On Wednesday, “The Daily Show”’s Ronny Chieng dissected Donald Trump’s racist remarks on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists conference in Chicago, the place Trump, amongst different issues, questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ race and in contrast himself to former President Abraham Lincoln.
“Trump was like, ‘Listen up, Black people. You’re always late, your microphones are ghetto, and I’m Abraham Lincoln,’” Chieng joked, adding, “For most politicians on earth, that would have been a low point of the interview. But because it’s Donald Trump, it somehow got worse.”
Chieng then performed a clip of Trump trying to get granular with regards to racial id, together with this alternate:
Trump: Now she needs to be often called Black. So I don’t know. Is she Indian, or is she Black?
Scott: She has at all times recognized herself as a Black girl and went to a traditionally Black faculty.
Trump: I respect both one, however she clearly doesn’t. As a result of she was Indian all the way in which after which unexpectedly she made a flip and he or she went—she grew to become a Black particular person.
Scott: Simply to be clear, sir, do you consider that she is—
Trump: I believe any person ought to look into that too, if you ask, proceed in a really hostile, nasty tone.
“I do not know what’s worse: that he thinks she turned from Indian to Black, or that he thinks somebody ought to look into that, proper?” Chieng stated. “Who should look into that? Does he think the FBI is the Federal Black Investigators?”
“I don’t think she turned from Indian to black, okay?” he continued. “She’s Indian and Black. Like, what does he think happens? ‘When the time is right, Indians go into a cocoon and they play some Drake and they come out Black.’”
None of this must be a shock, after all. Earlier this week, the comic Jon Stewart, who usually hosts “The Daily Show” on Mondays, identified that the right-wing equipment has one transfer with regards to Harris: being tremendous racist.
