The two words Trump said to Kamala in her shambolic concession call that left aide fuming ‘He’s a sociopath’

Vice President Kamala Harris’ phone call to President-elect Donald Trump to concede the 2024 election was always going to be an awkward one. 

But author Chris Whipple in his forthcoming book – Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History – reveals stunning new details about just how painful the conversation actually was. 

The call went sideways, both in its setup and what Trump said to Harris, leading one of her top aides to think: ‘He’s a sociopath.’ 

Harris waited to call Trump until the day after the election, with the chat being set up at the vice president’s Naval Observatory home in Washington D.C. by her campaign Chief of Staff Sheila Nix, and her White House Chief of Staff Lorraine Voles. 

‘Nix called the president-elect on her cell phone – but for some reason couldn’t merge the call with the vice president’s phone,’ Whipple wrote. ‘So Voles called Harris on hers – and she and Nix pressed the phones together.’

Voles then informed Trump: ‘The vice president is on the line.’ 

‘Harris respectfully addressed the man she’d called a fascist and an existential threat to democracy,’ Whipple continued. 

The vice president, who had been thrust to the top of the Democratic ticket in late July, ‘felt the weight of the crushing defeat,’ he described. 

Former Vice President Kamala Harris during a phone banking event on Election Day. A day later she would have to make an extraordinarily uncomfortable phone call: conceding the election to President Donald Trump 

President-elect Donald Trump addressed supporters in the early hours of November 6, 2024 after clinching victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris would concede to Trump by phone several hours later 

‘But unlike Trump four years earlier, she was respecting the election result,’ Whipple noted. 

Harris told Trump on the call: ‘I’m calling to concede. It was a fair election. The peaceful transfer of power is important. It’s important to the country.’ 

‘And then she added, pointedly, “I hope you’re a president for all Americans,”‘ Whipple wrote. 

But it’s how Trump reacted to Harris’ concession that raised eyebrows. 

‘If Trump detected any edge to that remark he didn’t show it. In fact, the president-elect was weirdly cordial and complimentary – bantering as though he were on the golf course,’ Whipple wrote. 

Trump told Harris that she was ‘great.’

‘You’re a tough cookie. You were really great. And that Doug – what a character! I love that guy,’ the now-president reportedly said of his rival’s husband Doug Emhoff. 

One of Harris’ aides, Whipple wrote, found this ‘odd and inappropriate. ‘I was like, what?’ she recalled. ‘Honestly, I felt like, what is this? It’s so manipulative. He’s a sociopath.’ 

Vice President Kamala Harris gives her concession speech to supporters on the campus of her alma mater, Howard University in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 

Her husband Doug Emhoff (left) consoles his daughter Ella Emhoff (right) at the Howard University speech. During Harris’ call with Trump, the president-elect referred to her husband as ‘a character’ 

Whipple’s book, which will be released on Tuesday, also got into why Harris lost. 

One of her biggest political issues was that she wouldn’t separate herself from President Joe Biden. 

It was a ‘change’ election but to a majority of voters it was Trump, not Harris, who represented change. 

Whipple wrote that Voles had gone to the White House to meet with Biden’s Chief of Staff Jeff Zients to ‘in effect, ask him for permission’ for the Democratic nominee to break with her boss. 

‘As one aide put it, “to say, you know, she’s got to do this because we’ve got to win”. And they were all like, “Yeah, do whatever you have to f***ing do to win!”‘ Whipple wrote. 

‘Not only had Zients given the Harris team his blessing, but in a phone call Biden himself told Harris that she should do whatever she had to do, say whatever she wanted to say – his feelings wouldn’t be hurt,’ the author revealed. 

But Harris could never fully pull the trigger as a candidate. 

One member of her inner circle told the author ‘there was a hesitancy on her part.’

‘A big, big piece of who Kamala Harris is, is loyal,’ the source said. ‘The reason she’s in this position is Joe Biden picked her as vice president and he elevated her after he dropped out.’

‘And so there is an element of, like, you dance with the person who brought you,’ the source said.  

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