Donald Trump had been exhibiting unusual discipline in staying out of the way as the Joe Biden campaign ship took on water in the wake of last month’s CNN debate.
Trump, though, one thing is for sure, that dude is always gonna Trump.
As Democrats not related to or employed by the president and his campaign are still trying to get the president to step aside in favor of putting Vice President Kamala Harris atop the presidential ticket, Trump issued a July 4 message on his flailing social-media network taking a dumb and not-even-borderline racist shot at Harris.
“Respects to our potentially new Democrat Challenger, Laffin’ Kamala Harris. She did poorly in the Democrat Nominating process, starting out at Number Two, and ending up defeated and dropping out, even before getting to lowa, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a ‘highly talented’ politician! Just ask her Mentor, the Great Willie Brown of San Francisco,” Trump wrote in the post.
Willie Brown is the former two-term San Francisco mayor who briefly dated Harris and backed her first run for elected office, when she ran for district attorney in San Francisco in 2003.
Brown was also known for his flashy style – British and Italian suits, sports cars, dressy hats, a penchant for being seen on the nightclub circuit.
You can see where Trump is going with the dig at “her Mentor, the Great Willie Brown” – he’s trying to diminish her start in politics as being the function of who she was dating at the time, and he’s picking a racial fight with the image he’s selling of Willie Brown being an uppity Negro.
Politico writer Jonathan Martin hit at the core of how this is bound to backfire for Trump.
“This doubles as one of the best cases *for* Kamala: Trump and allies will galvanize support for her by saying endlessly offensive things re: race and gender. Would be quickest way to unify Dems and have shot at undecideds uneasy w Trump,” Martin wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
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