The White House has responded to Trump’s attack on Vice President Kamala Harris’s race during his appearance at the NABJ Conference in Chicago.
After stating Vice President Harris “happened to turn Black,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Trump’s remarks “repulsive.”
“As a person of color – as a Black woman, who is in this position that is standing before you at this podium, behind this lectern, what he just said – what you just read out to me– is repulsive, it’s insulting, and, you know, no one has any right to tell someone who they are, how they identify,” Jean-Pierre said according to CNN. “That is no one’s right. It is someone’s own decision.
““Only she can speak to her experience – only she can speak to what it’s like. She’s the only person that can do that, and I think it’s insulting for anybody – it doesn’t matter if it’s a former leader, a former president – it is insulting.”
When asked about Trump’s comments at the NABJ convention about Kamala Harris “becoming Black” during today’s White House press briefing White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre laughed and said, “It’s insulting.” pic.twitter.com/izjAlhkf8B
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 31, 2024
Former President Donald Trump’s appearance at the NABJ Conference in Chicago did not go well. The appearance, plagued by controversy over its being allowed to happen, went off the rails immediately. One of the moments that will echo in the forthcoming days was Trump questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity.
When addressing the statements of Republican leaders calling VP Harris a DEI hire, Trump stated he “didn’t know she was Black.”
“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said.
“I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went and became a Black person,” he added. “I think somebody should look into that, too.”
“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black.”
— Donald Trump, when asked at the NABJ convention whether he thinks Kamala Harris is on the Democratic ticket only because she is a Black woman. pic.twitter.com/EP27jmE6rw
— The Recount (@therecount) July 31, 2024
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