Trump questions whether Harris is 'Black' at conference of Black journalists

Well, that went about as well as one might have imagined.

More "foot in the mouth" from Trump❗

"I'm not gonna be nice!"

That old man is not fit for office.

Harris is Black and Indian. Her father, Donald Harris, is a Black man who was born in Jamaica. Shyamala Gopalan, her mother, was born in southern India.

Birth Certificate

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Kamala_Birth_Certificate.jpg

Trump is immoral.

Another birtherism from Trump.

Is she Indian or is she Black?

Not everything is a binary choice regardless of how that might overwhelm Trump’s reptilian brain.

As I pointed out yesterday with Trump, he’s a convicted felon AND objectively weird.

It’s not an either/or thing.

"Is she Indian or is she Black?" Trump said of his opponent in the presidential race, drawing a smattering of jeers from an audience of about 1,000 people. "She was Indian all the way, and all of a sudden she made a turn and became a Black person."

Trump doing his best every day to live up to the Harris attack point of "Old and weird'.

This kind of dialogue was slowly dying out in multi-racial societies but Trump is doing his best to revive it with the MAGA movement.

People of mixed heritage hate this binary thinking. Many with families here in Japan dread it, especially with the older generation.

Trump richly deserves all the derision and roasting coming for this as well as a resounding defeat in the coming election.

Trump has always been a total racist ass. It doesn't take a PhD to see it. All his questions and comments when considered from that perspective actually make sense that they'd come out of his festering mouth. He's a disgrace to the nation.

Absurd. It makes about as much sense as Harris questioning whether Trump is actually orange or not.

Oh boy, the usuals going wild

Very true sir, we billionaires are always calm.

she identified as Indian as recently as 2016 election.

Very true sir , she mentioned that her mother was Indian, I am shocked!!!

she grew up Hindu in Canada. 

She was in Quebec sir, so it’s French Hindu

real black people who aren’t attack job artists sent from ABC News (he is successfully suing them) recognize what is being said.

I am fully confident donald will win his lawsuit, he’s had a string of legal successes!!!

As expected, Trump couldn’t help but take a racial swipe at a woman who is mocking him in front of a crowd of minority journalists.

And of course like the coward he is, he bailed after 30 min because stupid though he is, even he could see what a train wreck he had created.

itsonlyrocknroll

View the Interview before foaming at the mouth, context, the questions could construed to be leading.

LIVE: Donald Trump speaks to journalists in Chicago

I saw the interview. It was an absolute dumpster fire for Trump.

I have no idea why he showed up. It's one thing speaking to MAGA blacks at your rallies, but when you are in front of journalists, don't expect the usual ramblings will work.

Is Trump of Scottish or German descent? He can't be both.

"I have been the best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln," he boasted.

. . . without elaborating.

Making fun of someone

Trump is legally a rapist

Just as bad. Making fun of someone

Trump, of course, would never stoop so low as to make fun of people.

This was Laugh Out Loud funny.

He just literally rambled incoherently nonstop. How anybody with a functioning intellect likes him, is beyond me.

I like how the MAGA cultists are all about Right to Life and family l... until the child is born L. After that, it's pro-Death Penalty and if you get sick amd can't afford your treatment or medicine, you cam go and die in the hospital car park.

"I honestly feel like it wasn't as conducive as we hoped it would be," she said. "I feel like what we heard were several things that he said before, and there were questions that weren't fully answered."

Indeed, this behavior closely resembles Trump. He engages in repetitive discourse and fails to address the pertinent concerns of the electorate.

Literally nothing this rapist can say about race that won't be offensive and that's a good thing.

It's amazing to watch Trump's campaign and chances of re-election implode before our eyes.

What a difference a week makes.

At the risk of sounding pedantic, I would say that Asian Americans don't identify with her, because the term 'Asians' in the US is used more for East Asians.

OH, I'm Asian American and I identify with her, so I'd say I speak from experience and knowledge while you speak of, I dunno...I don't say this as an insult, but what you write doesn't affect me as pedantic, more like racism, from where I sit.

Yes, Trump should continue his campaign against Biden. Right until November.

Biden is still President, so it is Biden/Harris.

Biden is no longer running.

The Republicans are so screwed.

"Is she Indian or is she Black?" 

She’s both. It’s really easy to understand. Only a moron would pretend not to.

Trump and vance, the republicans are stuck with them now- oh dear.

No just mocking his daily makeup regime.

Just as bad. Making fun of someone

Fun fact: Trump is racist AND he makes fun of people.

For being disabled. For being old (Pot, this is kettle). For being fat (Kettle, this is pot). For being “ugly”.

Oh, and he’s also a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist.

A real politician would be speaking about their policies not wasting time slagging off Harris.

I already knew he was racist, the people who treat him like a saint are racist as well. I agree with Biden on most things but not everything because I know he is not perfect. But the people in Trumps corner act like it is impossible to disagree with him on even the smallest thing. I can't imagine being brainwashed to the point where I don't know the words coming out of my mouth or not understanding what it is I agree with. Trumpism at it's finest y'all sold your soul to Maga

trump going into full self-destruction and cognitive decline mode now.

he’s like elvis.

Oh, well, a-bless my soul, but what's wrong with me?

I'm all shook up 

Mm-mm, yeah, yeah, yeah

At one point, someone yelled out, "Sir, have you no shame?" 

Trump stared blankly at the man for several seconds before answering “Haven’t you been paying attention for all of my adult life? Of course not!”

Her BIRTH CERTIFICATE identifies her mother as Caucasian born in India (assume to be true?) and her father as Jamaican (not a race but a nationality).

You’ve seen her birth certificate?

Sure. There wasn't any.

And you know this how? You were in the audience?

It was televised, Hawking. The full clip is on YouTube.

We can all see it.

I loved the part where he gets asked if Harris was a DEI hire and he challenges the questioner to define DEI, and she does.

TRUMP: How do you how do you define DEI? Go ahead.

SCOTT: Diversity, equity, inclusion.

And he continues to badger her about the definition of DEI.

TRUMP: You have to define it. Define it for me.

