The ex-president moving to Florida and his golf course thereSource: Joe Raedle / Getty
Do you know what the core difference is between the way Kamala Harris attacks Donald Trump and the way Trump attacks Harris? Substance. Facts.
When Harris goes at Trump, she targets specific policies he either supported or signed into law as president.
Trump makes things up. He lies. And he seems to spend more time making up ridiculous, inappropriate, schoolyard bully names than ever developing a plan to help anyone except himself.
Remember Trump’s broad and factless claim that Harris and President Joe Biden are destroying America by allowing a free-for-all at the southern border (Trump stopped GOP support for the bi-partisan Biden-Harris border bill as a campaign tactic.)?
Remember all the times he took credit for the economy Obama handed to him–or took credit for the emergency financial support he opposed during the pandemic–and that Nancy Pelosi ensured?
He’s said that Harris and Biden have debilitated police officers, are responsible for “killing Black and Hispanic heritage,” sent hurricane relief funds to “illegal” immigrants, caused a rise in crime that doesn’t exist, allowed non-citizens to vote (which doesn’t happen), and, of course, rigged elections (nope).
Trump’s cowardice, childishness and racism
When Harris attacks Trump’s character, she does so based on his actual, observable characteristics. She calls him childish because he is. She calls him a coward because he spent the bulk of their time campaigning against each other ducking debates and opportunities to contrast his ideas with hers in person. She calls him racist because, bro, he is racist AF!
On the other hand, when Trump lobs personal attacks at Harris, it’s all schoolyard-style name-calling with more than a tinge of racism. He calls her “dumb.” He calls her “stupid.” He calls her “lyin’ Kamala.” He calls her “mentally impaired.” He calls her “big poopy face diaper head.” (OK, he never called her that last thing, but, admit it, that quote was less shocking to see than it should have been.)
Now, during a Tuesday event in Miami aimed at attracting Latino voters, Trump called Harris “lazy,” which many media outlets and folks on social media have characterized as a play on an anti-Black racial stereotype — because that’s exactly what it was.
From the Washington Post:
“I was going to hit her really hard on the trail today, but now I don’t have to, because she’s off,” Trump said of Harris, who is spending the day in Washington between campaign travel on the other days of the week. “You know why? She’s lazy as hell, and she’s got that reputation.”
Harris recorded multiple media interviews on Tuesday, according to her public schedule, after campaigning in three battleground states on Monday.
Trump’s coded language tries to undermine Harris’s qualifications based on her race and gender, said Rachel Noerdlinger, a Democratic communications strategist and senior adviser to Win With Black Women.
“Trump is reviving the old trope that Black women are unqualified for jobs historically held by White men,” she said. “Not having a campaign event while you’re in the middle of also governing isn’t ‘lazy’ — making almost 300 trips to the golf course as president is.”
The ex-president at his golf course in Bedminster, NJ Source: Jared C. Tilton/LIV / Getty
When the Oval Office was a golf cart
Donald Trump spends so much time on his golf courses that, according to the Post, he literally held the campaign event where he called Harris “lazy” AT HIS GOLF RESORT. A major theme throughout his presidency was that he seemed to confuse his chair in the Oval Office for the front seat of his golf cart. Hell, Trump is so lazy that he recently cut a town hall short and started swaying off-beat to music in silence for nearly 40 minutes.
As Ms. Ida B. Wells-Barnett would say:
I mean, Trump is calling Harris lazy, using this as evidence: after more than two unbroken weeks of working, she took a single day off. Meanwhile, he significantly reduced campaigning over the summer and had just begun scheduling consistent events this month. The hypocrisy would be astounding if it weren’t so typical of him.
Look: Harris has been a district attorney, an attorney general, a U.S. senator, the vice president of the United. States, and she is now neck-and-neck with Trump in a presidential race that wasn’t supposed to be tight for him. You don’t get where she is by being lazy, and the only people who think “she’s got that reputation” are racist, misogynistic, and woefully insecure white people who resent the success of Black women but would never put their resumes up against hers.
However, when it comes to anti-Black bigotry, Donald Trump has certainly “got that reputation,” documented for the world to see, of being a dog-whistling racist. That reputation includes an allegation that he once told a colleague that “laziness is a trait in Blacks.” (Sound familiar?)
During the speech, Trump also called Harris “slow,” a “low-IQ person,” “the worst,” and a “radical left lunatic.”
Again, no substance, just personal insults, thinly veiled racism, and a whole lot of projection.
Sad!
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