It’s a claim that echoes the one first made by Trump in July, when he participated in an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists. At that event, Trump said of Harris that “She was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage.”

Harris is both Black and Indian. Her father, Donald J. Harris, came to the U.S. from Jamaica. Her mother, the late Shyamala Gopalan, came to the U.S. from India. They both moved to the U.S. to study at the University of California, Berkeley, which is where they met in 1962.

Janet Jackson warned voters of the potential chaos surrounding the upcoming November election in a recent interview with The Guardian. The Grammy-winning singer also made false claims about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.

Janet Jackson seemingly questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ race. The singer-songwriter spoke to The Guardian for its Weekend podcast to discuss her ongoing Together Again tour, which is set to end in Glasgow,

The pop icon discussed the vice president’s background as part of a press campaign promoting the second leg of her Together Again tour in Europe.

"It's clear that Janet Jackson has been reading things in the dark corners of the internet and that makes me very sad," one social media user wrote.