The White House on Thursday blasted right-wing activist Laura Loomer for mocking Vice President Harris' Indian ancestry.
Loomer, a former congressional candidate, recently said on social media that if Harris wins the election, “the White House will smell like curry and White House speeches will be delivered via a call center.”
Asked about the remarks at the daily briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the comments “disturbing.”
“No leader should ever associate with someone who spreads this kind of ugliness. This is the very poison of racism,” Jean-Pierre said.
“This is exactly the kind of hateful, categorical rhetoric we must condemn and which should not be part of the fabric of this country. It doesn't matter your political view. We must stand up and condemn this abhorrent, abhorrent language,” she added.
Loomer has previously called the 9/11 attacks an “insider job,” a comment Jean-Pierre brought up Thursday in his condemnation of an ally of former President Trump.
“No leader should be involved in this or promote this,” she said.
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, an ally of Trump, also criticized Loomer's comments about Harris.
Greene said Loomer's comments “do not represent where we stand as Republicans or MAGA people. They do not represent where President Trump stands. Behavior like this should never be tolerated.”
Since then, Greene and Loomer have had a heated exchange on social platform X, with Loomer calling Greene a “rageful anti-Semite” and defending Greene's original post as “a funny joke about Kamala Harris who used her Indian mother as a way to dodge the question.”
