Insult comic
Donald Trump broadsided Kamala Harris in a string of derisive social media posts on Saturday, focusing his attacks on the vice president’s intellect after a week that saw her both out-fundraise him and surpass him in some battleground state polls.
In a succession of Truth Social posts after calling off his planned ABC debate with Harris, Trump called Harris “low IQ,” “dumb,” and said she lacked the “mental capacity” to debate him.
Hm. I don’t know either of them personally, but just going by what I’ve seen of the two, I would not give him the job of evaluating her intelligence.
The former president’s remarks indicated a sustained ratcheting up of the rhetoric against Harris that many in his own party have cautioned against, fearful of detracting from what they view as more favorable lines of attack on immigration and inflation. Even as he accused Harris of enabling “corrupt and open borders” and a “terrible economy,” Trump overshadowed those critiques with personal insults, reminiscent of the rhetoric he used against Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
Reminiscent of everything, really. Crude insults are core Trump.
Harris fired back on social media on Saturday, accusing Trump of backtracking on a pledge to debate “any time, any place” and suggesting that she’d attend the previously agreed upon ABC debate whether Trump does or not.
Trump then issued an ultimatum, saying he’d either debate Harris on Fox News or not at all — while lobbing a number of insults against her intelligence and accusing her of lacking the “REAL capacity” to face him one-on-one.
“Does anyone notice that Kamala Harris doesn’t do Interviews? That’s because she’s really DUMB! She’s unable to speak properly without a Teleprompter,” Trump, who also routinely employs a teleprompter at his rallies, posted on Truth Social, comparing her speaking abilities to those of President Joe Biden and attaching a clipped video of the two welcoming prisoners freed from Russia back to American soil.
I wonder what Trump means by “speak properly.” He certainly doesn’t know how to do it himself. He knows how to keep going – how to keep saying words – but there’s no propriety in evidence at all.
Trump’s campaign is showing no signs of pulling back. In a statement, Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesperson, echoed the former president’s insults, saying, “It’s be a disaster to have a dumb and low IQ individual like Kamala Harris as President of the United States. She has shown her ineptness by allowing crime to run rampant, failing as Border Czar, and being the most liberal candidate ever to run for President. The stakes are too great to let a dummy play pretend President.”
Jeezus. Send these people a truckload of mirrors.
‘Low IQ’ seems to be one of his favorite insults, in spite of casting himself as the candidate who is not a member of the elite.
My husband thought the party would pull him back, not allow him to insult a woman of color the way he did Clinton. I don’t think they can pull him back. He’s too self-absorbed and too lazy a thinker to restrain himself whenever he wants to say something.
Heh. He doesn’t have the IQ to notice the contradictions in posing as non-elite person who mocks “low IQ” people.
Low IQ is a particular favourite of his when talking about people of colour.
Key point.
The idea of Donald Fucking Moron Sharpie Trump accusing anyone of being stupid is hilarious. He’s the anti-Socrates. Socrates claimed he knew nothing; Trump claims to know everything about everything.
Dumb, low IQ people don’t accomplish Juris Doctor degrees and get admitted to the California State Bar. I highly doubt Trump knows who he’s up against. That’s fine, let him underestimate her all he wants.
I don’t think for a moment he underestimates her. He’s running scared. That’s why he’s turned the bluster up to 11 and that’s why nobody can pull him back. At this stage it’s all pure id.
Trump identifies as smart.
I can’t think of a better way to demonstrate this supposed stupidity than a public debate. In fact you’d think the single best move here, given the stakes involved, would be to go all-in on the debate. Think of the demoralising effect on the Harris campaign if she was proven to be stupid so soon after her campaign began!
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Hm. I think Trump might be telling porky-pies.
‘ Send these people a truckload of mirrors.’ — but I fear they all have truckloads already, distorting mirrors, and the Looking Glass world is one in which they may fondly admire themselves.