Trump: ‘I Was Always Nice’ to Kamala, but She Did Poorly
President Donald Trump rejected a claim in Kamala Harris’ new memoir that he praised her after her 2024 concession call, where she alleged he described her as a “tough, smart customer.”
Trump flatly denied it.
In his view, Harris was not a formidable opponent.
“Not that I know of,” Trump said in a Sunday morning television appearance that was later shared on X, when pressed about whether he had ever referred to Harris as “tough” and “smart.”
“But I was nice to her. I met her a couple of times and I was always nice to her.”
Throughout the campaign, Harris repeatedly unleashed sharp attacks against Trump, often echoing Joe Biden’s rhetoric and portraying Trump as a “threat to democracy.”
Trump, however, remarked that he was taken aback by how weak her showing was in the general election, particularly given how he has long said the electoral map tends to lean heavily toward Democrats. To him, Harris did not live up to the description she claimed he gave her.
“I thought Kamala would have done a better job than she did in terms of running, because we really won by a lot,” Trump said.
“And I thought she would have done better.”
According to The New York Times, which quoted portions of Harris’ book, she remembered Trump calling her a “tough, smart customer,” complimenting her name, and promising that he would act respectfully.
Harris also recounted that she appealed to Trump to work on uniting the country, though she concluded it was “a lost cause.”
{Matzav.com}