SCOTT: I just defined it, sir. Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman?

And the Trump combines his conspiracy go to with his signature whine:

TRUMP: I think somebody should look into that too. When you continue in a very hostile, nasty tone

Yes, so if you tell someone your opponent will show up and they don’t, we would call that person a liar.

Trump isn't willing to show up for the September debate.

Team Weird knows it will make him look bad.

just one of many examples of Harris being called the first Indian American senator, first Indian American AG. It goes on and on! She never once corrected any of them by saying she was also black! Not once!!

Less than 100 days to go into the election and I already know the same right wing talking points are going to get increasingly tiresome. Just like Trump they never learn.

Posters claiming to be American POC zealously defending every right wing talking point ,even things like higher crime rates and lower IQs among minorities with non-sequitur and garbled syntax: Check.

'Leftist, Marxist Dems, Californian Communism' red baiting rhetoric : Check.

Harris 'lied' about her ethnicity on her birth certificate : Check

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-kamala-harris-did-not-switch-from-identifying-as-indian-american-to-idUSKBN25H1Q9/

Well, you know you talked about repeat a lie often enough...Trump certainly follows this advice.

And I'll say again...are US elections a policy free zone....Bass wants "cheaper food and less migrants "...{two things that are actually oppositional, given the status of farm workers }...but thats as far as anyone has commented on policy.

It's as if the USA is a planet in space, off on its own ,with no interests in the wider world {except military adventurism of course }

Here's some ideas....interest rates, tax rates, trade treaties, foreign affairs, social welfare, affordable schooling, restructuring decaying infrastructure , military spending and on and on.

All Trump has is attacks on his opponents colour and racial heritage.

Trump is a total idiot and his cult just follows the illogic, indecency and insults to people. Whether it is Harris, and who a person is, genetically, or judging that person as an attack on their racial character, he is so wrong both in logic and narrative, support for this guy, dwindling quickly as he keeps opening his geriatric mouth, is embarrassing to anyone who speaks english as a first language.

This argument around here about liberals this, libs that has nothing to do with all the wrongs and lies said by MAGA.

They simply support any Trump problem and use 'lib' as if it is a cuss word for anything negative. It isn't. In fact 'liberal' isn't the issue, at all. It's an immature and juvenile gotcha world of silliness to so weakly use a blanket word for their own dissatisfaction (and ignorance). MAGA wants narrative in their arguments. They don't want facts, information and truths.

Harris uses facts, information and truths (and communicative abilities) that Trump does not. It's why he is reneging on debating her. She'd decimate his latest words on her, as well as everything he lies about and with his age showing greatly, he knows he can't go thru a debate without anger, losing his mind. Him being a blowhard coward, will find an excuse not to debate Harris.

There was interview on Fox with Pete Buttigieg where he made a point on fact and asked the interviewer and audience to look it up. The interviewer said, 'we're not going to do that'. That's the ignorance and narrative of MAGA led Fox and other completely one sided Trump world. They don't want to find all the facts, only the one's that might fit their lies.

Can you image if Buttigieg was the VP candidate, (and would be a great one)? MAGA would explode over a mixed race woman and a gay man leading the USA. Trump wouldn't be able to contain himself from saying non sensical insults of which maybe...maybe some MAGA cultists wake up to and realize how wrong, deranged, stupid and wrong MAGA is. Yes, very racist and bigoted.

MAGA will be over by November, as clearly the pendulum has moved away from an apathy of Biden/Trump to Kamala power rising.

Trump sure had a tough time trying to explain what a "Black Job" is....the whole audience laughed at him...

He'd have an easier time explaining what an "Illegal Immigrant Job" is....being a maid at Bedminster or Mar-A-Lago...

The latest strange words of Donald leads to further support the description of late that Trump/Vance are weird.

Weirdness of Trump and Vance is catching on with young voters because...well, when the young generation look and hear what those two say, it's so truly weird, there is no choice but for youth to laugh at them.

How they act and speak, they're so weird, and that description is going viral, countering Harris' logic, manner and coherent campaign to the presidency.

At the end of the day, Trump did an awful job at this event. He couldn't answer most, if not all, of the questions asked. The "answers" he did give we substantively awful, and repeatedly ripped apart both the group and the reporters. If this was Trump's attempt at reaching out to black voters, he really mucked it up.

There must be a reason why. Won't speculate on the what the Feds are doing. Just wait and see.

Will we hear about it before the kraken or Donnie's healthcare plan is released?

TokyoCarnivore

Yet he was right again! first off, the woman who was questioning him as extremely rude and asking him far left talking points trying to bate him.

She was asking him to explain things that he had said in the past. His own words.

he didn't fall for it

Because he couldn't defend himself, so he deflected.

They told him that Kamala would be there as well, another lie.

No, they didn't. She had already declined the invitation due to her schedule.

Then they started 35 minutes late, most likely intentional.

Sounds like a Trump rally.

Hervé L'Eisa

From the very beginning of interview, the first "reporter" was very openly hostile. Typical of far-leftists.

She asked Trump to account for himself. He couldn't, so Trump became hostile.

I'm black and trust me he didn't tank anything from those of us who see the light!

Good for you. You're an anomaly - black people hate Trump. Even with his inroads, he was only at 8%.

Trump - as good as he gets!

Questioning Kamala Harris' race, questioning President Obama's birth-certificate .....

The man is suffering - suffering from old-age-superior-race-syndrome and a couple of other things.

Time for him to drop out before experiencing a total melt-down as well as a disastrous defeat coming November.

Lol, no. It’s not.

Yes, it is, if I internalize it and take it as an insult, who are you to say, it’s not?

Woke alert!

Given Trump’s thoroughly documented history of mocking people (and your thoroughly documented history of covering for him), were you able to keep a straight face typing that?

I wasn’t able to keep a straight face reading it.

So how about stop calling her "African American." Elon Musk is more African American than she is.

The US government officially define citizens with Jamaican ancestry as African American.

We went through this last week. I posted the official US Gov website and everything.

So how about stop calling her "African American." Elon Musk is more African American than she is.

