Vice President Kamala Harris launched into a bizarre explanation about stars and constellations to explain former President Donald Trump‘s actions.
During an interview with Roland Martin released Monday, the commentator asked Harris to react to former Trump’s frequent derision of big cities with large black communities, like Detroit, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
‘I talked with somebody once who said, ”You know, if you just look at where the stars are in the sky, don’t look at ’em as just random things,” she said. ‘If you just look at ’em as points, look at the constellation – what does it show you?”
Harris used the constellation analogy to suggest that Trump’s attacks on those cities were not accidental but a product of racism.
‘You just outlined it Roland, what does it show you?’ she asked. ‘That the cities that he picks on in terms of black population or black mayor or both. C’mon.’
US Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, North Carolina.
Trump last week made a surprising comment during a speech to the Detroit Economic Club suggesting the city is poorly run.
‘The whole country is going to be like, you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands,’ Trump warned the bipartisan group of execs and business leaders.
He also previously called out Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for being a ‘horrible city’ days before the Republican National Convention was hosted there. And Trump frequently attacks the city of Chicago for rampant crime.
Harris’ star-crossed comment drew mockery on social media as the latest ‘word salad’ from the candidate.
‘Kamala attempts discussing stars and constellations, ends up delivering the worst word salad in human history,’ wrote X user Johnny Maga on social media. ‘This is a major party presidential nominee, folks.’
‘It’s like a gambler trying to make back his losses by shouting at a slot machine,’ X user Anthony Galli noted, referring to Harris’ media strategy.
‘Every time I hear Kamala speak, I start to believe a little more that she is actually brain damaged,’ wrote self-proclaimed Independent for Trump David LaBeouf on X.
With only three weeks left until the presidential election, Harris is ramping the number of media interviews, especially with outlets focused on black audiences.
She urged the black community to push back against ‘misinformation’ and ‘lies’ which she said were used by foreign governments to suppress the black vote.
‘Don’t let anybody take you outta the game,’ she said. ‘There’s in intent to make it more difficult there is an intent to suggest to a lot of folks that their vote won’t matter with the intention that people will not vote which is an attempt to silence folks.’
Harris said she would continue campaigning to win the black vote in states like North Carolina.
‘I don’t feel that way, I’m going to go everywhere,’ she said. ‘That’s why I am in rural parts of North Carolina and Georgia and other places where people say, ‘Oh your votes aren’t there. But my people are there.’
Vice President Kamala Harris participates in an interview with Roland Martin
Martin also asked Harris about her intent to use the Department of Justice to prosecute hate crimes.
‘We have actually seen a spike in hate crimes across the board and it does not help when you have somebody who was a former president and running to be president again who is constantly fanning the flames of hate and division in our country,’ she replied. ‘Constantly.’