Vice President Kamala Harris graces the July 29 cover of New York magazine. An illustration shows Harris pumping her fists in the air while sitting on top of a coconut.
An X user says the coconut refers to Harris’ infamous “coconut tree” speech in 2023.
I’m going to post a video of Kamala Harris and her moronic takes every day until the election.
This is her famous “coconut tree” speech from 2023. pic.twitter.com/Ur32WLtB64
— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) July 28, 2024
The issue’s subheading reads: “Welcome to Kamalot” — a spin on Harris’ name and “Camelot,” which symbolized John F. Kennedy’s storybook presidency.
Also joining Harris on the cover are former President Barack Obama, President Joe Biden, Beyonce, George Clooney, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, AOC, and more.
New York magazine captioned an X post: “Welcome to Kamalot! Our new issue grapples with the two weeks that reshaped the 2024 election — and the thrill of taking a risk on Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.”
Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee when Biden stepped down after testing positive for Covid-19 for the third time in 2 years.
In the issue, the writer tackles the big question: Can she win?
“There are certainly terrible things in store: the racism and sexism Harris will face, the monstrous and vengeful resistance to her rise, in which she will be accused of incompetence and radicalism and being an affirmative-action token and a barren cat lady and a welfare queen who has slept her way to the top…
“Perhaps this is why so many Democrats have clung to the rocks of a familiar path instead of looking out over the cliff and imagining a long, scary jump toward an unknown shore. What if they fell and lost everything? And with the most vulnerable — the people the party, at its best, wants to represent, empower and protect — most at risk, this caution has been rational, even moral.
But look. We have now lost so much already and are on the verge of losing so much more. There aren’t many rocks left to cling to, and the ones that exist seem to have cognitive impairment and COVID. So we better leap. We have to leap!”
