Trump said at his Montana rally this week:
Kamala Harris, you know it’s interesting nobody really knows her last name1
It is a weird statement. It takes me back to something Donald Trump said back in 2011:
He may have [a birth certificate], but there’s something on that, maybe religion. Maybe it says he is a Muslim. I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that.2
Trump may be trying to lead someone to imagine something bad about Harris through innuendo.
It also takes me back to Donald Trump confusing Kamala Harris with Nikki Haley, another woman of Indian descent whose little known birth surname was Randhawa. Perhaps Trump is confusing Harris with Haley, or just assuming that since one has a little-known birth name that the other does too.
In truth, Kamala Harris was born Kamala Harris.3 Births in California are open records. Anybody can verify this.
In context, Trump made it clear that he knew her last name, Harris, but was making the weird suggestion that no one else does. Is this part of his stable genius level IQ? Why would he make something like that up?
- https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kamala-harris-montana-rally-b2594427.html ↩︎
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110401201831/https://nation.foxnews.com/donald-trump/2011/03/30/trump-obama-maybe-hes-muslim ↩︎
- Apparently there was a mistake in the middle name. It was later corrected through an amendment to the birth registration. ↩︎