'So fake': Kamala Harris blasted for faking phone call to avoid press questions

Vice President and Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris was blasted on Monday for pretending to take a phone call so she didn't have to answer any questions from the press as she boarded Air Force Two heading to a campaign stop in Michigan.

Harris exited her official vehicle wearing wired headphones connected to her cell phone, but made the fakeness of her ploy obvious when she also held the phone up to her ear.

Kamala Harris departs Joint Base Andrews, headed to Detroit, Michigan pic.twitter.com/QQY9UiXlQL

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) September 2, 2024

Several alternative media figures and regular X users commented on her tactic.

"Full of it"

“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,” former Trump 2020 campaign communications director and Washington Times columnist Tim Murtaugh posted on X.

“This destroys the illusion and tells everyone you’re full of it … again,” Murtaugh added. “She truly is bad at this.”

“She may not have been a senator long, but mastered the ‘Can’t talk, on a call’ play,” NBC News White House correspondent Mike Memoli also said on X in a double slam on her fakeness and her inexperience.

“She’s so fake,” former Utah GOP Congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz complained.

“Sorry, too busy to answer questions. I’m listening to the new Taylor Swift song,” Breitbart reporter Elizabeth Weibel joked.

"Too busy and important"

Harris has only given one unscripted interview in the month since President Joe Biden stepped down from his re-election bid and she garnered enough support to become the party's nominee.

In that under half an hour interview, which she did with running mate Tim Walz, she refused to give straight answers about how she would fix the economy and immigration. She also declined to tell viewers what her stance on Israel was.

“Kamunism avoids the press,” one X user said sarcastically, borrowing a Post headline from last week. “She’s just too busy and important.”

“This is a window into what a Harris presidency would be like,” another X user declared. “No transparency, no interaction with the press. Tim Walz will just walk away when asked a serious question. Kamala wears headphones so she doesn’t even have to hear the question."

While the liberal press did a bang-up job trying to paint Harris as a god-like figure and resurrect her dismal favorability numbers, her bump in the polls is already beginning to subside, particularly in swing states that will likely decide the election.

It didn't take long for people to see that there's almost as little between Harris's ears as there is between Biden's, and no one wants a vapid, giggly woman who avoids the press and doesn't have anything substantive to say to be their leader.