When Vice President Kamala Harris boarded her Air Force Two on Monday, September 2, she used headphones planted in both of her ears to slide past the press and ignore questions, something that numerous politicians do to avoid pesky press questions. Kamala seems to have taken advantage of it given her seeming reluctance to deal with the press, something she has been praised by some on the left for.
The incident was exceedingly awkward, as Kamala strode toward the steps of her vice presidential jet with her headphones stuck in both ears. As she did so, she offered what looked like an awkward and somewhat half-hearted salute, shook hands with a service member, and then made her way up the steps of her jet, all while ignoring press questions.
What made the incident all the more awkward was that Kamala didn’t just walk up the Air Force Two steps and get on her way. Instead, after making her way past the group of reporters at the base of the plane’s steps, she paused, glanced back at the crowd of reporters, and waved to them. But still, despite pausing and looking at the reporters, she answered not a single question. Instead, as mentioned previously, she messed with her headphones and held her phone to her ear despite having headphones in. Some online suggested that Kamala did so to better hear the call, if there was one, with the jet engines roaring, which would make sense if there was a call rather than it being an attempt to avoid the media. Still, however, it led to a great number of funny jokes about her forgetting about the earphones.
NBC White House correspondent Mike Memoli, commenting on the incident in a funny quote tweet of the video on X (formerly Twitter), he joked that Kamala figured out in a short time in the United States Senate how to fake a call to ignore the press. He wrote, “She may not have been a senator long, but mastered the “Can’t talk, on a call” play.”
Columnist Tim Murtaugh, drawing attention to the fact that Kamala had pressed the phone to her ear despite having headphones in, wrote, “PRO TIP: When pretending to be on the phone when you walk past the press to your plane, do not plug in the headphones so others can see and ALSO HOLD THE PHONE TO YOUR EAR. This destroys the illusion and tells everyone you’re full of it … again. She truly is bad at this.”
Replying to Murtaugh, another questioned how Kamala could be the nominee despite being so vapid, writing, “We know how bad Kamala is at politics. What does it say about Democrats that they want to put her in charge of all of us? Seriously. At first it saddens me. Then it pisses me off. How dare Democrats try this crap again. Wasn’t making a dementia addled old fool into our president bad enough?”
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Another X commentator, Israel Perez, joked about the embarrassing incident, namely the fact that Kamala held the phone to her ear with the earbuds in her ears, saying, “Another Kamala fail. How are you going to be wearing headphones and then while wearing headphones put the phone up to your ear like you are taking a call. 🤦🏻♂️”
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