Ronny Chieng took to The Every day Present to name out Donald Trump for the “bizarre flip” his marketing campaign has taken to speaking about Kamala Harris’s racial identification.
Vice President Harris is of Indian and Jamaican descent, which has confused many Trump supporters, together with the previous U.S. president.
Throughout an look on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists conference this week, Trump drew backlash for questioning Harris’s racial identification.
“She was Indian all the way in which, after which impulsively, she made a flip, and she or he turned a Black particular person,” Trump mentioned.
Trump went additional and took to Reality Social to share a video from 2020 that featured The Workplace alum Mindy Kaling cooking Masala dosa with Harris. Within the video, Kaling referred to as the VP “Loopy Kamala” and a “stone-cold phony.” Kaling tells Harris, “We’re each South Indian.” Harris then replies, “Sure, you appear to be your entire one-half of my household.”
“Rattling, I forgot how bizarre The Workplace received after Michael Scott left,” Chieng joked.
Chieng went on to slam Trump, saying, “How did he even discover this? Was he doing a deep oppo analysis on Mindy Kaling’s Instagram web page? How far down the Mindy rabbit gap did he go? Is he going to come back out subsequent week like, ‘Kamala Harris will not be Black, and Mindy and B.J. Novak belong collectively, OK? Do the suitable factor B.J. Make an sincere Indian out of her.’”
The Every day Present host commented that the video “doesn’t even show his level,” including, “He’s saying Kamala identifies as Indian and never Black. And it is a video of her saying, ‘I’m half Indian.’ What does Trump assume the opposite half is? Girl? How does this man not perceive what half means?”
“He continually tells us he’s a genius, however he can’t comprehend a golden doodle?” Chieng continued earlier than joking, “Additionally, Trump doesn’t get to resolve how Black a Black particular person is. Solely Kendrick Lamar can try this, OK?”
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