Tim Walz has hit back at Donald Trump, whose Truth Social post on Thanksgiving was described as “hurtful” by the Governor of Minnesota.
The president would call Walz “seriously retarded” in a Truth Social rant, and Walz has since described the comment as “hurtful” to communities that had worked hard to eradicate the word from society. Speaking to NBC’s Meet the Press, Walz shared that it was not only horrible behavior from Trump, but that it highlighted the president is “just not a good human”.
He said, “I think we all know using that term is just so damaging. It’s hurtful. We have fought three decades to get this out of our schools, and kids know better than to use it.”
“But this is what Donald Trump has done, he’s normalized this type of hateful behavior… at first I think he’s just not a good human being but secondly to distract from his incompetency.”
Walz’s comments on Trump’s language come a week after the president claimed Minnesota had become a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity” in recent years, NOTUS reported.
Trump posted on November 21, “Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity. Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!”
“The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both.” Walz would respond to the post at the time, too, issuing a four-word statement a day later. He wrote on X, “Release the MRI results.”
Trump received an MRI scan earlier this year, the results of which are yet to be released. The president has claimed, however, that he received a positive bill of health from physicians who gave him his check-up. The scan took place on Trump’s visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in October.
He said at the time, “I did. I got an MRI. It was perfect. The doctor said [it] was some of the best reports, for the age, they’ve ever seen.” When asked why he received an MRI scan, Trump told reporters to “ask the doctors”.
The president’s comments aimed at Governor Walz could come back to haunt him, with a GOP strategist believing Trump’s language is “indefensible” and may cause further splits in the Republican base.
Joseph Moreno, a former federal prosecutor, said, “…when you see something like this, which is absolutely indefensible, and you’re sitting at the Thanksgiving table, and your family and friends say, ‘How can you possibly support an administration that comes out with messages like this?’ It’s not easy.
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