The hashtag #WhenIturnedBlack is now trending on X as social media users troll Donald Trump over his unhinged comments claiming Kamala Harris “happened to turn Black.”
Former Comedy Central star Roy Wood Jr kicked off the viral trend on Wednesday, clapping back at the former president’s racially-charged remarks with a sarcastic social media post.
“We now know Kamala’s brave story. When did the rest of you “turn” black? How old were you? Where were you when the blackness finally took over your body? Share your stories. This is a safe space. #WhenITurnedBlack,” he posted, along with a video of Trump’s comments.
One social media user joked that “one thing Black people gonna do is take nonsense and turn into a creative comeback.”
The trend came after the former president appeared on stage for heated question-and-answer session at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference in Chicago on Wednesday, where he widly claimed that Harris “happened to turn Black” only recently.
“I didn’t know she was Black,” he said. “She happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black? … I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person.”
Trump is now facing backlash over the comments, including from Harris, who described his appearance at the convention as “the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect.”
