Kamala Harris Taunts Trump At Debate With Global Opinions

In one of several moments during the ABC News presidential debate Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris got under Donald Trump’s skin by telling her Republican opponent that the former president is considered a joke to world leaders.

After Trump made it clear he still refuses to accept that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, Harris said that the United States cannot afford to have a president who will continue to try to “upend the will of the voters in a free and fair election.”

“I have traveled the world as vice president of the United States, and world leaders are laughing at Donald Trump,” the Democratic nominee said while facing her opponent. “I have talked with military leaders, some of whom worked with you, and they say you’re a disgrace.”

“And when you then talk in this way in a presidential debate and deny what over and over again are court cases you have lost ― because you did, in fact, lose that election ― it leads one to believe that perhaps we do not have, in the candidate to my right, the temperament or the ability to not be confused about fact,” she said. “That’s deeply troubling, and the American people deserve better.”

Harris later repeated that military leaders think Trump is a disgrace after the former president accused her of wanting the state of Israel to no longer exist. The Biden-Harris administration has sent unconditional military aid to Israel, and Harris has repeatedly said that she believes Israel has a right to defend itself.

“Donald Trump is weak and wrong on national security and foreign policy. It is well-known that he admires dictators [and] wants to be a dictator on day one, according to himself,” she responded before listing off Trump’s documented declarations of admiration for autocrats including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Trump took the bait, pivoting to focus on claiming that leaders such as Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban want him to be president again because countries like China, North Korea and Russia allegedly feared him when he was in office.

“It is absolutely well-known that these dictators and autocrats are rooting for you to be president again because they’re so clear they can manipulate you with flattery and favors, and that is why so many military leaders who you have worked with have told me you are a disgrace,” Harris said. “That is why we understand that we have to have a president who is not consistently weak and wrong on national security, including the importance of upholding and respecting in highest regard our military.”