I am 99% sure that all those posting that Harris is somehow 'not black' or African-American and themselves claiming to be black Trump supporters are not, themselves, Black.

Mr. Trump is of German and Scottish ancestry. Does that matter?

Both he and Ms. Harris are Americans, born and bred. That's all that matters. Or at least it should be.

His handlers need to rethink his appearances.

Best keep him away from situations involving direct questions like this. He’s not mentally up to this kind of thing anymore.

White knuckles for the handlers.

I strongly encourage our Republican brothers to very vociferously express to people that she is not black. The people must know, and you guys should tell them. Spread the word, make it loud!

You won't seem weird at all.

Given the situation with the drug epidemic in the late 70"s and Frank Lucas and his minions slingling hash and coke on the streets 90% of the drug dealers on the streets were Black or Puerto Rican and a lot of that money was kicked back up to the Colombo family they sure as well didn't want to get their hands dirty and they couldn't be seen selling drugs or they would have been clipped and of course and with reason Trump didn't want that in his hotels or casinos, sorry, but those were the stats.

He should explain that to the black community. I'm sure they'll be ok with his discrimination once they understand.

Is there a National Association of Latino Journalists? It would be great to see him speak at the Latinos too. They should know how much he thinks they should love him.

bass4funk

Trump richly deserves all the derision and roasting coming for this as well as a resounding defeat in the coming election.

And the praise as well.

Sure. There wasn't any.

There are decades of interviews of him just like this. How anyone ever saw and now sees Trump as fit to lead anything other than a dunce parade, is beyond belief.

TokyoCarnivore

just one of many examples of Harris being called the first Indian American senator, first Indian American AG. It goes on and on!

Sure. It's true. She certainly wasn't the first black senator.

She never once corrected any of them by saying she was also black! Not once!!

You can be both at the same time. She is American Indian. And she is black.

Can you believe this idiot? He thinks Black folks will vote for him when;

He was the author of the racist "Birther conspiracy" that said the nation's first Black President was illegitimate by falsely claiming he wasn't born in the US...

Lied and maliciously condemned the "Central Park Five" - five black teens falsely accused of rape...

Had Neo-Nazi and white supremacist Nick Fuentes over for a nice dinner at MAL...

Said "some Neo-Nazis" were "fine people"...

And according to his nephew, regularly used the N-word...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fred-c-trump-iii-says-donald-trump-repeatedly-used-n-word

He'd have more luck trying to get E. Jean Carroll to vote for him...

“She became black” (emphasis added) as if it’s a choice. And as I said before, not everything, in fact most things are not strictly binary options.

For example, Trump is a convicted felon AND mega-weird.

And now one can add (again) racist.

Trump should be very vocal about how rude black people are for questioning him about his history of being rude about black people.

I think that's a way to get more of the black vote. Especially if he tells them that the ones that don't vote for him aren't really black.

If the democrats want to win, they should just be quiet.

Trump and Vance are getting more batshit crazy by the day. The silent majority will soon be going, ' Nope, Nope. Nope. Ain't got time for that level of mad bastardry'

Old and weird. Drunk uncle at thanksgiving dinner level ramblings.

I’ll miss his unintentional comedy next year, we should savour every moment. Still, we’ll have the memories and the videos.

Maybe one of his sons can run in 2036.

--The same way someone can take great pride in having been a WaPo journalist, with a private jet, 

True, true

You deleted Fortune 500 CEO.

bass4funkToday  08:27 am JST

Trump just shown us what a Mensch he is and went into some serious hostile territory,

Is there a hostile territory for Kamala that isn't already a disgrace?

so when will Kamala do one? She says she can easily take on Trump or the conservative news outlets, Trump goes, she doesn’t. Again, the woman is just all talk. Nothing more.

Was she invited for a one on one interview? Kamala doesn't need the felon making faces and talking over her.

Having failed at convincing Black folks to vote for him, Trump has decided to take on another voting challenge that he thinks will be more successful...

He's going to Gaza and will urge the Palestinians to vote for Bibi...

When asked about his chances for success, Trump responded "Bigly"...

This guy is just pathetic

zibala

A real politician would be speaking about their policies not wasting time slagging off Harris.

This is US politics though so non-US citizens have difficulty understanding this matter and instead rely on woke mainstream news sites for their information.

My parents were Americans. Much of my large family is American.

No, it is how top politicians the world over should behave with dignity and statesmanship. Trump does not have that.

Trump would not rent his New York properties to Blacks. Then there's the Central Park Five.

Trump called for the death penalty for five innocent men.

The highlights of the event were Trump's views on 'black jobs'.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/31/trump-nabj-interview-quotes-00172165

“A lot of the journalists in this room are Black,” Trump said, prompting laughter and gasps from the audience. “I will tell you that coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking Black jobs.”

The reaction of the assembled black journalists is priceless.

The immigrant invasion from insane asylums, of rapists and murderers in Trump's view are taking up 'Black jobs' so blacks should vote for him.

You can't make this stuff up.

Then why can someone get away with calling herself Black, when she was clearly raised by her single Indian American mother?

You're right. You need to be very loud that she is not black. You need to especially tell black people, since they seem not to know.

Magas gatekeeping race for their racist cult leader. Are they deliberately alienating every demographic except low IQ rednecks?

Biden

Yes, Trump should continue his campaign against Biden. Right until November.

They can't pick up a book????

Maybe, but you should definitely tell them. Make sure to say it to every black person you see, just to make sure they're on the same page.

That's ok, because he's done a lot more for Blacks, so most do know particularly in NYC

You should tell black people that, they don't seem to know. If you told them this, they would be more likely to vote for Trump.

Biden is still President

Yes, and Trump should continue to campaign against him. He's still campaigning against Obama after all, he's said it a few times now.

John

As expected, Trump couldn’t help but take a racial swipe at a woman who is mocking him in front of a crowd of minority journalists.

And of course like the coward he is, he bailed after 30 min because stupid though he is, even he could see what a train wreck he had created.

His handlers pulled him. Stop himself making more of a fool of himself.

Foot meet mouth one more time.

