Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a “bum” and joked about mispronouncing her name during a speech in Florida on Friday night.
Trump is among several Republicans who have deliberately mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’ name, angering some liberals.
The former president mocked the idea at a Turning Point event in West Palm Beach.
He began talking about the vice president, who he said was “worse than Joe Biden and in a real sense much more liberal” before noting that he had pronounced her name correctly.
“And by the way, there’s many ways to pronounce her name, they explained to me, you can say Kamala, you can say Kamala, I said, don’t worry. It doesn’t matter what I say. I don’t care if I pronounce it wrong,” Trump said.
Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a “bum” and joked about mispronouncing her name during a speech in Florida on Friday night.
Overall, Trump was scathing of Harris and seemed shocked by the sudden turn of liberals in her favor, given her record.
“Three weeks ago, she was a bum, a bum. A failed vice president, in a failed administration, with millions of people crossing the border and she was the border czar.”
He also criticized her for missing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and said she did not like Jews.
“She refused to attend the speech. Because that’s her original thinking, that’s where she comes from. She doesn’t like Jews, she doesn’t like Israel.”
Vice President Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish. Harris met one-on-one with Netanyahu on Friday. Harris is also the stepmother to Emhoff’s two children with his first wife, who are also Jewish.
Harris became the presumptive presidential nominee earlier this week when Joe Biden announced he would no longer seek a second term.
The correct pronunciation of Harris’ name has been the subject of much debate since she was named Joe Biden’s running mate in 2020.
Instead of the correct “KA’-ma-la,” Trump sometimes says “Ka-MAH-la.”
The discourse around Harris’ name is well documented, with the Washington Post writing a story about all the people who got it wrong at the RNC last week.
Overall, Trump was scathing of Harris and seemed shocked by the sudden turn of liberals in her favor, given her record.
Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, is the first woman to serve as vice president and the third non-white person to serve as president or vice president, after Obama and Charles Curtis, Herbert Hoover’s vice president, who had Native American ancestry.
The discourse around Harris’ name is well documented, with the Washington Post writing a story about all the people who got it wrong at the RNC last week.
They joined the likes of Tucker Carlson, who lost his cool after being challenged on his pronunciation in 2020.
Trump has also historically mispronounced the name or pretended to pronounce it excessively, in an apparently mocking manner.
Critics say the mispronunciation is a deliberate tactic to draw attention to Harris’ heritage as a black and Indian woman.
Harris herself addressed the situation, posting a video in 2016 in which she used children to help educate people.
“People pronounce my name different ways. Let #KidsForKamala show you how,” she said.
And in his 2019 memoir, Harris wrote: “My name is pronounced ‘comma-la,’ like the punctuation mark. It means ‘lotus flower,’ which is an important symbol in Indian culture.”
However, even Biden has struggled before, blacking out his vice president’s name during a 2019 speech honoring the Golden State Warriors for their NBA championship win.
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