Eric Trump likes tweet calling Kamala Harris ‘whorendous pick’
Eric Trump. the son of Donald Trump, liked a tweet on Wednesday that referred to Senator Kamala Harris using sexist language.
The remark was made by another Twitter user in response to presumptive Democratic party presidential nominee Joe Biden picking Ms Harris as his running mate for the 2020 US election.
"Raise your hand if you think Harris was a whorendous pick. May have misspelled," the Tweet, from a user named Lori Hendry, said.
The tweet has since been deleted, but not before receiving a like from the president's son.
The president has not held back in his own attacks on Ms Harris since her selection as Mr Biden's running mate.
During a press briefing on Tuesday, he said Ms Harris was "nasty" and said her accusations during a primary debate that Mr Biden supported racist policies when he was a lawmaker were "disrespectful."
Mr Trump also tried to drive a wedge between Ms Harris and Mr Biden on Twitter.
"There was nobody meaner or more condescending to Slow Joe, not even me, and yet she quickly evaporated down to almost zero in the polls. Bad!" Mr Trump wrote.
Moments after her selection was announced, Mr Trump released an attack ad calling Ms Harris "phony" and suggesting she was going to push the Democratic party to the "radical left." Ms Harris's politics are not viewed as particularly left by many progressive Democrats.
During a Fox Business interview, the president attacked Ms Harris for her questioning of current Supreme Court Justice Bret Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings.
"Now you have a, sort of a mad woman I call her, because she was so angry and such hatred with Justice Kavanaugh," he said. "She was the angriest of the group, and they were all angry."
In response to Mr Trump's attacks, Mr Biden called for his supporters to rally around Ms Harris.
"Is anyone surprised Donald Trump has a problem with a strong woman, or strong women across the board?" he said during his first even with Ms Harris since her selection as his running mate. "Kamala Harris has had your back, and now we have to have her back. She's going to stand with me in this campaign. And all of us are going to stand up for her."
