Mindy Kaling Finally Fires Back at Trump’s Dig at Her and Kamala Harris
Mindy Kaling apologized for “outing” Kamala Harris as an Indian-American woman at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday—poking fun at the video former President Donald Trump posted while trying to argue she was being disingenuous about her background.
“I am an incredibly famous Gen Z actress who you might recognize from The Office, The Mindy Project, or as the woman who courageously outed Kamala Harris as Indian in an Instagram cooking video,” Kaling, who at 45 is solidly Gen X, said while addressing the crowd in Chicago.
Trump shared a clip from the cooking video in a post on Truth Social in July, claiming that “Crazy Kamala is saying she’s Indian, not Black.” Harris is the daughter of a Shyamala Gopalan, an immigrant from India, and Donald Harris, a former Stanford professor born in Jamaica.