Her BIRTH CERTIFICATE identifies her mother as Caucasian born in India (assume to be true?) and her father as Jamaican (not a race but a nationality).

I have been giving Trump the benefit of the doubt on his cognitive fitness; it was never great. But going back to Obama Birtherism which backfired is sure showing some progressive senile dementia.

Ha ha ha... And they thought an 81 year old was incompetent. The orange felon is a moron.

He's not physically well enough to be president. Of course there is the fact he's a rapist, child sex trafficker, convicted felon, Epstein's bum boy, crook & grifter, dictator wannabe and generally a raving lunatic.

The title of the hit piece is disingenuous at best.

Nonsense. The title accurately describes what Trump said in his interview.

The reporter made several false assertions in the guise of asking "questions". Akin to "Is it true that stopped smashing golf carts with 9-irons last month?"

Name one. It's very telling when one claims a reporter made several false assertions, and then rather than provide an example, they veer off and give an analogy. I think I know why, too.

Her BIRTH CERTIFICATE identifies her mother as Caucasian born in India (assume to be true?) and her father as Jamaican (not a race but a nationality).

Fun fact: there are lots of black people in Jamaica.

Funner fact: We know who her father is.

Funnest fact: We know her father is a black Jamaican man. Now what would that make Kamala Harris?

Harris dons a fake "southern-black" accent when she appears before actual African-American people.

Shocking when politicians do that thing that politicians are known to do.

From the very beginning of interview, the first "reporter" was very openly hostile.

Not hostile, but certainly difficult questions. Questions Trump was ill-equipped to answer. The only kinds of interviews he can handle are puff pieces from friendly media.

The biggest threat to the Marxist dem party is having black Americans thinking for themselves. This is why they constantly make racist remarks about blacks all the time and they get away with it.

This sounds entirely reasonable. The Civil Rights Act was clearly a Marxist attempt to disempower Blacks.

I recommend that Trump 'n' friends push this theory more vociferously.

He was the author of the racist "Birther conspiracy" that said the nation's first Black President was illegitimate by falsely claiming he wasn't born in the US...

To be fair, it was Clinton's campaign that came up with that. But no one ran further with it than Trump.

Yes, so if you tell someone your opponent will show up and they don’t, we would call that person a liar.

Mummy, mummy... they hurt my feelings. Oh dear.

Trump's father a German was forced to leave that country.

"In February 1905, a royal decree was issued ordering Trump to leave within eight weeks due to having emigrated to evade military service and failing to register his departure with the authorities."

Father's bone spurs.

Care to share about Kamala's family history on her father's side? You can fact check it and you will be completely SHOCKED.

Oooh, smells like a conspiracy...

Nah, he is a Stanford professor, a well-known economist, and yes you can describe him as a Marxist.

Claps as well.

Yeah, you could hear three or four trumpers clapping sometimes, when the people laughing at him quieted down.

Her BIRTH CERTIFICATE identifies her mother as Caucasian born in India (assume to be true?) and her father as Jamaican (not a race but a nationality).

I have been giving Trump the benefit of the doubt

bass4funk

Is Trump of Scottish or German descent? He can't be both.

> That would fall under the mixed category

Like you. German and American Spanish.

itsonlyrocknroll

Underworld, your question as to why Donald Trump would accept such and invitation implies and suggest hostility.

No, it doesn't. He doesn't have a good record with the black community. Did he think that he wouldn't be called out for it going into an interview with a black journalist?

That a republican nominee should not for a moment consider walking into a media "bear pit" partisan democrat slanted, National Association of Black Journalists convention, a potential hot bed of aggressive, argumentative, so should not be given a fair hearing.

He was given a fair hearing, he just didn't respond well to it.

Underworld be open you would rather had fate silenced Donald Trump at that rally.

What? I'm glad he went. Shows Trump for what he is, yet again.

When asked about his position on granting police officers immunity following the death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy in Illinois, Trump acknowledged that he didn't know much about the case - drawing some gasps from the crowd

I’m sure that will help lock up the support of “the blacks”, lol.

 the left are just and as usual triggered by any word or phrase when a white person engages in a dialogue with anyone of color.

Yes. Trump only wondered about Obama's birthplace because it's what he asks of anybody. He also repeatedly paused before emphasizing Obama's middle name because it's what he does to anybody's name.

Some people think Trump deliberately mispronounces Harris' name because he's racist. Not true! He mispronounces everybody's name!

The ones that think about their pocketbooks and not race, yes.

Well, the people that want to be looked at as humans, rather than, and I quote, "animals", will vote for Kamala.

bass4funk

She asked Trump to account for himself. He couldn't, so Trump became hostile.

Well, they shouldn’t have lied to him,

They didn't.

I’d be ticked off as well and yes, as a reporter you should introduce yourself before any interview and explain what the interview will be about or the direction

She thanked Trump for his time at the start of the interview, which was more than courteous.

She didn't need to "explain what the interview will be about or the direction", because the first question made that obvious.

Very true sir, I remember you used to identify as Canadian during your early days on this site, but now you identify is American!!!

Identity is a very fluid thing. Kamala Harris takes great pride in being both Black and South Asian, having been a prosecutor, senator, AND vice president.

The same way someone can take great pride in having been a WaPo journalist, a Fortune 500 CEO with a private jet, AND homeschooled.

As the Canadians say, it's all one big mosaic!

Republicans were counting on this being a contest between two old white guys. The apathy, combined with MAGA vehemence, was supposed to bring a Trump victory.

Instead, a not old, not white, not man, has invigorated the populace, who wanted something new, rather than tired old men.

And MAGA can't figure out how to deal with it, because their two top fighters are both really weird.

Just as bad. Making fun of someone

Woke

The same way someone can take great pride in having been a WaPo journalist, with a private jet, 

True, true

You deleted Fortune 500 CEO.

Also neglected to include former prison inmate.

Perhaps that’s just an oversight. I mean, in addition to being so sensitive to the orange blob’s feelings, it has so many undocumented accomplishments….

Perhaps they just forgot?

Harris: I'll sign the border legislation day one.

