Donald Trump’s campaign is desperately trying to clean up his latest mess after he bombed Wednesday while speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday.
In a racist tirade, Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of playing cynical games with her heritage.
“She was Indian all the way,” he said, “then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went—she became a Black person.”
The campaign knew it was a disaster before it was even over. What was supposed to be an hour-long question-and-answer session was abruptly cut short by Trump’s campaign after just 34 minutes—“an indication of how much of a train wreck it was for him,” tweeted Axios reporter Sophia Cai, “and also how good the questioning was.”
Jesus FUCK, this was a catastrophe even by HIS limited standards. Apparently there was a lot of anger at the NABJ inviting him at all, and I totally understand why, and I’ve seen some suggestions that they hardly covered themselves in glory… but GODDAMN they didn’t cover themselves in shit like Dampnut did. All they did was ask him questions that should’ve been asked ages ago…
I mean…FUCKING LOOK, if you can stomach it (I could only manage five or six minutes even of this cutdown). The delay problem wasn’t their equipment, by the way, it was him and his team harrumphing over the NABJ panel wanting to fact-check him in real time, cos you know, fact-checking him at all is the height of rudeness. This is the sort of thing that, had it been anyone else, would’ve ended their career. And, you know, Dampnut has the cult behind him, so, though his campaign team may be rightly aghast (the whole thing ends hilariously with one of the journalists noting that the Trump team is giving them the order to wind it up, and she very specifically names them rather than just making a vague statement about being out of time or something) they probably can’t do much about him… but I suspect even he might suffer some harm from this. I look forward to it happening.
