Vice President Kamala Harris is “completely getting under Donald Trump’s skin,” says his estranged niece Mary Trump.
“Americans have known for some time that my uncle has the thinnest skin in the world. We now know that Vice President Kamala Harris is deep under it because Donald keeps admitting it,” Mary Trump wrote about her uncle in her newsletter “The Good In Us.”
Mary Trump has been a harsh critic of her uncle. She previously called him “crazy” and said “democracy would be over” if he became president again. She previously published a book about the former president entitled: Too much and never enough: How my family created the most dangerous man in the world.
In her latest criticism of her uncle, Mary Trump praised the Harris campaign for its response to the Trump campaign’s attacks. The former president said, among other things, that Harris would be a “terrible president” and admitted that he “doesn’t have much respect for her” or her “intelligence.”
“Donald cannot handle defeat, but a loss to a black woman is particularly difficult for him to take. Harris’ campaign deserves huge praise for understanding how to put pressure on Donald’s very fragile psyche,” she wrote.
One of the Harris campaign’s main lines of attack on the Trump team was to label the former president and his running mate, JD Vance, “weird” after he referred to prominent Democrats as “childless cat ladies” and Trump tried to defend him.
They also issued a series of press releases criticizing the former president for spreading “dangerous lies.”
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“This is trolling at its finest,” said Mary Trump.
“Their rapid response and press teams are running an aggressive presidential campaign that, to my knowledge, is unique in modern American political history.
“This kind of approach highlights Donald’s weaknesses while exacerbating them. It also makes it impossible for Donald to stick to his message and avoid the personal attacks that his advisers are so keen to make because they threaten his re-election.”
“Candidates Harris and Walz understand that the best way to take down a tyrant with the power of Donald Trump, the unimaginable power he hopes to seize, is to mock him and get others to laugh at him,” she added.
In conversation with Newsweek, Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, said: “She has no idea what she’s talking about and should probably spend a little less time on Twitter at Resistance and more time in the real world where she would realize that Americans support President Trump and want him back in the White House.”
Since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris has consistently been polling against Trump. All national polls have her ahead of the former president, including FiveThirtyEight, where she is 2.6 points ahead of Trump.
This is a stark contrast to early July, when Joe Biden was still in the race and Trump was consistently ahead of him in polls. According to Mary Trump, this is a source of great frustration for her uncle.
“He remains angry that he is no longer running against President Biden,” she wrote. “He has no idea how to combat the fact that he is losing, so he is resorting to even crueler means.”
Mary Trump further noted that it is not just about “getting under Donald’s skin” that will help Harris win in November, “it is the contrast between the campaigns.”
“On Friday, Harris noted during her speech introducing her economic policy in North Carolina that she used to work at McDonald’s. Donald had a million dollars at the age of one,” she wrote. An investigation by The New York Times found that by the age of three, Donald Trump was earning $200,000 a year (in today’s dollars) from his father’s real estate empire. By the age of eight, he was a millionaire.
She also referenced comments made by Harris in a recent fundraising email in which she talked about how she felt on election night in 2016 when Trump was elected president.
“It was incredibly bittersweet. When I took the stage for my acceptance speech – to represent California in the Senate – I ripped up my notes. I just said, ‘We’re going to fight.’ Then I went home and sat on the couch with a family-size pack of Nacho Doritos. I didn’t share a single chip with anyone. Not even Doug. I just watched TV in utter shock and dismay,” Harris wrote.
“That may be one of the most relatable things a candidate has ever said,” Mary Trump replied.
“I challenge anyone to remember a comparable moment of honesty and vulnerability from Donald Trump.
“Kamala Harris is not afraid of Donald, and that is reflected in her campaign. But Kamala Harris is also not afraid to be herself, and that is reflected in her campaign,” she concluded.
