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brewens

(15,359 posts)
2. It's an old people way of being disrespectful. Mispronouncing someone's name. They can deny it by saying it's
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 01:42 AM
Aug 2024

all confusing and foreign sounding too. Plays the racist rubes as well.

BrianTheEVGuy

(697 posts)
3. It's a new spell in the Harry Potter universe
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 01:44 AM
Aug 2024

Trumplemort is planning to point his wand at critics and shout "Kamabla Kadavera," which will trap them in a tacky Trump Daytona Beach hotel for eternity.

RockRaven

(19,381 posts)
4. I assumed it was a reference to "blah" although that seems rather tepid for
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 01:46 AM
Aug 2024

The Dotard.

I saw someone else posit that by incorporating a "b" was a way of conflating Kamala with Obama, but that seemed like a stretch to me.

Maeve

(43,457 posts)
15. I think you're both right
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 08:53 AM
Aug 2024

Blah, black, as long as it is perceived as negative in his weird dystopia...

canetoad

(20,769 posts)
6. I asked the same thing
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 03:17 AM
Aug 2024

In another thread. Search for "Kamabla" and you find several articles accusing trump of inventing gibberish. Works for me.

akbacchus_BC

(5,830 posts)
11. It is typical of the anti-christ to deliberately to mispronounce his opponents names.
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 06:06 AM
Aug 2024

What an idiot. His cult loves that crap and his idiocy.

tanyev

(49,297 posts)
14. I wondered the same thing when he called Nikki Haley "Nimbra".
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 08:27 AM
Aug 2024

I mean, obviously it’s a deliberate variation on their name in an attempt to insult, but mostly it’s sound and fury signifying nothing.

I did find this article, though, in which he gives some explanation of his jeenyus thought process:

Former President Trump doubled down on mocking GOP primary challenger Nikki Haley’s birth name, saying that the nickname just “came” to him.

Fox News’s Bret Baier asked Trump in an interview that aired Sunday why he mocked Haley’s birth name on social media last week by repeatedly calling her “Nimbra.” Trump said that he gives nicknames to many people, suggesting that it is a useful strategy for him while he is on the campaign trail.

“I do that with a lot of people, like Hutchinson. I mean, he was polling at zero for about one year, and I called him rather than Asa, I called him Ada Hutchinson, and it just felt good to me. And with her, it’s just something that came. It’s a little bit of a takeoff on her name. You know, her name, wherever she may come from,” Trump said.

“Some people say I’m very good at that, but, uh, I can’t get into too many because many of those people that I named like that are Republicans, and we don’t want to bring that up, but, uh, no, it’s just, uh, it’s a takeoff. I have fun with it. And sometimes, to tell you the truth, it’s a very effective tool,” Trump told Baier, speaking of giving people nicknames.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4420434-trump-on-mocking-haleys-birth-name-its-just-something-that-came/


I remember there was a story during his presidency from someone who’d been in a meeting with him and this person noticed he was unusually engaged and taking lots of notes. At the end of the meeting they took a peek at what he’d been writing and it was nickname ideas for a person or persons who had been criticizing him. Such a child.
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