Matt Walsh complains at length about Kamala Harris joking with Tim Walz about tacos
“The mayonnaise trope ... is an insult that some Black people came up with to make fun of white people. It's not good natured or friendly or grounded in any kind of affection or recognition at all.”
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From the August 16, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): OK. So now most people seem to be focused on the fact that this is so awkward and fake and lame, but everyone's skipping over the more important point, which is that a presidential candidate just casually dropped anti-white racism in the middle of what was supposed to be a lighthearted video. You know, Tim Walz says that he makes white guy tacos, and Kamala says, well, what is that, mayonnaise and tuna? Like, that is anti-white racism. That is what that is.
And if you don't believe that, right? If you think that I'm overstating the case, alright, well, just imagine it the other way. Imagine a Black guy says to Donald Trump, I make Black guy tacos, and Donald Trump says, oh, what is that? Like, fried chicken and watermelon? Maybe sprinkle some Kool-Aid powder over top? Am I right? How do you think everybody would react to that? What do you think the reaction would be? Nuclear meltdown, literally. I mean, they would probably shoot a nuclear missile at Donald Trump for that. They would execute him via nuclear attack if you were to say something like that. I mean, the outrage would be so immense. We would never hear the end of it.
We would never hear the end of it. The date of this black guy taco comment would be remembered by the media forever and memorialized. Like, for years after, they would solemnly refer to 8/16. Right? We'd have January 6th.
Do you remember 8/16? I remember where I was on 8/16. The day of the fried chicken and watermelon taco joke. They would be weeping in the street. They would build they would build statues and and memorials to the lives lost because of the taco joke.
KFC and Kool-Aid companies would come out and denounce Trump over this. So would every watermelon distributor in the country. And we all know that. And this is this is another one of those things where, like, there are people that are gonna clip this. They're gonna take this clip of me saying that the comment from Kamala Harris was anti-white racism, and they're gonna try to present it as though it's just like on its face absurd.
And yet even they know that what I'm saying is a thousand percent true because you damn well know that that comment the other way, it won't even be a discussion about whether it's racist. It would be considered the most racist thing a president has ever done, including the presidents who own slaves.
And that's in spite of the fact that the watermelon fried chicken trope for Black people is actually significantly less racist than what Kamala said because Black people have a reputation for liking fried chicken and watermelon because that's something that actually does come out of Black culture. Black comedians make jokes about that kind of stuff all the time. That sort of joke comes from a place of recognition and affection, really. Like, it's not offensive. There's nothing offensive — fried chicken's great. Who doesn't like fried chicken? You know, it's on the level of, like, making a joke about how Asian people are good at math. It's like, yeah, it's stereotypical. They're not all good at math, but it's not bad to be good at math. It does come from a place of, like, a lot of them are good at math, and that is also — it's the kind of thing you'll listen to an Asian comedian, they'll make those kinds of jokes.
On the other hand, the mayonnaise thing for white people is it's purely spiteful and hateful. There's no — it's not — there's not any kind of affection in it. There's not any kind of recognition. It's not something that actually comes from white people or white culture. White people don't actually have any special affinity for mayonnaise. There's not any — like, that doesn't — it doesn't come from — you talk to white people, they're like, you know what? I love mayonnaise. Doesn't happen. It's not a thing. The mayonnaise trope, it comes from, like, the most spiteful corners of Black Twitter. Yeah. That's where you'll find those kinds of jokes. They'll refer to white people as the mayonnaise people, that kind of thing. I mean, it's really — it's a dumb insult. It's really stupid, but it's quite, like, spiteful. It's just like a hateful — we hate you and don't like you kind of joke. So it is an insult that some Black people came up with to make fun of white people. It's not good natured or friendly or grounded in any kind of affection or recognition at all. So, what Kamala said is worse. Like, it's significantly worse, and yet it barely raises an eyebrow.