Fun-loving Kamala Harris apparently
enjoys a good laugh, but the GOP is serious about turning her laugh into a liability.
This is a joke, right? No, it is not.
When President Biden
quit the campaign, the GOP found itself grasping for an issue to replace the talking point that would have dominated the Trump campaign right up until Election Eve -- namely, President Biden’s
cognitive fitness for office.
But not anymore. The GOP’s new issue? The style of the vice president’s laughter. In addition to being lambasted on
“Hannity” and lampooned on “Gutfeld!,” former President Trump has taken up the cackle cudgel to nickname Harris
“Laughin’ Kamala.”
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“I call her Laughin’ Kamala. You ever watched her laugh? She’s crazy,” Trump declared at a Michigan campaign stop
on July 20. “You know, you can tell a lot by a laugh. She’s nuts.”
Coincidentally, “laughin’ ” rhymes with
“Laugh-In,” a show laughin’ Kamala may have enjoyed in the formative years of her early childhood.
She was born in 1964. The show aired from 1968 to 1973. Whether or not she laughed with “Laugh-In,” the adult Kamala is evidently a fan of TV comedy, particularly in
late-night.
Indeed, she is practically a late-night regular, having guested on late-night shows 20 times in the last five years.
Her favorite stop: “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS. She has appeared on “Colbert” eight times, including participating in comedy
sketches, according to Deadline.com.
That’s her in the above photo from CBS reacting uproariously to Colbert’s comedic capers on “The Late
Show” in March 2023.
Laughin’ Kamala’s most recent late-night guest shot was on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on June
5.
But the laughs were limited, as the taping was reportedly disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters who somehow gained entry to the “Kimmel”
studio. It was the Veep’s third appearance on “Kimmel.”
The rest of night-owl Kamala’s late-night scorecard since 2019, according to
Deadline: five times on “Late Night with Seth Myers” and two each on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “The Daily Show.”
Over the last half-dozen or so presidential election cycles, tours of the late-night shows have become de rigueur for candidates of both parties.
This time around, it’s a sure bet the vice president will turn up in the late-night hours, since she always
seems to have a good time with the friendly and cordial late-night hosts.
For Trump, campaign stops are not likely in the cards on “Kimmel” and
“Colbert,” since the ex-president and his campaign managers probably see the shows as hostile environments for him.
On the subject of laughs, Harris and
Trump are polar opposites. She laughs, and he does not (or so it seems).
Perhaps the vice president can join in the nickname game. How about “dour
Donald”?