A little over a month before the American presidential election, anything goes between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. And as usual, the Republican candidate did not take it easy on Saturday during a meeting in Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin). While criticizing the Democratic government’s migration policy, the billionaire cracked a particularly virulent punchline: “Joe Biden has become mentally deficient, Kamala was born that way. She was born like that.”
This outing, which went viral on social networks, provoked laughter and cheers from the public. The former president then estimated that only a person suffering from a mental deficiency could allow such “migratory drift” to occur in the United States, writes the “Washington Post”.
Donald Trump did it again the next day, in Pennsylvania: “Corrupt Joe Biden has become mentally disabled. Sad. But the liar Kamala Harris, honestly, I think she was born that way. There’s something wrong with Kamala. I don’t know what it is, but it’s missing something. And you know it, everyone knows it,” he said.
Donald Trump’s attack on Kamala Harris provoked reactions even in the Republican camp, notes the Huffington Post. Some heavyweights believe that it is better to attack the vice-president’s ideas rather than her personally: “I think the best path to take is to attack her on her ideas which are destroying the country. (…) I’m not saying she’s crazy, I’m saying her ideas are damn crazy,” Senator Lindsey Graham said on CNN.
Larry Hogan, Republican governor of Maryland, completely dissociated himself from the candidate’s comments, deeming them “scandalous and unacceptable”. “I find that it is insulting not only to the vice-president, but also to people who have mental disabilities,” criticized the governor on CBS, who does not intend to support either of the two presidential candidates.
This is not the first time that Donald Trump has made fun of people with disabilities. On several occasions in recent years, he has questioned the intelligence of black women, such as California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and several journalists.
During his first presidential campaign in 2015, the Republican imitated a journalist suffering from a physical disability limiting the functioning of his joints.
Earlier this year, Trump brought up the late Republican Sen. John McCain, who voted against his camp’s initiative to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. “John McCain, for whatever reason, couldn’t raise his arm that day,” said the 70-year-old, who imitated McCain by giving a little thumbs down. Trump’s critics said he was making fun of the former senator’s disability, who was injured while a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
