Vice President Kamala Harris earned the new nickname “Galileo Harris” on Monday after her latest word salad about constellations and crime.
In an interview with Black Star Network host Roland Martin in North Carolina, Harris was responding to a question about former President Donald Trump’s interest in the crime rate in Democratic-run cities.
Harris’ response, instead, took a turn that no one saw coming.
“I talked with somebody once who said, ‘You know, if you just look at, where the stars are in the sky,” Harris said, per the New York Post. “Don’t look [at] ’em as just random things, if you just look at ’em as points,’ ‘Look at the constellation — what does it show you?’”
“So you just outlined it, Roland, what does it show you? That the cities that he picks on in terms of black population or black mayor or both. C’mon.”
Many X users took the opportunity to share their confusion and mock the vice president.
“Kamala Harris is a wordsmith, here she discusses stars and the constellations. Every time she does an interview her numbers drop. It’s really remarkable to see,” wrote Outkick founder Clay Travis.
“Kamala is now being called Galileo Harris because of another idiotic word salad about stars. Every time I think she can’t say anything else stupid, the next day happens,” one X user wrote.
“Kamala was asked to respond to Trump about crime in Dem run cities..? And she answered the question by talking about the constellation…. and the stars, OMG,” another user wrote.
During their discussion, Harris and Martin touched on Trump focusing on cities that have a huge black population, especially where he claimed there were voting issues in 2020, such as Atlanta and Detroit.
“He’s singling out cities where there are significant African Americans, and that’s who he’s talking about: black people,” said Martin, to which Harris agreed.
The initial question was focused on Trump slamming Democrats for the increase in crime across bigger cities, which he has been persistent on since his re-election campaign in 2020.
“Take a look at Detroit, take a look at what’s happening in Oakland, take a look at what’s happening in Baltimore, and everyone gets upset when I say it, ‘They say, “Oh, is that a racist statement?” ‘ It’s not racist,” Trump said in a summer 2020 interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
“Frankly, black people come up to me, say, ‘Thank you, thank you, Sir, for saying it.’ They want help, these cities — it’s like living in hell.”
Harris’ latest interview has been seen as a last effort to win over black voters, who have been abandoning the Democratic Party in support of Trump.
