- Last week, photos of Williams from when she was dating now Vice President Harris resurfaced.
- He attacked Trump’s campaign spokesman after he posted an image of the presenter
Talk show host Montel Williams mocked Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in his latest burst of online activity since his former romance with Kamala Harris resurfaced.
“A very strange tweet from an even stranger guy. Good morning everyone!” wrote Williams, who briefly dated the vice president and now presumptive Democratic nominee two decades ago.
He was responding to a post on X by Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, who posted the image online with the caption: “Montel Williams and his couch.”
That post came after AP published and then retracted a fact check about a false demand that Trump’s running mate JD Vance’s book contains a passage about having sex with a couch (it contains no such passage). The tweet about Williams contained no further explanation.
Williams has been involved in a flurry of online activity since Harris suddenly emerged as the presumptive Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden announced he would step back and endorse her.
Last Sunday, she drew attention for briefly appearing to sidestep her former flame with glowing comments about Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, shortly after Biden announced he was dropping out of his campaign to retain the White House.
Talk show host Montel Williams responded to the Trump campaign following a post that showed him sitting on a couch.
“I’ve watched @GovWesMoore lead my home state of Maryland, and I know leadership when I see it,” Williams posted on X.
“I would love to see Wes Moore at the top of the ticket or not on my ticket and I’m ready to campaign.”
That happened around the same time that conservative X users had resurrected images of him appearing with Harris at celebrity events two decades ago when they were dating.
He later posted explanations online after his speech in support of Moore, a telegenic politician who was being mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, sparked online comments.
“Is anyone surprised that I am interested in a politician who also went to the Naval Academy and whose leadership has impressed me?” he wrote. Then, as Democrats consolidated around Harris, he made it clear that he was ready to back the eventual nominee.
Montel Williams and Kamala Harris attended the Eighth Annual Race to End Multiple Sclerosis at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, California on May 18, 2001. Williams has been responding after photos from when they were dating resurfaced online.
He retweeted Moore’s own message supporting Harris and highlighted it online: “I remind everyone that I retweeted this,” he posted last Monday.
Williams attacked Trump in a subsequent tweet on Monday, again complaining about the couch image.
Last week, in a post she has since deleted, Williams attacked Vance, posting a video in which Vance commented on “a bunch of cat-loving women who don’t have children and are miserable with their own lives and the choices they’ve made so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.” This came as Vance criticized Harris, who has stepchildren, among others, who had not had children and were making policies.
“When people tell you who they are, believe them,” he wrote in the since-deleted post, which contained a link to a video shared by Kamala’s headquarters page.
“It’s really odd that a spokesperson for a major presidential candidate went on my social media to take a copyrighted photo of me sitting on a couch, projecting ease, a love of life, and a passion to respect the man I am today. You’d think an official spokesperson for a campaign would have more important things to do, but weirdos usually don’t,” he wrote.
Her “bizarre” attack also reflected a new approach from Harris’s campaign, which has been using the adjective to try to characterize Trump himself.