Trump: She's not really black you know.

Strong counter argument.

Trump just tanked the black vote. And he was actually making inroads.

The Republicans are so screwed come November.

Correction : "than candidate for high office "

What a breath of fresh air Trump brings to America....like a fart in a phone box.

People were asking why the NABJ let him speak.

"Give a man enough rope..."

They let him speak, so he could say what he said. It was a blessing for the Democrats.

The ones that think about their pocketbooks and not race, yes.

Yes sir totally agree, they cannot compete against the clutch bags of us billionaires!!!

Yeah, boy. You are so sharp, Mr. Trump. Part of the transcript: Oh, that isn't drool on my chin and shirt. The guys were kidding with me and gave me a dribble cup of water. Hah hah hah. My crew are great guys." Neither side suits me too very much, but I have to say the Republicans are pushing me to the left pretty hard.

People are upset that the Felon's feelings were hurt because the reporter asked some tough questions from the other side of the political opinion spectrum.

The rightwing woke brigade. Just as stupid as the leftwing woke.

Everytime Trump get charged with a crime,he want Black sympathy, weird

she identified as Indian as recently as 2016 election.

she grew up Hindu in Canada.

real black people who aren’t attack job artists sent from ABC News (he is successfully suing them) recognize what is being said.

Yes, keep justifying how she isn't black. I'm pretty sure that will win your team the black vote.

The republican way has always been about segregation and dividing people hence why they love to pit different race groups against each other, well news flash we weren't taught to be racist like y'all

@EvilBuddha

The kids of an Indian American with a white spouse will not be considered white. They will be considered as mixed race.

Then why can someone get away with calling herself Black, when she was clearly raised by her single Indian American mother?

You are neither Black nor Indian what does it matter to you and what makes you think you have any rights to comment on that?

Trump going to that interview is just him filling off a checklist, he gives no dams about the Black or Latino community same for his Maga followers who spit out the same web of lies. Only pretending to care when you need them

I don’t think he was saying anything offensive

I agree. Nobody loves "the Blacks" as much as Trump. I remember a group of maybe a dozen Black people going up to Trump, tears streaming down their cheeks, and saying to him, "Sir, you've done more for us than practically anyone in history. They said it couldn't be done. We've never seen anything like it."

Trump needs to keep up this rhetoric if he wants to win in November!

He's not physically well enough to be president.

Nor mentally. He's an 80 year old man, swiftly falling into dementia.

Biden clearly had more clarity by stepping down, Trump should do that for the good of his own party. But he won't and they're losing as a result.

Well, they shouldn’t have lied to him

Yeah Trump hates liars... Ha ha ha. Comedy gold!

Looks like trump just lost the vote of millions more Americans with this one. He already had the white supremacist vote locked in, best not to alienate everyone that is not white.

He was leading Biden, but is now trailing Harris and this trend continues.

He would be more successful if he just stayed in his basement and never opened his mouth.

I finally watched some clips from the interview. What was Trump thinking?

Oh, my bad for assuming that Trump thinks.

Trump addressing the most important issues facing America....skin colour and racial heritage.

Sounds more like a "Proud Boy " that candidate for high office.

BTW "Proud Boys " sounds like a K Pop boy band.

Well, facts are facts, she has a Indian Heritage not a Afro-American heritage, many in this conference did not know.. now they will find out...

Her mom is from India and her dad is from Jamaica, ie black. So trump got confused on this one.

“A lot of the journalists in this room are Black,” Trump said, prompting laughter and gasps from the audience.

The audience laughed at him a number of times. It was enjoyable.

I'm sure it's a very stupid rabbit hole but I'm guessing that 'South Asian/Indian' was not an option for Kamala's mother way back when.

Trump people: it's time to change the candidate. Biden did, but the problem is Trump drops out (and he should) he goes to jail/prison soon(er). He also has to pay up for the sexual assault judgement as he is legally a racist. I'm a never Trumper. But there are some Republicans I might vote for - just not Trump

just one of many examples....

So?

I remember as a kid watching cartoons if there are kids running against each other to be class president it will normally be the one who played dirty that ends up losing and the one who was fair and focused on the issues or the change ended up winning. Everytime Trump opens his mouth he gives us another reason why he should never be in a position of power again. Jan 6 is small compared to what he would try to pull next

Trump White fragility was on display,wait to she get him in the debate

Hey, there's nothing wrong with Dutch ancestry!

Absurd. It makes about as much sense as Harris questioning whether Trump is actually orange or not.

> Looks like trump just lost the vote of millions more Americans with this one. He already had the white supremacist vote locked in, best not to alienate everyone that is not white.

Trump doesn't need over 50%, just like 2-8% that will help him get over the EC.

He was leading Biden, but is now trailing Harris and this trend continues.

No, he's not.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris

He would be more successful if he just stayed in his basement and never opened his mouth.

Biden

Is there a National Association of Latino Journalists?

Yes

It would be great to see him speak at the Latinos too. They should know how much he thinks they should love him.

I think so

Underworld, your question as to why Donald Trump would accept such and invitation implies and suggest hostility.

That a republican nominee should not for a moment consider walking into a media "bear pit" partisan democrat slanted, National Association of Black Journalists convention, a potential hot bed of aggressive, argumentative, so should not be given a fair hearing.

How dare Donald Trump so very much.

Underworld be open you would rather had fate silenced Donald Trump at that rally.

Trump questions whether Harris is 'Black' at conference of Black journalists

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"Is she Indian or is she Black?" Trump said of his opponent in the presidential race, drawing a smattering of jeers from an audience of about 1,000 people. "She was Indian all the way, and all of a sudden she made a turn and became a Black person."

Trump needs to be careful with his words because the media loves to distort the true meaning of what he says—the problem is that he is not a politician (you know, the boring kind—fake and robotic) and he isn’t presidential enough to some people but that’s exactly why people like him and that’s why they will still vote for him.

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“ Is she Indian or is she Black?”

Kamala is multiracial so she can be both but she was never interested in representing the Indian and Black communities—she’s playing the race (and gender) card because that’s the only thing that can put her in the White House. Trump knows this but he shouldn’t say it out loud but he doesn’t give a d-mn because, like I said, he’s not a politician/presidential.

