Former President Trump, in a series of posts on his Truth Social site, repeatedly insulted Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he called “Comrade Kamala,” as she spoke Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where she formally accepted her party’s nomination for president.
Trump presented the live commentary as a live analysis of what he called “his over-the-top article.”
“Too many thank yous, said too quickly. What’s wrong with him?” he asked as Harris began her remarks.
He asked where Hunter Biden was. He said Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a former high school football coach, “was an assistant coach, not a COACH.”
And, just after Harris praised her late mother for teaching her and her sister to “never do anything halfway,” Trump posted: “Kamala's biography will not lower prices at the grocery store or the gas pump!”
Harris criticized Trump's behavior during the deadly insurrection on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.
“In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man,” Harris said. “But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious. You have to consider not only the chaos and calamity that occurred when he was in office, but also the gravity of what has happened since he lost the last election.”
Trump posted: “Chaos and calamity are allowing our Country to be infiltrated by millions of criminals!”
Harris went on to say that she “sent an armed mob to the U.S. Capitol, where they stormed a police office.”
“PEACEFULLY AND PATRIOTICLY!” he wrote.
He continued: “When politicians from his own party asked him to stop the mob and send help, he did the opposite. He fanned the flames.”
He replied, “ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ME?”
A few minutes later, he suggested Harris “drop the speech right now, go to Washington, D.C., close the border, allow fracking in Pennsylvania and other places, and start doing the things she complains aren’t getting done.”
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After Harris finished her nearly 40-minute speech, Trump, who frequently praises North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, tweeted: “There will be no future with Comrade Kamala Harris, because she will lead us into a Nuclear World War III. The tyrants of the world will never respect her!”
Earlier in the day, Trump spoke at a news conference near the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County, Arizona, where he began his remarks by saying that Democrats illegally pushed President Biden out of the race to replace him with Harris — a false claim he has been repeating frequently this week.
“It’s a very sad time for this country in many ways. We had a candidate, he was not a supporter of Joe Biden, but the way he was overthrown was a coup,” he said.
He then praised the border wall behind him as the “Rolls-Royce of walls,” said undocumented immigrants were taking jobs from black and Latino people and, as he often does, lashed out at the media for its coverage of border policy.
At one point, he suggested that reporters present walk toward an opening in the border wall, “if they have the courage to do so.”
“We are going to end up without a country,” he said of the situation at the border. “They are not going to have media. They don’t have media. They have their own media. They don’t need media.”
“They,” presumably, referred to undocumented immigrants crossing the southern border. While press freedom varies widely by country, immigrants generally have access to media in their home countries.
