Vice President Kamala Harris is under fire after footage shows her laughing when asked about the deadly chaos in Afghanistan.
The VP — heavily criticized for her delay in addressing the disaster that started after the US pulled out despite the Taliban’s resurgence — was already grinning widely when she approached reporters Friday.
A reporter attempted to ask about her “response on Americans” — but the VP cut her off before she could finish.
“Hold on, hold on — slow down everybody!” Harris said, before letting out her now-notorious laugh, shaking her shoulders as she chuckled.
The VP finally controlled herself to insist that the Biden administration “couldn’t have a higher priority right now” than Afghanistan.
Harris, who has previously been criticized for similar reactions at seemingly inappropriate moments, spoke as she was heading overseas — but not to Afghanistan.
Instead, she traveled to Asia for stops in Singapore and Vietnam — ironically, the sites of previous US-UK military humiliations.
“Apparently she thinks it’s a laughing matter,” one person tweeted as the footage of her cackle was spread on social media.
“This is like a Saturday Night Live skit — except it’s real and she’s not acting. Nothing to laugh at,” another person wrote, while others showed a meme where laughter was her response to every emotion.
“How has she not trained that laugh away yet?” another asked.
Other observers were outraged that she was heading to Asia while insisting that Afghanistan was the key concern.
“A higher priority right while she jets off to anywhere but where she needs to be,” one person tweed, while another person said it was “why I’m going to board this plane and depart this self-inflicted catastrophe.”
“Kamala Harris says that the administration couldn’t have a higher priority than Afghanistan… Is that why she’s in Vietnam on a foreign trip and Joe Biden has been on vacation half the time?” another person tweeted.
On Monday, Harris repeatedly declined to engage when asked what she felt should have been done differently in the withdrawal.
“There’s no question there will be and should be a robust analysis of what has happened,” she said at a press conference in Singapore.
“But right now there’s no question that our focus has to be on evacuating American citizens, Afghans who worked with us and vulnerable Afghans, including women and children.”
The vice president’s repeated dismissals come as she continues to tank in polls. According to a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday, 55 percent of likely voters say the former senator from California is either “not qualified” or “not at all qualified” to assume the duties of the presidency.
The trip marks Harris’ second foreign trip in office — she visited Guatemala and Mexico in June — and will be the first time a U.S. vice president has visited Vietnam.
With Post wires
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