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Since launching her White House campaign earlier this month, Harris has faced a barrage of sexist and racist attacks online, with some far-right accounts questioning her racial identity. Republican Party leaders have urged lawmakers to refrain from personal attacks and focus on her policy positions.

Trump himself has used personal insults against Harris and said he was going to ignore advice that he tone down his rhetoric in this campaign. "I'm not gonna be nice!" he told supporters at one campaign rally.

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An extremely complicated situation for everyone in the Republican side—everyone knows that a big part of the American electorate will vote against Trump, not for Harris and that this incredibly incompetent candidate is playing the race and gender cards—it ain’t pretty.

“A lot of the journalists in this room are Black,” Trump said, prompting laughter and gasps from the audience. “I will tell you that coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking Black jobs.”

Claps as well.

The reaction of the assembled black journalists is priceless.

Yup, they didn't think that Trump would fight back. The only one that showed respect was Harris Faulkner

The immigrant invasion from insane asylums, of rapists and murderers in Trump's view are taking up 'Black jobs' so blacks should vote for him.

True because of white liberals

You can't make this stuff up.

Sadly, you cannot.

Bass4, their is not enough White people

Trump also declined to say whether Harris was a "DEI hire," as some fellow Republicans have claimed, saying, "I don't know."

If DEI is such a great thing, why do people get upset when you call them a DEI hire?

OH, I'm Asian American and I identify with her, so I'd say I speak from experience and knowledge while you speak of, I dunno...I don't say this as an insult, but what you write doesn't affect me as pedantic, more like racism, from where I sit.

Yeah right, play the race card. Racism would be me supporting her just because she is half-Indian. Just like many Chinese Americans supported Andrew Yang without looking at his what he was promising.

Once Harris surpasses Trump in every poll, I'll start to panic until them, she has a looooot of catching up to do.

The part the leftist media will take out was what he said after he ask about her now claiming to be black, he said i respect her ethnicity either way.

"What he just said is repulsive," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing in response to Trump's remarks. "It's insulting."

Why is it repulsive? Please explain.

Harris is Black and Indian. Her father, Donald Harris, is a Black man who was born in Jamaica. Shyamala Gopalan, her mother, was born in southern India.

So how about stop calling her "African American." Elon Musk is more African American than she is.

This is all the Left has to stand on, her race. I hear ZERO about her policies. I also hear ZERO about her track record as well.

Well, that went about as well as one might have imagined.

Well, facts are facts, she has a Indian Heritage not a Afro-American heritage, many in this conference did not know.. now they will find out...

Trump would not rent his New York properties to Blacks. Then there's the Central Park Five.

Trump called for the death penalty for five innocent men.

Given the situation with the drug epidemic in the late 70"s and Frank Lucas and his minions slingling hash and coke on the streets 90% of the drug dealers on the streets were Black or Puerto Rican and a lot of that money was kicked back up to the Colombo family they sure as well didn't want to get their hands dirty and they couldn't be seen selling drugs or they would have been clipped and of course and with reason Trump didn't want that in his hotels or casinos, sorry, but those were the stats.

I already knew he was racist, the people who treat him like a saint are racist as well.

Sure keep on repeating that lie over and over again.

I don't deny that there are racists among his support base. But there are racists on the other side as well, they just hide their racism better.

I have experienced more racism on this forum from pseudo-liberal racists who hate Trump than from the Trump supporters.

Yeah Trump hates liars... Ha ha ha. Comedy gold

Yes, so if you tell someone your opponent will show up and they don’t, we would call that person a liar.

https://x.com/immeme0/status/1818744231844102594?s=46

just one of many examples of Harris being called the first Indian American senator, first Indian American AG. It goes on and on! She never once corrected any of them by saying she was also black! Not once!!

Trump's father a German was forced to leave that country.

Care to share about Kamala's family history on her father's side? You can fact check it and you will be completely SHOCKED.

Trump questions whether Harris is 'Black' at conference of Black journalists

Couldn’t we call this headline misinformation? Well I guess the idiocracy gang will fall for it.

The kids of an Indian American with a white spouse will not be considered white. They will be considered as mixed race.

Then why can someone get away with calling herself Black, when she was clearly raised by her single Indian American mother?

The fact is that it's politically convenient for her to switch identities depending on her audience.

At the risk of sounding pedantic, I would say that Asian Americans don't identify with her, because the term 'Asians' in the US is used more for East Asians. In the UK it's used more for South Asians and difference is because it highlights the distinct historical immigration patterns respectively to the US and UK.

You are neither Black nor Indian what does it matter to you and what makes you think you have any rights to comment on that?

Do you want me to speak in Hindi or Punjabi? Your type are called chewtiyas where I come from.

To be fair, it was Clinton's campaign that came up with that. But no one ran further with it than Trump.

To be fair that is true and I always thought it was the wrong thing to do whether it was him or any other Republican was clear about it back then. Never doubted about where Obama was born, no reason to doubt the guy

Identity is a very fluid thing. Kamala Harris takes great pride in being both Black and South Asian,

Ok, I’m German and American, I’m proud and unrepentant, doesn’t make me special.

having been a prosecutor, senator, AND vice president.

Yeah, I would be careful running on those attributes

The same way someone can take great pride in having been a WaPo journalist, with a private jet,

True, true

AND homeschooled. 

Who?

As the Canadians say, it's all one big mosaic!

Huh?

Woke alert! 

Given Trump’s thoroughly documented history of mocking people

As well as the left mocking him

(and your thoroughly documented history of covering for him), were you able to keep a straight face typing that? 

Yes.

I wasn’t able to keep a straight face reading it.

Then you don’t.

The US election circus show at its best, both sides come up with some ridiculous stuff. First Trump wasn't injured by a bullet now Harris might not be black. Priorities. World shakes its head.

He should explain that to the black community. 

They can't pick up a book????

I'm sure they'll be ok with his discrimination once they understand.

