Photo of Kamala Harris Draws Wave of Criticism After Going Viral Online

A picture of former Vice President Kamala Harris, reportedly snapped by her husband, former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, has sparked widespread attention online, drawing sharp criticism from many.

In the image, Harris is smiling at the camera while pouring chips into a bowl, with the caption, “Oscars watch party prep” — a clear nod to Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast.

The post quickly became the target of ridicule, with hundreds of users on X (formerly Twitter) mocking the moment.

At the same time, former Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel openly criticized his own party for obsessing over issues that everyday Americans see as irrelevant, during a conversation on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher this past Friday.

“I don’t want to hear another word about the locker room, I don’t want to hear another word about the bathroom. You better start focusing on the classroom,” Emanuel said while speaking alongside CNN host and author Fareed Zakaria.

Maher then jumped in, saying, “I read that the current mayor of Chicago has an approval rating of 6.6 percent…. What’s going on in Chicago?”

“Round it up. 7,” Emanuel joked. He then emphasized that the key to success for any city boils down to three essential priorities: “Safe streets, strong schools, stable finances. Focus on those three things and your city’s going to be fine.”

Emanuel didn’t stop there, pointing out that “the mayor of New York [is] not doing well… Obviously, other things here in Los Angeles are not doing well, the mayor here.” He added that some mayors — such as the mayor of San Francisco — are managing better, but then turned the spotlight back on his own city.

“We’ve gone through five years where people became way too permissive as a culture – which is why everything is locked up at CVS and Walgreens, and that’s a disaster,” Emanuel said.

He also drew attention to the dismal state of education, warning that “We have the worst reading scores for eighth graders in 30 years, and nobody – not a governor, not a mayor, not a president, not a secretary of education is talking about it. We’re all wrapped up,” before slamming the increasingly extreme policies embraced by his party.

Emanuel didn’t shy away from humor either, saying, “Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls’ bathroom, I would have done it.”

He closed his comments with a sobering observation: “We literally are a superpower, we’re facing off against China with 1.4 billion people and two-thirds of our children can’t read eighth grade level.”

Zakaria agreed, highlighting that in his view, far-left policies and divisive rhetoric severely hurt Democrats in the last election.

“This is a huge Democratic Party problem. If you look at Democratic cities, they are terribly run. They have incredibly high taxes, so it’s impossible to build,” Zakaria added.