Kamala Harris returns to the attention center with the speech criticizing Trump while celebrating his first 100 days

Former vice president Kamala Harris, who has remained largely outside the political care center since he left office, strongly criticized President Donald Trump, his opponent in the presidential elections of 2024, about tariffs, government cuts and the direction that his administration is taking the country, during Wednesday’s observations in San Francisco.

His comments, delivered in the celebration of the 20th anniversary for emerges, an organization that supports democratic women who run for a position, occurred when the Trump administration celebrates its achievements in its first 100 days, a date that Harris recognized.

“Now I know that tonight’s event coincides with 100 days after the inauguration, and I will let others give a complete accounting of what happened so far,” Harris told the audience.

“But I will say this, instead of an administration that works to advance in the highest ideals in the United States, we are witnessing the total abandonment of those ideals,” he said.

Harris has had few public appearances since he left the White House and has limited his political activity, but on Wednesday night, he called Trump by name.

“We all know President Trump, his administration and his allies have the notion that fear can be contagious. They have the notion that, if they can make some people fear, it will have a chilling effect on others,” said Harris.

“But what are overlooking, what they have overlooked is that fear is not the only thing that is contagious. The courage is contagious,” Harris told the strident cheers.

Harris had brought similar issues, including the “courage is contagious”, during the comments on a summit of leaders of color women in early April.

That courage, Harris added on Wednesday, extends to Americans who protest what she called “the best economic crisis made by man in modern presidential history.”

“Americans throughout the political spectrum declare that the reckless tariffs of the president damage workers and families by increasing the cost of daily essential elements; they devastate retirement accounts that people spend a lifetime paying; and paralyzes US companies, which forces them to leave people, stop hiring or stop investment decisions,” he said.

Trump and the White House have argued that tariffs will help Americans to be better economically in the long term and level the playing field between the United States and their commercial partners.

Later in his comments, speaking more widely about the actions of the White House, Harris said he would describe the current moment in the United States as a “high -speed event” to implement an agenda that, according to her, was “decades in creation” to reduce and privatize the government while giving tax snacks to the rich.

“It is an agenda, a narrow and selfish vision of the United States, where they punish the TAKERS, favor the loyal ones, charge their power and leave everyone to use themselves, everything while abandoning the allies and withdraw from the world,” said Harris. “And friends, what we are experiencing at this time is exactly what they imagine for the United States.”

The Americans must be ready, if the “controls and balances” such as Congress “finally collapse,” said Harris, to work together and raise their voices.

“I am not here tonight to offer all the answers, but I am here to say this, you are not alone, and we are all in this together, and they speak directly, things will probably get worse before they improve, but we are ready for that. We are not going to disperse. We will be together, all a leader,” Harris said.

At the end of his comments, Harris hit a populist note: “Remember that this country is always ours. It does not belong to whoever is in the White House. It belongs to us. It belongs to us. It belongs to us, the people.”

The former Democratic candidate for President has had few public appearances since he left the White House, and has limited his political activity.

Harris’s speech occurred when he is ready to re -enter politics in the coming months. Harris has been considering a career in the governor of California and will make a decision at the end of summer, two sources familiar with their plans to ABC News in March.

Some Democrats have also presented it as a potential presidential candidate of 2028, although some of their supporters have long told ABC News that they are torn by that perspective.

Whether it is running for an office or not, Harris’s public comments so far have sometimes included veiled and explicit landslides in the Trump administration and the president himself.

In observations at a summit of colored women’s leaders in early April, Trump intervened in the second administration of Trump, saying that “there is a sense of fear that has been strengthened in our country” but that “courage is also contagious.”

And in comments at the Naacp Image Awards in February, Harris framed the “Chapter” America is like “will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office or the richest among us. The US history will be written by you. Written by us. For us, people.”

Harris and his spouse, Doug Emhoff, have been the target of recent actions of Trump.

Trump issued a memorandum in March that revoked security authorizations and access to classified information of his previous presidential opponents, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, as well as more than a dozen former administration officials. On Tuesday, Emhoff said he had been fired from the Board of Trustees of the United States Holocaust Museum, since the White House confirmed that he had eliminated the members of the Board.

-ABC News’ Averi Harper, Zohreen Shah, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.