season even began.
The campaign is about convincing the people who would vote for you that they actually should show up to vote instead of staying home or just going about their day. As a bonus if you make your opponent look like a big enough clown, maybe you can demoralize the opposition’s voting base so they don’t bother showing up to vote.
This is a big part of why Republicans always want to make it as hard as possible to vote: The people who tend to vote Republican have perverse incentives (lower taxes, ban abortion, etc) so they’re generally much more motivated to get out and vote despite barriers than the typical Democratic voter who just wants a sane government but probably feels like sanity is never delivered on no matter who wins.
That might be true but democrats do have perverse incentives to vote this time. Women weren’t an out group last election.
The more of a pig he is, the closer to the election, the more likely it is to turn out the vote against him. Conservatives vote no matter what typically. Enthusiasm on the left decides the election
It doesnt matter. Every Trumpet in my office is eating this up. I pulled up a picture of her Jamaican dad. Their answer was “Jamaicans aren’t black.” I really dont know how to respond to that.
The die-hard Trumpets are a lost cause. But stuff like this should hopefully start to peel away the other people that he actually needs in order to win.
Yeah, I don’t really see it helping, the people who belive him aren’t less likely to vote for someone that isn’t black. There’s no trumpers saying ‘oh I really.wanted a black woman as president, guess I’ll have to vote the racist guy instead’
Go to google maps, get them to select a random street view in Jamaica. Ask them to describe the people they’re seeing.
…dafuq??
There are cultural differences between Afro-Caribbean people and “black” (ADOS) Americans. The trump fans might be trying to use that to drive a wedge in the Democratic Party.
But that’s like the difference between Scottish and Irish people. They are basically the same in English history, lesser people to be conquered. Meaningless when it comes to racism.
Yeah I was worried I’d sound insensitive by posting that. But honestly, to this specific group, I want to just say O now skin color doesn’t matter.
I don’t know that many MAGA folks with that nuanced a view of race.
Which is a complete waste of time on Trump’s part. She’s visibly not white AND a woman, so them not voting for her is built-in. It only has the potential to lose him some edge case voters, not gain any.
Some other notable Jamaicans: Bob Marley, Usain Bolt, Grace Jones. I suppose your coworkers would say they’re not black either?
Bob Marley is a bad example because his dad was white, so he must white as well /s
The sky is yellow if it upsets a lib
And they’d piss straight up just to turn that sky yellow
Doubt they drink enough water, so it’s probably orange, appropriately enough.
They won’t be black until they try to enter the US. At which point they’ll be angry violent blacks coming for American jobs, even if they’re only on vacation.
Well in the same breath, Trump is trying really hard not to be white, soooo…
I guess he’s free to say whatever the fuck he wants if his party think they’ve got the electoral votes rigged in their favor? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/
This is why he keeps saying “we don’t need the votes” at almost every rally
Well if it’s rigged in his favor, well then gee golly, I don’t have to go into town on election day and vote for him!
I was going to vote for Trump, but now that I know he’s going to win no matter what I’ll just stay home!
He was begging Christians for votes recently.
