Former Vice President Kamala Harris took aim at the Trump administration while on a recent leg of her book tour.
Harris, who lost out to Trump by a landslide in the most recent US presidential election, is currently touring her native country to promote 107 Days, a political memoir detailing her failed bid to become the first female to reach the highest seat in the White House.
Harris was suddenly thrust into the race as the Democratic nominee after Joe Biden withdrew, and though the election itself was tipped to be an excruciatingly close affair, ultimately Trump won by a considerable margin.
Given the nature of Trump’s tactics when it comes to waging war on political opponents, it should hardly come as a surprise that Harris’ time in the direct firing line – however brief – left some smarting wounds.
Promotion for her autobiography, for example, includes a confession that losing to Trump was “as painful as the death of her mother”, as well as her claiming she believed the Republican party leader to be a “con man”.
In perhaps her most explosive snipe yet, however, Harris went viral on Monday, October 6, after slamming the Trump administration, labeling them “m***erf***ers”.
While speaking at the Day of Unreasonable Conversation summit in Los Angeles on Monday (October 6), Harris said: “We are living history right now, and you all storytellers are living this. You’re not passive observers, you know that.
“You’re living it, and I would ask you that all the emotions that we are feeling — give those emotions, give that experience to those people that you are writing about and writing for. It gets back to my point about helping people just put a label on it, even if it doesn’t change the circumstance.”
She went on: “Because there is so much about this moment that is trying to make people feel like they’ve lost their minds, when in fact, these m***erf***ers are crazy!”
It’s alleged that the audience then began cheering and clapping, causing Harris to laugh.
“I call this ‘The Freedom Tour,’” she added after the crowd had quieted down.
As for her exact feelings in the aftermath of losing to Trump, the Hollywood Reporter claim Harris couldn’t “articulate anything” after losing the election battle.
“I kept saying over and over again, ‘My God, my God.’ I had never felt that level of pain and grief except when my mother died, and I was grieving for the country. I knew what was going to happen,” she said.
Harris’ appearance at the Day of Unreasonable Conversation summit earlier this week comes after she revealed in her memoir that Trump had made a rather surprising comment to her in private.
The alleged incident occurred after the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life, for which Ryan Wesley Routh was found guilty on September 23. Harris claimed in her memoir that Trump had called her after the September 2024 incident and promised to be ‘nicer’ to her.
“How do I say bad things about you now? I’m going to tone it down. I will. You’re going to see,” Trump said.
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