‘The Daily Show’ criticizes Trump for involving Mindy Kaling in attacks on VP Harris

Donald Trump’s combative and falsehood-ridden appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention on Wednesday continues to be a font of punchline fodder for comedians.

On Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show, host Ronny Chieng slammed the former president for dragging The Office writer and star Mindy Kaling into his false assertion at the conference that Vice President Kamala Harris “happened to turn Black.” (The VP is of Indian and Jamaican descent.)

After noting how Trump doubled down on his lie with a post on Truth Social, featuring a 2020 video of Kaling cooking Masala dosa with Harris, Chieng marveled, “How did he even find this? Was he doing deep oppo research on Mindy Kaling’s Instagram page? How far down the Mindy rabbit hole did he go? Is he going to come out next week like, ‘Kamala Harris is not Black, and Mindy and B.J. Novak belong together, okay?'” Watch the full segment below.

Chieng went on mock Trump for not understanding that the video of Kaling and Harris cooking an Indian dish “doesn’t even prove his point” — especially because in the video, the Vice President tells Kaling, “You look like the entire one-half of my family.”

“How does this guy not understand what ‘half’ means?” Chieng asks. “Like, he constantly tells us he’s a genius, but he can’t comprehend a Goldendoodle?”

Trump’s racist attacks on Vice President Harris also earned him scorn from the hosts of The View. “This is the same old stuff he did with [Barack] Obama,” vented Whoopi Goldberg on Thursday’s episode of the ABC talk show. “He made people think there was something wrong. Obama, his mom was white, his dad was Black. Now, if the KKK was chasing him, they’d say, ‘There goes a Black man.’ If the KKK was chasing Kamala, they’d say, ‘There goes a Black woman.'”

The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11 p.m. on Comedy Central.