“If you ask people, do you know what her last name is, nobody has any idea what it is,” continued the former president.“Harris. It’s like Harris.”
“I don’t know, how the hell did this happen?” he added, as he then switched to talk about Joe Biden exiting the presidential race.
Donald Trump has already distorted Kamala’s first name making it Kamabla and at the Friday rally, he said he couldn’t care less about the right pronunciation of her name and whichever he uses, the media will call it wrong, Trump said.
This comment on Kamala Harris’ last name came after he doubted his ethnicity at a convention of Black Journalists and wondered whether Kamala Harris was Black or Indian. He said he did not know Kamala Harris was Black until she ‘turned’ into one as she used to emphasize her Indian roots. The comment drew flak and was fact-checked as Kamala Harris always identified her roots as both Black and Indian — Black from his African father Donald J Harris’ side and Indian from her mother Shyamala Gopalan’s side.
As Trump’s video on Kamala Harris’ last name went viral, a user wrote: I don’t understand what this is supposed to mean.
“He knew her last name when he wrote her a check for one of her previous campaigns,” another wrote.
“Is this some sort of racist dog whistle?” a third user wrote.
Source : Times of India
