Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has provoked a backlash by assuring his fellow Democrats that they can take comfort in the knowledge that President Donald Trump will eventually die.
A CNN commentator called Walz a “complete piece of ****” for publicly musing about the president suffering an untimely death.
During a broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” commentator Scott Jennings ripped Walz’s remarks as “absolutely crazy.”
Jennings argues that such comments should be beneath a public official.
“I used to say he was the biggest buffoon in American politics, but it’s worse now,” Jennings said.
“No political official, no elected official should be walking around saying, well, I’m hoping we wake up one day and the president of the United States has died.
“Crazy. absolutely crazy.”
Jennings was reacting to Walz’s indulging false hopes of Trump’s demise that swept the Left during the Labor Day weekend.
False rumors had spread online that Trump had died.
However, the fake claims were quickly debunked.
After the rumors were shut down, Walz reminded his fellow Democrats, with a wink and a nudge, that the president will someday meet the fate of all mortals.
“You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things, and although I will say this, you woke up the last few days thinking there might be news,” Walz said.
“Just saying, just saying.
“There will be news sometime, just so you know.
“There will be news,” he added.
The comments quickly triggered a backlash.
GOP House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), who represents Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, posted on X:
“@Tim_Walz, mocking President Trump’s health is a new low, even for you.
“Wishing ill on others doesn’t make you a leader—it makes you small. Minnesotans deserve better.”
Popular pro-Trump account Johnny MAGA noted that Walz’s morbid commentary came just after children were massacred at a Catholic school in the state that the Democrat governor runs.
“Tim Walz tells supporters to remain hopeful that Trump will die soon,” Johnny MAGA posted on X.
“Schoolchildren were just shot in church last week in Tim’s state — and this is what he’s thinking about I can’t even put into words how disgusting this deranged freak is.”
Walz became nationally known as the running mate to failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who lost decisively to Trump in last year’s presidential race.
At the time, Walz was widely portrayed in the liberal media as an affable, folksy Midwesterner, but his policy record and strange, bug-eyed mannerisms were indicative of a thinly veiled radical.
His wife, Gwen Walz, infamously admitted to savoring the smell of burning tires during the George Floyd riots that erupted on her husband’s watch five summers ago.
Walz’s latest troubling remarks are another reminder of the violent rage that lurks behind the mask of smiley, progressive “empathy.”
It’s a stark reminder of how America could look today had the 2024 election turned out differently.
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