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

    Not dumb, in the sense that he knows 70% of his base doesnā€™t give two shits about anything, and 10% want to see vulgar stuff because itā€™s entertaining.

    This is the guy who has mocked developmentally disabled people on national TV more than once, prior to winning the 2016 election, and Iā€™m basing his reasoning after that. His fanbase is beholden to his callous asshattery

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      3 months ago

      No, heā€™s legitimately dumb. He knows how to play a crowd, and covers it up a bit by rambling unlike Biden, but heā€™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 hasnā€™t been accurate since the 80s.

      If you watch his CPAC speeches and stuff, itā€™s almost like thereā€™s a conspiracy of silence around showing how bad it is. You just get wacky stories that arenā€™t too believable from dem-alligned media, and ā€œeverythingā€™s fine, the 79 year old is the most stable genius everā€ 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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        3 months ago

        Heā€™s dumb, but about as dumb as a rat that figured out how to reach the cheese in the maze. Heā€™s kind of bumbling around and took an unintentionally Socratic approach towards reaching what he wanted. Thereā€™s some rationality to all of it

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        3 months ago

        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.