Kamala Harris: ‘Thank you Kamala’: Trump shares Harris ‘Indian heritage’ photo amid row

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Former US president Donald Trump Wednesday said vice president Kamala Harris has been ‘turning Black’ and he did not know a few years ago that Kamala Harris was Black. Speaking at a Black journalists’ convention in Chicago, Trump wondered whether Kamala Harris is an Indian or Black — which invited massive backlash including from the White House which termed Trump’s comments as ‘repulsive, insulting’.
Democrats took the MAGA supporters to the cleaners wondering how Trump failed to understand that Kamala Harris is both Indian and Black.
As the controversy raged on, Trump posted an old family photo of Kamala Harris draped in a saree
“Thank you Kamala for the nice picture you sent from many years ago! Your warmth, friendship, and love of your Indian Heritage are very much appreciated.” Trump wrote.

What Donald Trump said on Kamala Harris being ‘Black or Indian’
Donald Trump said he knew Kamala Harris for a long time indirectly. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, 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 said at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention.
“I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went – she became a Black person,” Trump said.
Kamala Harris’ old photo in saree
Kamala Harris’ mother Shyamala Gopalan was born in Chennai and moved to the US at the age of 19. Kamala Harris visited Chennai with her mother when she was a child. In 2019, when Shyamala died, Kamala Harris carried her mother’s ashes to the city and scatters them in the seas. The photo that Trump shared went viral a few days ago as social media users in India wondered whether Kamala Harris will be wearing a saree at the inauguration if she wins. In the photo, she is wearing a saree,





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