Harris on Trump: ‘We’re dealing with a communist dictator’
Former Vice President Harris bashed President Trump on Monday night, saying that the United States is dealing with a communist dictator in the White House.
Harris wrote in her memoir “107 Days,” which was released Tuesday, that she predicted how Trump would act in a second term, but that she didn’t expect the level of capitulation from the private sector toward him.
She was pressed on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” about why she didn’t anticipate such action and responded that she believed “titans of industry would be guardrails for our democracy.”
“And one by one by one, they have been silent, they have been…feckless,” Harris said. “It’s not like they’re going to lose their yacht or their house in the Hamptons.”
“Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on The Ellipse, a tyrant,” she said, referencing her rally last year on the White House Ellipse in Washington, D.C. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up,”
Harris predicted that corporate leaders haven’t spoken up because they fear Trump’s threats, want a merger approved or want to avoid an investigation.
The former vice president in her Ellipse speech before the 2024 election called Trump a “petty tyrant” and warned that “the United States of America is not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators.”
Harris pointed to the announcement that late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel would return to his show on Tuesday to argue that is an example of “the power being with the people.”
“We saw the power of the people over the last few days, and it spoke volumes, and it moved a decision in the right direction,” she said.
Disney said on Monday it would reinstate Kimmel after pulling the late-night host off the air over remarks related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The remarks lead to a sharp rebuke from the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, and Kimmel’s suspension sparked outrage from Democrats and First Amendment advocates.