Former vice president and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris was roasted online Friday after she introduced another accent while trying to impersonate President Donald Trump as a “mob boss.”
“You know, the way that he’s thinking of foreign policy, it seems, is when he talks about America First, it’s to withdraw from these relationships and these connections,” Harris said while arguing that the administration has lost sight of international cooperation as a means to address regional conflict.
“And then he kind of acts like a mob boss. So, then he’s kind of like, ‘Oh, well, you know, you take Eastern Europe, and I’ll take the Western Hemisphere. And then you over there, you, you get Asia, and we’ll just ,’ right?”
Harris made her comments while speaking at a forum with the National Action Network, which was founded by the controversial civil rights activist Al Sharpton.
Almost immediately, the mimicry prompted criticism online.
“JUST IN: CRINGE,” Eric Daugherty, a right-leaning social media personality, said in a post to X.
“Add mafia boss to Kamala Harris list of embarrassing accents,” a Republican campaign account said in its own note.
A former Republican staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, included her Friday moment alongside a series of other impersonations.
“Kamala Harris just debuted a new accent: Mob boss. Despite a childhood in and Montreal, Canada, Kamala has what she thinks is a Detroit accent,” Steve Guest wrote.
“Kamala Harris’ ‘Trump Impersonation’ is the worst thing I have ever seen,” conservative influencer Benny Johnson said. “Total cringe.”
Harris remarks come as Trump attempts to broker peace negotiations with Iran while also inviting European allies to put pressure on Tehran to reopen waterways vital to international energy trade.
Trump blasted allies on social media for in its conflict with Iran.
“NATO WASNT THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WONT BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN,” Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, the president reached a tentative with Iran despite uncertainty about its exact terms.
Iran has presented a that appear to contradict the U.S.s own set of expectations for ending the conflict.
In a post to state media, Iran demanded the on Iran, continued control over key waterways in the region, U.S. military withdrawal from the Middle East and a suspension of hostilities against Iran and its allies, among other demands.
The two countries are set to on Saturday.