That's ok, because he's done a lot more for Blacks, so most do know particularly in NYC

Yes, Trump should continue his campaign against Biden. Right until November.

Biden is still President, so it is Biden/Harris

Cultists will vote for him- and they'll happily say a rape conviction means nothing. 

Yup, if it indeed happened. I wasn't there so..

I'm sure you'll provide documentation of her rape conviction- another pathetic deflection.

We have other info on here why she lost.

Weird Don used to walk in on the girls changing at Miss Teen USA.

Allegedly

And he bragged about it on air, how they would have to talk to him while undressed.

More lib madness.

You’ve seen her birth certificate?

Yes, it's public record.

I’m sure that will help lock up the support of “the blacks”, lol.

The ones that think about their pocketbooks and not race, yes.

She asked Trump to account for himself. He couldn't, so Trump became hostile.

Well, they shouldn’t have lied to him,

They didn't.

She thanked Trump for his time at the start of the interview, which was more than courteous. 

She didn't need to "explain what the interview will be about or the direction", because the first question made that obvious.

Trump is a total idiot and his cult just follows the illogic,

No, we ant more police, cheaper gas and an end to the Biden/Myorkas border policies.

support for this guy, dwindling quickly

Not according to the latest polls, not even close.

as he keeps opening his geriatric mouth, is embarrassing to anyone who speaks english as a first language. 

Then you would hate Harris

This argument around here about liberals this, libs that has nothing to do with all the wrongs and lies said by MAGA. 

They simply support any Trump problem and use 'lib' as if it is a cuss word for anything negative. It isn't.

The libs do the opposite

In fact 'liberal' isn't the issue, at all. It's an immature and juvenile gotcha world of silliness to so weakly use a blanket word for their own dissatisfaction (and ignorance). MAGA wants narrative in their arguments. They don't want facts, information and truths. 

No, its spot on the truth and the right should embrace it and use it. Their toxic policies are one of the reasons we got Trump in the fist place.

Harris uses facts, information and truths (and communicative abilities) that Trump does not. It's why he is reneging on debating her.

So then why are the libs and many social media outlets scrubbing the next of her past history? Why? That’s public information. Thankfully, I got a lot of stuff and other other conservatives as well just in case.

She'd decimate his latest words on her,

Hillary and 17 Republicans thought so as well. If history is an indicator of anything it’s Trump will crush his opponent.

I agree. Nobody loves "the Blacks" as much as Trump. I remember a group of maybe a dozen Black people going up to Trump, tears streaming down their cheeks, and saying to him, "Sir, you've done more for us than practically anyone in history.

Quite a few videos online where some say something similar to that

They said it couldn't be done. We've never seen anything like it."

More like finally a politician that kept his promise

Trump needs to keep up this rhetoric if he wants to win in November!

Absolutely

"Trump just tanked the black vote. And he was actually making inroads."

I'm black and trust me he didn't tank anything from those of us who see the light! Why do you white libs constantly think you know what black people think? You don't!

We too think Kamala is a fake black woman!

The dems are so scared now that so many black Americans are waking up to their deceit and they are no longer falling in line. The biggest threat to the Marxist dem party is having black Americans thinking for themselves. This is why they constantly make racist remarks about blacks all the time and they get away with it.

That is exactly right. Dems always run on race, they can’t run on much else.

They didn't.

She did about the schedule

She thanked Trump for his time at the start of the interview, which was more than courteous. 

Before about the schedule and apologizing for the delay and scheduling of Kamala

She didn't need to "explain what the interview will be about or the direction",

Not the question but the direction and you can do that without revealing what questions you will ask

because the first question made that obvious.

How??? I think them lying would.

https://x.com/joeymannarinous/status/1818561217721508156?s=46

I guess the leftist forget this as well! She wasn’t the first mixed candidate of black and south Asian descent, no she was only of south Asian descent!

You libs think Trump statement looks bad! Haha No it’s right on the mark! Black Americans are tired of these fake individuals like Kamala using our race to push their political agenda!

No just mocking his daily makeup regime.

Just as bad. Making fun of someone

Literally nothing this rapist can say about race that won't be offensive and that's a good thing.

Because the left are looking for anything they can find that they can tag the racist sticker to it.

Trump just shown us what a Mensch he is and went into some serious hostile territory, so when will Kamala do one? She says she can easily take on Trump or the conservative news outlets, Trump goes, she doesn’t. Again, the woman is just all talk. Nothing more.

From the very beginning of interview, the first "reporter" was very openly hostile. Typical of far-leftists.

She asked Trump to account for himself. He couldn't, so Trump became hostile.

Well, they shouldn’t have lied to him, I’d be ticked off as well and yes, as a reporter you should introduce yourself before any interview and explain what the interview will be about or the direction

Yes. Trump only wondered about Obama's birthplace because it's what he asks of anybody.

Hillary and John Podesta were the ones that got that ball rolling back in 2015

He also repeatedly paused before emphasizing Obama's middle name because it's what he does to anybody's name.

Why? Hussein is his name, why liberals get so teary-eyed about it?

Some people think Trump deliberately mispronounces Harris' name because he's racist. Not true! He mispronounces everybody's name

So when liberals mispronounce his name and call him Orange are racists, according to the left.

as well as everything he lies about and with his age showing greatly, he knows he can't go thru a debate without anger, losing his mind. Him being a blowhard coward, will find an excuse not to debate Harris.

Harris has a bad temper as well. How many staff members quit on her? She treats people like Bleep! Their words.

There was interview on Fox with Pete Buttigieg where he made a point on fact and asked the interviewer and audience to look it up. The interviewer said, 'we're not going to do that'. That's the ignorance and narrative of MAGA led Fox and other completely one sided Trump world.

Because that would be going off on a tangent. The left networks do that and that’s why their ratings are in the toilet. Sticking to the issues are the things people want to hear about.

They don't want to find all the facts, only the one's that might fit their lies. 

If they didn’t then the right would erase all of Trump’s pass, that never happened, he embraces the pros and cons side of his life.

MAGA is. Yes, very racist and bigoted. 

