Kamala Harris addressed the political landscape of the United States while on stage at A Day of Unreasonable Conversation summit in Los Angeles, saying, “These motherfuckers are crazy.”
Harris took the stage on Monday at the fourth annual summit, first reflecting on what election night was like when she lost to current President Donald Trump.
“I couldn’t articulate anything else—I kept saying over and over again, ‘My God, my God,’” she said. “I had never felt that level of pain and grief except when my mother died, and it was grieving for the country. I knew what was going to happen.”
Later, while sitting with WNBA player Napheesa Collier, Harris delivered a message to creators in the room that centered around the current state of the United States.
“We are living history right now and you all as storytellers are living this,” explained Harris. “You’re not passive observers, you’re living it, and I would ask you that all the emotions that we are feeling, give those emotions, gift that experience to those people that you are writing about and writing for. It gets back to my point about helping people, just put a label on it, even if it doesn’t change the circumstance.
“Because there is so much about this moment that is trying to make people feel like they’ve lost their minds, when in fact, these motherfuckers are crazy,” she concluded, to which the crowd applauded and laughed.
Harris’ new memoir, 107 Days, covers her time running for president in 2024. The book recently went viral because it includes a line from Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA” as part of its epigraph, specifically, “I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA.”
In the book, Harris criticized former President Joe Biden for calling her before a debate with Trump to tell her about “power brokers” in Philadelphia who wouldn’t support her.
“I just couldn’t understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself,” she said. “Distracting me with worry about hostile power-brokers in the biggest city of the most important state.”