How Kamala Harris became Donald Trump’s supertroll and found his weak spot

A few days ago, a post on Twitter/X from @KamalaHQ,Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign’s “official rapid response page”, contained a video clip of former president Donald Trump talking about how he’d never been given the credit he deserved for tackling Covid. The caption read: “Trump: I never got credit for COVID” and then underneath “(over a million Americans died and he told us to inject bleach)”. Another post by@KamalaHQ was from Trump’s recent press conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. “Trump spends his ‘economy speech’ complaining about Kamala Harris being on the cover of TIME magazine.”

And during last week’s calamitous interview between Trump and Elon Musk on X/Twitter, the Harris campaign trolled him in real time, pointing out that Trump argued climate change wasn’t a problem because he’ll “have more oceanfront property”.

There are sometimes 20 or 30 of these tweets a day — relentless, machine-gun social posting, each one outwardly mocking the opposition, pressing as many of the “look how weird they are being now” buttons as they can. And it’s not just the official social feeds of the Harris campaign either; Democrats on social media are also joining in the fun. Earlier this week, a screenwriter called Eric Champnella posted a video clip he’d spliced together of Trump’s now infamous rambling speech where he discusses sinking boats, batteries and shark attacks with scenes from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s nonsensical, and also very, very funny because after each thrum of Trump’s speech, the inmates in the asylum respond with alarm to his incoherent rambling.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

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