Trump thinks mispronouncing Kamala Harris’ name is a good attack route.
Some people are suggesting Harris starts name calling in her campaign. I really think if she wants to slam him in a campaign, just list the issues Trump never wants to talk about. Even some conservative states were fighting for abortion. Stop making these elections a joke and the people will come.
Fight back by compromising less, not name calling.
I hope so too… unfortunately they probably get all their advice from people who ran the last couple complains. Plus, technically super PAC can’t have input from the politician I think.
Am I the only one that thinks Kamala is a beautiful name? It’s also not a name you hear every day.
If she’s elected, I imagine you’ll hear the name a lot in about 20 years.
Well, I understand why he would feel like a small man running against a freaking hindu goddess
Not being an american*, i know nothing about her, but she does have a pretty strong and cool name.
Tfw you don’t get what’s so confusing about pronounciation of कमला. It’s so simple.
I’d say the problem begins with the fact that almost no one in the U.S. reads Sanskrit.
Don’t worry, Kamala is going to fix that. Soon English will be outlawed. (At least that’s what Faux News thinks, right?)
Can someone explain what this statement is supposed to be?
कमल is the word kamala written in Sanskrit.
Alright, I know you’re not OP but is the person implying that Kamala is difficult because it has Sanskrit origins?
No, I’m saying it’s pretty simple. Those are just basic letters.
Compare that to Donald’s name in devanagari script: डोनाल्ड
Edit: And also devanagari (along with most Indian script) is phonetic. What you say is what you write. There’s no confusion about pronunciation of letters no matter which word they’re in.
She should start calling him “Done-Old”
Kamala seems to be going with ‘weird’.
Which is… actually really good. It’s one word that works with Trump, JD Vance, Crypto ros, Elon Musk, and the whole slew of supporters / Trumps base.
Kamala Kamala Kamala Kamala For president She’s got my vote She’s got my voooooote!
I don’t get it. I mean shit, probably I pronounce it wrong, but then so does every other Minnesotan.
Why are they trying to be dumber than they are? That makes it like less weaponized stupidity and more… The stupidity that gets you in detention?
I think she’s gonna wreck the traitor bitch.
She should fire back “It’s Kamala Harris, It seems with your age, you’re struggling to remember, it’s OK. Soon you’ll be able to call me President”
Man, I really didn’t realize how bad people were butchering her name on purpose.
I’ve seen plenty of clarification on the subtleties of “kama-la” (correct) vs. “ka-ma-la” (incorrect) vs. “ka-mala” (incorrect), which helped me get her name right back during the 2020 primaries.
But these racist fucks are pronouncing it like “camel-ah”, “karma-la”, or just saying her name with a weird fake pseudo-african dialect.
They can say Barrack Hussain Obama again while they’re at it. For all the good that ever did for them.
It just proves them to be the racist party if they can’t even say a name right
…I’m on her side and I actually had no idea it was supposed to be pronounced that way. I’ve pretty much only interacted with her name textually; I guess I just don’t keep up with political media enough. I’ve also got an uncommon name that people rarely pronounce correctly the first time but also I’m white so I’ve never had anyone be anything but apologetic about it.
Comma Luh not Kuh Mah Lah
I guess I’ve also been saying it wrong, having read it much more than I’ve heard it. I honestly haven’t been paying much attention.
Her name is a nod to her Indian heritage on her mother’s side and in her 2019 memoir, Harris wrote that she pronounced it “Comma-la” and that it means “lotus flower.” […] Still, Trump continues to say “Kah-MAH-la.”
I was sure this was going to be the other way around. Strange and less bad than I expected. It’s mostly just an accent thing, not a change in sounds.
But, unlike you, Trump has heard it many times. He knows how to pronounce it properly, he just won’t because he’s a racist.
Yeah but trump has a media team and she is the republicans opponent. They would or should know the correct pronunciation.
,la
It’s usually a sign of an insecure individual
I want her to treat this as if he is doing it on accident, and correct him like he is a little child. Really humiliate him.
Yup. Then, when he’s still mispronouncing it, pivot to him not being able to remember how to pronounce it correctly being another sign of his mental faculties failing.
Exactly. “Oh sweetie, are you having trouble remembering?”
We bullied a boomer who kept doing that at work.
Old fart kept mispronouncing staff member’s names thinking it was funny and workplace suddenly went passive aggressive on him.
When asked why, the Trump campaign, in a statement to ABC News, said “race and gender have nothing to do with why Kamala Harris is the most unpopular Vice President in history.”
Citation, motherfuckers?
You kind of need to start assuming that anything coming out of his mouth is a lie. They are right less than 50% of the time.
I’m so fucking confused. Trump usually has good insults that actually stick. But literally nothing is sticking. All of Trump’s insults vs Kamala though are so lame.
I’m pretty happy about this though. Trump workshopping insults and shot gunning his incompetence and inability to actually pull Kamala down is great for everyone.
“Lying Ted Cruz” worked fine. Except “Lying Kamala” is obviously just recycling an old insult and speaks more to Trump’s limited vocabulary rather than something good. Etc. etc. etc. I’m sure Trump will eventually find something and run with it, but… crazy to see him fail at workshopping a response when he’s literally had years to prepare an obvious insult for Kamala.
Making fun of name pronunciation makes it sound like Trump is a 78 year old who can’t learn how to say a name. This is NOT the path Trump wants to go. Kamala isn’t even an exotic or difficult to say name.
I’m honestly surprised he has so little. I mean, not to give that piece of shit ideas, but “Commie Kamala” is right there. Even “Crooked Kamala” would work better than what he’s tried.
I saw a clip of him where he called her “Laffin’ Kamala” and then stopped to specify that he was spelling it L-A-F-F-I-N-apostrophe. It’s hard to remember last time I felt so much cringe.
To be fair, he thought he was spelling it correctly.
As much as everyone was making fun of Bidens loss of function (which… Biden always tripped up over words. He always was a bad speaker)… Trumps wit has visibly declined over the recent years.
It’s possible that Trump just can’t come up with a reasonable insult due to his advanced age. IMO, Trumps signs of aging are worse than even Bidens.
Crooked was Hilary Clintons nickname. So same problem as Lying: it is proof of Trumps small vocabulary if he recycles an insult.
Unfortunately the (lack of) cleverness matters little when his zealots/cultists started wearing adult diapers in public because “real men wear diapers” or something.
We don’t need to target the zealots.
All that matters is changing the mind of the 10% or so independents. And secondly, making sure there is enough enthusiasm for the Democrats to actually come out and fucking vote.
