Former President Trump Faces Backlash for Shocking Offensive and Delusional Remarks

It was a divisive and disrespectful spectacle.”

Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, expressed her displeasure at her own campaign rally. The reason for her displeasure was a “tirade” hurled at her by her opponent in the U.S. presidential race, former President Donald Trump (78).

Harris has suddenly become a black man.”

The remark was made at a July 31 meeting of the Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. The remark was widely covered and a firestorm followed.

Polls show him and Harris neck-and-neck on points. He may have been somewhat impatient with this, but he did not say it unintentionally, but rather calculated that it would become a topic of conversation,” said Kazuhiro Maejima, a professor at Sophia University who specializes in contemporary American politics and diplomacy.

Toshihiro Yamada, an international journalist who was covering the meeting where Trump’s problematic comments were made live, also believes that “Trump’s comments were a campaign ploy.

There was laughter in the audience.” Mr. Harris has long publicly stated that his father is black. However, Mr. Trump lied, saying, ‘Mr. Harris has recently started claiming his black roots because of the election. It’s transparently an attempt to get votes from black voters who don’t feel good about Mr. Harris.”

Needless to say, Trump’s rhetoric is nothing new.

From March 2011 to September 2004, before the Trump administration came to power, he persistently lashed out at then-President Barack Obama (63) in a FOX News interview and at his own rallies, saying that he was born in Kenya and that he was not qualified to be president because he was not born in the U.S. “I’m not a Kenyan,” he said. He persistently shot down the President. These statements were immediately recognized as false, but the anti-Obama faction supported them. This revealed that there are more people in American society who sympathize with Mr. Trump than we had imagined,” said Mr. Maejima.

The racist remarks are also directed at immigrants. Mr. Yamada, mentioned above, said, “Immigrants from El Salvador are not the only ones who have been discriminated against.

Immigrants from El Salvador ‘come from a country like a cesspool,’ and those from Mexico ‘bring crime and drugs’ and ‘pollute the blood of the United States.

In September ’15, in a magazine interview, he said to Carly Fiorina, 69, a female candidate vying for the nomination, “Look at that face!　That’s the face of the next president of the United States?” Fiorina, 69, a female candidate vying for the nomination, was criticized as a looky-loo. He was heavily criticized for his “lookism.

In order to promote his “America First” principle, he has also repeatedly made “delusional statements” citing other countries.

He has said boldly, “If I were president, I would end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine within 24 hours. He also said that the U.S. should stop supporting Ukraine. His remark to Joe Biden (81) during a public debate, ‘You are a Palestinian,’ was also a message that if he has money to give to Palestine, he should give it back to the U.S.” (Foreign Correspondent, national newspaper).

In July of this year, he also made a problematic statement that was hard to believe. The aforementioned Mr. Yamada explained.

In January 2009, Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Congress, resulting in a catastrophe that left five people dead. He told the perpetrators that if they were reelected president, he would grant them amnesty. This is a statement that denies democracy from the bottom up and incites crime, and it could be taken as an incitement to his supporters to do the same thing if he loses this year’s election.

Mr. Maejima is appalled by the campaign’s repeated outbursts of excessive rhetoric.

He will still be able to solidify his own support base, but there is a limit to what he can do. He is not a strong candidate who can become the leader of the entire United States. At the stage where he is competing with Mr. Trump, Mr. Harris is at the same level. The weak candidates are in a close race against each other, and Mr. Trump has been ranting and raving in an attempt to make a difference. You could say that’s where we are right now.”

Will the king of rhetoric be reelected? The American people are faced with a difficult choice.

From the August 23-30, 2024 issue of FRIDAY