After going after her racial identity, Trump has now taken to deliberately misspelling her name.
  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    0·
    10 months ago

    For someone whose forte is supposed to be nicknames Kamabla is remarkably weak and sad. Don’t know if it’s because Kamala is hard to find an angle on or if Trump is getting too old and slow, but one thing is for certain: Meatball Ron this ain’t.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      It’s quite possibly one of the weakest nicknames in the history of the US… certainly in my lifetime… Not that I’m old… Not like Sleepy Joe Biden… There’s a good one… Nickname that is. Not a good President… horrible president. Kamala… she’s a bit younger than me…60s vs 70s (she says shes 59 but I’ve yet to see her birth certificate and im sorry… I’ve seen a lot of beautiful 59 year old women and Kamala looks so much older … I’m sorry that’s the truth). But yah whoever came up with this nickname should be fired. Oh that was me? And you think right now is the best time to point that out? Hey… Everyone…look at this RINO over here!

  • Ilandar@aussie.zone
    0·
    10 months ago

    Is his brain deteriorating before our eyes? The Kamala names are getting worse every time and this one is completely abysmal. The next one might just be a string of random letters.

  • FloatingAlong@lemmy.world
    0·
    10 months ago

    I literally don’t understand what he’s going for with Kamabla. Like, literally, what the fuck does it mean or imply? What am I missing?

    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      If I thought he or his supporters had enough world knowledge to associate the concept of Shambala from Hinduism to Indians to Kamala then maybe I’d go with him trying to say being Indian is worse than being black which he argues she isn’t

      Instead I think it’s more likely he just is incapable of saying her name without stumbling all over himself, so he’s decided if he can’t say her name it’s because she’s foreign and that’s bad

      • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

        Maybe he could keep saying it and gradually drawl her name until it sounds like “Gambler” and then make some enigmatic comments about knowing when to fold them and walk away. … yeah I’ve got nothing, not seeing the method to his madness this time.

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
    0·
    10 months ago

    Old man is running through nicknames so fast and none are sticking.

    He’s a few names away from calling her the N word or C word.

    • then_three_more@lemmy.world
      0·
      10 months ago

      Or the P word. Or is that racial slur not such a thing in the states as it is in the UK for someone of south Asian descent?

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            10 months ago

            What, like a shortened version of “Pakistani?” I guess maybe that could be a thing in the States, but I’ve literally never heard it.

            I could see how it could piss off an Indian-American, though (just as I could see how being called “Indian” could piss off a Pakistani-American).

              • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
                0·
                10 months ago

                Afaik it’s definitely a slur here in the US, but most people have never met a Pakistani person and thus don’t know to be racist against them.

                • candybrie@lemmy.world
                  0·
                  10 months ago

                  They may have met Pakistani people but aren’t going to pay enough attention to know that. They’ll just go with some generic Muslim slur (it does not matter if they aren’t Muslim).

              • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                0·
                10 months ago

                Its a bit of a linguistic curiosity, because while it’s highly offensive in the UK, here in Boston, it’s a local/colloquial name for “liquor store” (literally, “packie” = “package store” as in “package of booze”). The more noticeable the townie accent, the more likely you’ll hear that term.

                • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
                  0·
                  10 months ago

                  I have actually had British friends look at me like I had 2 heads when I asked what kind of beer they wanted at the packie

      • teamevil@lemmy.world
        0·
        10 months ago

        I don’t even know that one and as an American I thought we were caught up on all of the horrible things to say about other people.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    0·
    10 months ago

    “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.” - Donald Trump

    Yep. Sure sounds like an insult a first grader would come up with.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    0·
    10 months ago

    “People vote with their STOMACH, and food is now at an all time high because of Kamabla/Biden INCOMPETENCE,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday. “With them in charge, IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE!”

    What appeared to be a typo was confirmed as an intentional misspelling of Harris’ first name in a follow-up post an hour later.

    “Kamabla has stated, over and over again, that she wants to DEFUND THE POLICE AND, WITHOUT QUESTION, BAN FRACKING,” Trump wrote. “‘NO MORE FOSSIL FUEL.’ This will quadruple the cost of energy in America! DEPRESSION ANYONE!”

    Sad. Like watching a banana overripen to the point where you can’t even make banana bread with it.