So these people are racists then?

https://x.com/chicago1ray/status/1818685584061407669?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ

MAGA will be over by November, as clearly the pendulum has moved away from an apathy of Biden/Trump to Kamala power rising.

Show me one poll that states this? These are the latest polls

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris

She needs a miracle at this point.

The title of the hit piece is disingenuous at best.

The reporter made several false assertions in the guise of asking "questions". Akin to "Is it true that stopped smashing golf carts with 9-irons last month?"

Fact: Harris ran and was hailed as the first "Indian-American" senator, and has frequently flip-flopped on the race question. Her BIRTH CERTIFICATE identifies her mother as Caucasian born in India (assume to be true?) and her father as Jamaican (not a race but a nationality).

Harris dons a fake "southern-black" accent when she appears before actual African-American people. She is a fraud.

"'Leftist, Marxist Dems, Californian Communism' red baiting rhetoric : Check.

You mean like the lefts talking points

Racist, White supremacy, Homophobe, transphobe, Trump is Hitler all red baiting rhetoric: Check

You gotta remember, Kamala thinks Black culture is smoking weed and rap music. And a certain accent that she tries to mimic, horribly.

”girl, we out here in deez streets…”. Cringe. Oh really? Thought you were VP whatcha doin in da streets?

so she obviously is stealing the culture to appear “cool” and to pander.

Black people know better, Trump is just giving information in case someone is misinformed about who is being repackaged right in front of us.

was Barack Obama ever called “white”? Hmmm….

View the Interview before foaming at the mouth, context, the questions could construed to be leading.

LIVE: Donald Trump speaks to journalists in Chicago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLx0k5_3LTE&t=755s

Oh boy, the usuals going wild.

she identified as Indian as recently as 2016 election.

she grew up Hindu in Canada.

real black people who aren’t attack job artists sent from ABC News (he is successfully suing them) recognize what is being said.

they can decide themselves if they feel she is a legitimate part of their culture or not.

And man, that fake southern Black accent in the ATL was baaaaad.

I would hate to be an African American Democrat who has to go in public and repeat over and over my support of her appropriation of my culture that she hadn’t lived until it was politically convenient.

look at her grandparents, is she Irish now too?

Trump raises a good point. Many black Americans are also questioning her blackness. As we speak, black twitter is eating her up because of her affectatious southern accent on recently on display in Atlanta. It's also been suggested that her Jamaican side were slave holders in Jamaica. So, Trump does raise a valid point. And it seems he's in unison with many black Americans.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with Dutch ancestry!

Now I definitely agree with that!!

As expected, Trump couldn’t help but take a racial swipe at a woman who is mocking him in front of a crowd of minority journalists. 

Nonsense, the left are just and as usual triggered by any word or phrase when a white person engages in a dialogue with anyone of color. Now had the guy made fun, serious fun about her race, then it would be racially insensitive on his part, that’s not what happened.

And of course like the coward he is, he bailed after 30 min because stupid though he is, even he could see what a train wreck he had created.

Yes, because he had another rally he needs to attend. Maybe these people should held to the schedule and not shown up late to the interview. I hate when people are late. He’s a businessman and strict.

Lol, no. It’s not.

Yes, it is, if I internalize it and take it as an insult, who are you to say, it’s not?

A real politician would be speaking about their policies not wasting time slagging off Harris.

This is US politics though so non-US citizens have difficulty understanding this matter and instead rely on woke mainstream news sites for their information.

Sure. There wasn't any.

And you know this how? You were in the audience?

Yet he was right again! first off, the woman who was questioning him as extremely rude and asking him far left talking points trying to bate him. he didn't fall for it They told him that Kamala would be there as well, another lie. Then they started 35 minutes late, most likely intentional.

The problem with the argument for the left is that we have so many articles from the past calling her Indian American and she herself constantly calling herself Indian, even the AP tried to claim Trump was lying only to be called out on X for their past articles calling Kamala and Indian American.

Kamala claimed she would debate Trump anytime anywhere, but she failed to show up in Chicago. Kamala is the reason so many blacks in these big cities are now being pushed to the side by illegal immigrants. It's the Biden/Harris administration that have allowed over almost now 12 million illegals into the country.

Kamala placed so many black men and women into jail and prison, on top of that she was so corrupt she withheld evidence that would have freed many of them.

I watched the Kamala rally in Atlanta, and it was such a disgrace. The bring a female rapper to stage who twerked, this is what the Democrat party thinks all black Americans are like. Kamala once again started talking like she was from the hood, what an utter disrespectful thing to do. I remember when Hillary did the same thing once, talking like she was black.

The female reporter should be fired! Her rudeness was over the top! Unprofessional! She led with her emotions and not logic!

None of the white libs can even name a single policy she herself has in place. Remember she was for defunding the police, she pushed a webpage for people to bail out the violent rioters from 2020 summer of love, she was also involved in the Jessy Smollett lie and cover up!

The left keeps claiming she has more experience than Trump but the only experience they refer to is that the was a prosecutor, and like we all know a extrmely corrupt one at that. Trump was the President!

The left wants to claim that calling her a DEI hire is racist; then why did Biden admit on national tv the only reason he picked her was because of her race? He was on national tv when he said it.

Is Trump of Scottish or German descent? He can't be both.

That would fall under the mixed category

Trump doing his best every day to live up to the Harris attack point of "Old and weird'. 

If you live in a bubble, perhaps

This kind of dialogue was slowly dying out in multi-racial societies but Trump is doing his best to revive it with the MAGA movement. 

Revive, it’s as strong as can be

People of mixed heritage hate this binary thinking.

I thought it was fine and I’m mixed, I don’t think he was saying anything offensive

Many with families here in Japan dread it, especially with the older generation. 

That’s Japan, they are even more sensitive when you talk about the war and they often get very irritated when you start talking about them and their role in that war.

Trump richly deserves all the derision and roasting coming for this as well as a resounding defeat in the coming election.

And the praise as well.

Absurd. It makes about as much sense as Harris questioning whether Trump is actually orange or not.

He’s orange? Looks very Caucasian to me.

Well, Trump spot on as usual.