Donald Trump says he ‘didn’t know’ Kamala Harris was black as his interview with black journalists association gets off to contentious start

Donald Trump’s interview with a black journalists’ association got off to a heated start after he clashed with his first questioner and said he “didn’t know” Vice President Kamala Harris is black.

The drama erupted with the very first question, after the former president was questioned about some of his past comments about black journalists and lawmakers and his dinner with a white supremacist at Mar-a-Lago.

After Trump trashed his opening question during a panel of the National Association of Black Journalists, he confronted Harris, who is of mixed race, questioning her heritage and suggesting that her embrace of black culture was fake.

“I didn’t know she was black,” Trump said. “I don’t know if she’s Indian or black.”

“She was Indian from start to finish and all of a sudden she took a turn and became a black person,” Trump said, a day after Harris attended

Trump immediately went after his first questioner, after she asked him a multi-part question that highlighted some of his offensive comments against African-American journalists and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Scott said many people felt it was inappropriate for him to be in Chicago for the interview. He pointed to comments in which he called a black journalist a “loser,” ridiculed an African-American congressman and alluded to his meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago.

“First of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such an awful way,” Trump told ABC’s Rachel Scott, who asked the first question.

“You don’t even say hello, how are you?” Trump railed, calling ABC a fake news network.

“I came here with a good feeling. I love the black people of this country,” he said.

“I think it’s a very rude introduction. I don’t know exactly why you would do something like that,” he said.

Trump then complained about the faulty equipment for the interview and blamed the NASB for holding him up during an interview that started more than 30 minutes later than scheduled.

“I was told my opponent was going to be here. You invited me under false pretenses. And then you said you couldn’t do it over Zoom,” he said, after the group announced they were negotiating with Harris to do a Zoom interview next month.

“I am the best president for black people since Abraham Lincoln,” Trump said, calling the initial questions “hostile” and a “disgrace.”

Trump kept complaining about the audiovisual equipment, saying the “microphones are in really bad shape.”

In his quotes about Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, Trump said that Harri “was always of Indian descent and she only promoted her Indian descent.’

“I didn’t know she was black until a few years ago, when she happened to become black, and now she wants to be known as black,” Trump said.

“So I don’t know, is she Indian or black? And you know, I respect both, but she clearly doesn’t,” Trump said.

“Because she was completely Indian and then she took a turn and became a black person. I think someone should look into that.”

Nearly 30 minutes into the interview, Trump was still complaining that he was “treated as rudely as this woman treated me.”