Former Trump White House communications director Mike Dubke on Thursday put forward an explanation for Donald Trump’s widely condemned antics at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago.
Trump berated the moderators Wednesday night for their lines of questioning and falsely suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris, his likely rival in the 2024 election, had only just started to identify as a Black woman for political reasons. She’d only pushed her Indian heritage before, Trump untruthfully said.
For Dubke, it’s all about Trump “trying to get back into the conversation” following “a week of this Harris mania that’s been going on” after President Joe Biden nixed his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris to replace him.
“One of the ways he knows to get back into the conversation is to say things that are going to be picked up on cable news and especially saying things in front of a Black journalist audience that are going to be picked up…