Donald Trump says racist things, behaves rudely, struggles to understand what’s going on, during National Association of Black Journalists appearance

| 2:34 pm EDT July 31, 2024
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The National Association of Black Journalists has stirred up controversy by allowing Donald Trump to appear on stage for an interview. Things got even more controversial when Trump reportedly refused to go on stage for an hour because he didn’t want there to be live fact checking. But now Trump is indeed on stage, and it’s not going well for him. At all.

At one point Trump, who was clearly struggling to understand what was going on, claimed he couldn’t hear what one of the panelists was saying. Trump then said “This woman was unable to get the right equipment.”

At another point Trump spewed this racist drivel about Kamala Harris: “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago but when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”

Trump also responded to a question about inflation by whining about how Kamala Harris has replaced Joe Biden on the ticket. At another point Trump began ranting incoherently about the criminal cases against him and talking about “George Slopadopoulos.” The panelists began trying to steer Trump back to the topic at hand, but Trump rudely said “Excuse me, you’re the one that held me up for 35 minutes.”

This interview is nothing short of a train wreck. Trump is coming off as racist, clueless, and senile.