Kamala Harris’ ex Montel Williams slams Trump campaign for sharing photo of him on couch in nod to JD Vance meltdown

Talk show host Montel Williams criticized Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in his latest online outing after his romance with Kamala Harris resurfaced.

“A very strange tweet from an even stranger guest. Good morning everyone!” wrote Williams, who briefly dated the vice president and now presumptive Democratic nominee two decades ago.

He was responding to a message on X from Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, who posted the image online with the tagline: “Montel Williams and his bank.”

The news came after the AP conducted a fact check on a false claim that Trump’s running mate JD Vance’s book contains a passage about having sex with a bank (it contains no such passage). The tweet about Williams had no further explanation.

Williams has been busy online since Harris suddenly emerged as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee after President Joe Biden announced he would step back and endorse her.

Last Sunday, he drew attention when he appeared to briefly shun his former flame with glowing comments about Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, shortly after Biden announced he would step down to keep the White House.

“I’ve watched @GovWesMoore lead my home state of Maryland, and I know leadership when I see it,” Williams wrote on X.

“I would love to have Wes Moore at the top of my ballot, or somewhere else, and I am ready to campaign.”

This happened at about the same time that conservative X users… resurrected photos of him and Harris at celebrity events twenty years ago, when they were still dating.

He then posted an explanation online after his advocacy for Moore, a telegenic politician who had been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, drew online commentary.

“Is anyone surprised that I’m interested in a politician who also went to the Naval Academy and whose leadership impressed me?” he wrote. As Democrats rallied around Harris, he made it clear he was ready to back the ultimate nominee.

Montel Williams and Kamala Harris attended the eighth annual Race To Erase Multiple Sclerosis Benefit at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, California on May 18, 2001. Williams has responded after photos of them dating surfaced online.

He retweeted Moore’s own post supporting Harris and underlined it online. “Just to remind people I retweeted this,” he posted last Monday.

Williams went after Trump in a follow-up tweet on Monday, again complaining about the bank photo.

Last week, Williams went after Vance in a later deleted post. He posted a video in which Vance commented on “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they’ve made, so they want to make the rest of the country unhappy too.” The post came after Vance criticized Harris for, among other things, having childless stepchildren who make policy.

“When people tell you who they are, believe them,” he wrote in the deleted post, which included a link to a video shared by the Kamala HQ page.

“It’s really weird that a spokesperson for a major presidential candidate would go to my social media and grab a copyrighted photo of me sitting on a couch, exuding calm, love of life, and passion for respecting the man I am today. I would think an official campaign spokesperson would have more important things to do, but weirdos usually don’t,” he wrote.

His “weird” attack also reflected a new approach from Harris’ campaign, which used the adjective to characterize Trump himself.