Former United States President Donald Trump got personal in his attacks on Vice-President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival in the upcoming presidential polls, at an election event on Saturday, saying he was “much better looking than Harris”.
"I am much better looking than her. I think I'm a better-looking person than Kamala," Trump said during an election rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, one of the battleground states that will determine the presidential election in November.
According to a report by The Hill, Trump made the comments regarding a sketch of Harris on the cover of Time magazine. “Time magazine doesn’t have a picture of her. They have this unbelievable artist drawing her,” he said. He claimed they took a lot of pictures that “didn’t work out so they hired a sketch artist”.
Over the last three weeks, Trump has launched a series of personal attacks on Harris, calling her a “lunatic” and “crazy”, questioning her ethnicity, and claiming that he feels “entitled” to these slurs because she makes him angry. He also said Harris has referred to him as “weird”.
He also questioned where President Joe Biden was. “I was running against Biden and now I’m running against someone else,” Trump was quoted as saying by The Hill. “I said, who am I running against, Harris? I said, ‘Who the hell is Harris?’” he added.
The former president also took a dig at Pennsylvania Democrats including the state’s Governor Josh Shapiro and Senator Bob Casey.
These remarks come as many Republicans, including Trump’s former adviser Kellyanne Conway, have called on him to steer away from personal attacks and stick to policy in the campaign, according to The Hill.
Trump’s "looks" remark was one of many attacks against Harris and her Democratic allies during Saturday’s rally. He also criticised Harris’ economic plan announced on Friday, labelling it as a move that “will usher communism in the US”. He referred to it as the “Maduro plan", drawing a comparison to Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.