Former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the upcoming presidential election, recently shared a provocative post that compared Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, to his former political opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The post, shared on Wednesday during a flurry of activity on his social media platform Truth Social, included a screenshot from a post on X, featuring an old, blurry image of both female Democrats.
The caption read, “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently,” likely referencing Harris’s past relationship with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown from the 1980s. In a 2019 op-ed in the ‘San Francisco Chronicle’, Brown acknowledged that their relationship might have benefited her career but denied receiving any political favors in return.
This isn’t the first instance of Trump reposting inappropriate content about Harris. Earlier this month, he shared a video parody of Alanis Morissette’s 90s hit “Ironic,” with sexualized lyrics targeting Harris.
Trump’s recent outburst on Truth Social also included numerous reposts of favorable media coverage, including segments from Fox News and several memes created by his supporters.
Among these were AI-generated images depicting Harris, Clinton, Barack Obama, and other prominent Democrats in prison, calls for special counsel Jack Smith to be prosecuted for pursuing criminal cases against Trump, and even a post suggesting a “public military tribunal” for Obama over unspecified allegations, and some posts containing references to the QAnon conspiracy theory.
This surge of posts coincided with a challenging news cycle for Trump, during which he was accused of showing disrespect at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Trump, who was at the site to mark the anniversary of the 2021 attack in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed 13 American service members, was criticized after being photographed smiling and giving a thumbs-up near a fallen soldier’s grave.
Additionally, two of his staff members were reported to have been involved in a verbal and physical altercation with a cemetery official who reminded them of filming restrictions in a particular section.
The Trump campaign denied any physical confrontation, although the cemetery confirmed an incident had occurred and a report was filed.
