Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, had some choice words to say about her political rival and the sitting president’s administration earlier this week at a Hollywood summit, prompting the White House to respond.
What Harris said and White House reaction
On Monday, at the fourth annual A Day of Unreasonable Conversation summit, held at The Getty Center with The Hollywood Reporter, celebrities gathered for “candid conversations designed to challenge beliefs, expand perspectives and influence onscreen stories,” according to the outlet.
Harris attended as one of the last guest appearances, promoting her recent book release, “107 Days,” a memoir detailing her personal experience running for president against Donald Trump after former President Joe Biden dropped out of the race just a few months before Election Day.
“One of the other reasons I wrote it is history is going to write about this,” she told event attendees. “And it was important to me that that be told with my voice being present. And I would say that everyone, we are living history right now. And you all as storytellers are living this. You’re not passive observers. You know that. You’re living it.”
“And I’m gonna ask you that all the emotions that we are feeling, give those emotions, give that experience to those people that you are writing about and writing for,” she continued. “It gets back to my point about helping people just put a label on it, even if it doesn’t change the circumstance.”
Where she got the attention from the White House was when she told her audience that it’s important to “debunk” what the Trump administration “is trying to sell the American people.”
“So part of this moment requires us to also debunk some of this stuff they’re trying to sell the American people, to scapegoat, instead of owning up to the responsibility that the powerful have to have some level of concern and care. It’s not just basic (expletive) curiosity.”
The foul language targeted toward the GOP White House continued:
“There’s so much about this moment that is trying to make people feel like they’ve lost their mind, when in fact, these (expletive) are crazy.”
Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, told Fox News that “Kamala Harris should listen to an audio recording of her cackle of a laugh before calling anyone crazy.”