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€

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    3 months ago

    Heā€™s starting a rhetoric. He gaslights and soon thereā€™ll be a bunch of Americans caught up in her origins and misleading representation of race. And youā€™ll wonder, ā€œHow the fuck did that actually stick?ā€

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      3 months ago

      Will there? Maybe the racist ones who would never be voting for her anyway. Good, let them waste their time with it.

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      3 months ago

      Yep, itā€™s just the new talking point from their supreme leader. It was ā€œSleepy Bidenā€ before, now itā€™s ā€œopportunistic race swapping Harrisā€ (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.

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        3 months ago

        I had a realisation. Might be true; probably isnā€™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 didnā€™t comprehend it appropriately.