In an interview for an article in the Los Angeles Blade titled “Meet the bisexual wife of Pennsylvania’s new U.S. senator,” Gisele Fetterman, Sen. Fetterman’s wife, let slip an embarrassing truth about the senator, saying, in the context of marriage, that she ignores him when he’s speaking.
That comment came when Gisele Fetterman told the Los Angeles blad that “their marriage operates with the unspoken understanding that Gisele is always right when there are differences of opinion” and that, to create a similar dynamic, women should ignore their spouses. In her words: “You just have to be really confident in your truth,” she said, adding, “then you just, like, ignore him when he’s speaking.”
Though it was about the husband-wife dynamic generally rather than what people should do when Sen. Fetterman specifically starts talking, some people thought it was funny in the context of Sen. Fetterman’s difficulty speaking after his stroke.
One poster on Twitter, for example, said, “Gisele Fetterman’s quote at the end of this article is a bit too honest.”
Gisele Fetterman’s quote at the end of this article is a bit too honest. https://t.co/YPJARpKEvt pic.twitter.com/tJDFOFYxWc
— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) March 3, 2023
Commenting on that post, one person said, “Jada Smith winning Matt Walsh’s poll for worst wife in America only happened because people don’t see how awful Gisele Fetterman truly is… she’s far and away the worst wife in America.”
TIME, reporting on Fetterman’s post-stroke language issues, said:
Five months after the Democratic nominee in one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races suffered a stroke, there’s still a lot to learn about his recovery.
In the final weeks of the Pennsylvania Senate campaign, a key Republican attack against the state’s lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, has centered on his use of closed-captioning technology, which translates audio into text on a screen in real-time. He relied on the technology during an interview conducted Friday with NBC News, his first in-person, on-camera sit-down since his stroke in May.
“I sometimes will hear things in a way that’s not perfectly clear,” Fetterman said. “So I use captioning so I’m able to see what you’re saying.”
More recently, we reported on Sen. Fetterman’s difficulty with speaking in the context of a recent Senate hearing. In that American Tribune article, we said:
Sen. John Fetterman was chairing a subcommittee hearing on Wednesday and his opening statement went predictably poorly, leading to the equally predictable savaging of him from commenters on Twitter.
Specifically, what went wrong was that Sen. Fetterman couldn’t string a sentence together and kept stumbling over his words, then proceeded to lose his train of thought. All while just trying to read a pre-written statement. Watch the incident here:
John Fetterman chaired a subcommittee hearing today.
Here is his opening statement. pic.twitter.com/Y6EHYkhkBZ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 19, 2023
And Greg Price wasn’t the only one to notice. Outkick’s Clay Travis joined in as well, posting the video of the opening statement with the caption, “John Fetterman is chairing a senate subcommittee and this was his opening statement. Good lord. This dude is not remotely well or able to do this job. Embarrassing for Pennsylvania”.
One commenter on Travis’ post pointed out that while Fetterman is bad, Feinstein is probably worse, saying, “Unreal. Sad part is, he’s probably doing better than Feinstein at the moment. What an absolute mockery of our political system that prioritizes keeping these people in power over and decent representation of their constituents. Shameful…”
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