Trump wants to define what it means to be truly American. His Kamala nickname exemplifies that.

[Zorro]

We knew President Trump would come up with a nickname for Kamala D. Harris as soon as Joe Biden named the California senator as his running mate.

“Phony Kamala” is what the president seems to have settled on. Perhaps it’s some kind of triple entendre, meant to poke at superficial California stereotypes, question her fidelity to law and order as a former prosecutor and kick up some dust by imposing a purity test for a multiracial candidate who has injected the Biden campaign with enthusiasm among Black voters.

It is another example of how the president has tried to appoint himself as the gatekeeper in chief with his divisive and narrow attempt to define what is truly American. We’ve seen it before in his travel bans, his hiring, his language — and now in his effort to define the newly minted Democratic ticket. Unable to put a dent in Biden’s lead in the polls, Trump and his Republican operatives are now trying to tarnish Harris with charges that she is too extreme, too liberal, too leftist and — in a twist — not quite black enough.

Former George W. Bush aide Ari Fleischer claimed Harris “is just not that historically exciting to African Americans.” Republican booster Nick Adams took to Twitter to question whether Harris herself could be considered African American since her mother is Indian and her father is Jamaican. Republicans have shifted from trying to determine who is authentically American to determining who is authentically Black.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/13/phony-kamala-is-just-another-predictable-trump-slur/

[SheltieLover]

1. What a shame she won't get to debate him!

[LakeArenal]

2. He does define what is truly American.

And it ain’t him.

The population is so hip to his lies.
Like the boy who cries wolf.

Every woman can’t be nasty.

[safeinOhio]

3. How nasty can he be?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. As long as we're looking at color swatches and the GOPers are claiming

Harris isn't black enough and is therefore phony, what should be said about someone who's too orange and whose orangeness derives from stage makeup? Phony-orange-colored pot is calling the kettle not black enough?

[CaptYossarian]

5. You're only a real American if you ask Russia to fix the 2016 election and

you ask a dozen countries to dig up dirt on your 2020 opponent (because you know you can't win fairly).

He pretends to be a tough, assured "strong man", but is a scared paper tiger of a wimp. He knows he's not a billionaire, isn't popular enough to win a one-person race, and his mushroom is as soft as his ample waist.

For the past couple of weeks, a phrase in Neil Young's song "American Dream" keeps popping up in my head: "Yer all washed up!"

[RussBLib]

6. "Phony" eh?

Confession or projection?