Kimmel jokes to Doug Emhoff: 'What was your reaction when your wife turned Black?'
Jimmy Kimmel is mocking former President Trump's remarks about Vice President Harris's heritage, asking Doug Emhoff about his feelings when his wife "turned Black."
"What was your reaction when your wife turned Black? Were you surprised?" Kimmel deadpanned to the second gentleman during a Thursday interview on his late-night ABC show.
"It's so interesting — all that stuff, it's a distraction though. Like we can joke about it, but it's literally a distraction," Emhoff replied.
"So all the insults, all the things coming at her, coming at me, coming at our family, it's literally just a distraction from what they're trying to do," he added.
During an interview in July at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, Trump was asked about comments from other Republicans calling Harris a "DEI hire."
“She was always of Indian heritage. And she was only promoting Indian heritage," he said at the time.
"I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black,” the 45th president added.
“So I don’t know, is she Indian, or is she Black?” Trump continued, later saying that Harris "was Indian all the way then all of a sudden she made a turn" and "became a Black person."
Emhoff also touched on some lighter moments during his "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" appearance, recalling how his 10th wedding anniversary with Harris coincided with the final night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago last month.
"It was so surreal, and of course I still had to come up big on our anniversary," Emhoff, 59, said.
"So I actually got the piano player who played at the after-party at our wedding 10 years ago to the night — I figured out a way to get him to Chicago," the former entertainment lawyer recalled.
After Harris's DNC speech, Emhoff said, the pair had "a little family gathering — and that dude played."
Emhoff said his wife reacted to the anniversary and post-DNC piano-playing surprise by exclaiming, "OK, that's pretty good."