The former president, who has a history of mispronouncing the names of black women, slammed the newly appointed justice in front of a crowd of supporters on Saturday night. At the time, he was in touch with Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who is facing challenger Trump endorser Kelly Tshibaka in her bid for re-election in November. Calling Ms Murkowski “worse than a Democrat” and a “thankless senator”, Mr Trump lamented that – along with two other Republican senators – she had joined all 50 Democrats in voting to approve Judge Jackson’s nomination to Supreme Court in April. “Vote to approve Joe Biden’s radical left-wing justice ‘Kechangie Brown Jackson,’” he said. “Most far-left justice in history by about six.” This is not the first time that Mr. Trump has lashed out at the pronunciation of a woman of color’s name. During his failed 2020 race for the White House, Mr. Trump came under fire for repeatedly mispronouncing and mocking the name of then-vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris. At a rally in October 2020, he mocked Ms Harris for getting “too upset” about her name and claimed she couldn’t pronounce it herself. “KAH-ma-la. You have to pronounce it exactly right, otherwise, he gets very upset, even though he can’t pronounce it correctly,” she said. Other prominent Republicans also joined in the attack on the name of the first woman and woman of color to become vice president of the United States, with then-Senator David Perdue also drawing ire for his comments. “KAH-mah-lah? Ka-MAH-lah? Kamala-mala-mala? I do not know. Whatever,” he said at a Trump rally. Perdue later lost his Senate seat to Democrat Jon Ossoff. Ms Harris hit out at Republicans over the saga, saying it was “about respect and respect for everything that goes with a name”. Donald Trump speaks on stage at a GOP rally in Anchorage, Alaska, on July 9 (Getty Images) Trump’s mispronunciation of Justice Jackson’s name comes just days after she was sworn in as the first black woman on the nation’s highest court. The former president made it clear he is not happy about her nomination, accusing her of being “incredibly disrespectful” in her confirmation hearings to Republican senators who he claimed were “asking very nice questions.” The highly regarded judge has clashed with the former president several times in the past during her tenure on the Washington district court. In 2019, he issued a scathing ruling on Mr. Trump’s claim that his White House advisers were protected from subpoenas to appear before Congress. “Simply, the bottom line from the last 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings,” he wrote at the time. As well as mispronouncing the justice’s name and attacking Ms Murkowski, Mr Trump used his speech on Saturday night to call Elon Musk “another bull*** artist”, to claim that climate change would lead to “a little more waterfront property” and continue to push his longstanding and debunking “Big Lie” that he was “stolen” the 2020 presidential election. Trump was speaking at the event to rally Senate candidate Kelly Chibaka and House candidate Sarah Palin ahead of next month’s Alaska primary. The appearance comes ahead of two more public hearings this week by the House committee investigating the former president’s involvement in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, which sought to subvert democracy and overturn the legitimate results of the presidential election. of 2020. The first hearing will be held on Tuesday, examining evidence of how the crowd that stormed the Capitol was assembled, including a focus on far-right extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. A second session is also scheduled for Thursday.
