Things got very entertaining during a press conference given by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as the Schumer Shutdown entered its third week, with a woke reporter who was freaking out over a meme released by President Trump on his Truth Social account getting hilariously shut down by the Speaker of the House.
As background, the meme released by the president was a short, AI clip that shows him wearing a golden king’s crown while flying a fighter jet, as “Danger Zone,” the hugely popular song of Top Gun fame, plays. The president’s jet then dumps a brown slurry, presumably sewage, on a collection of “No Kings” protesters below.
Pressing Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) on that during his press conference, an angry reporter asked, “Speaker Johnson, you say that the Democrats had a ‘Hate America’ rally, but what does it say that the President of the United States, over the weekend, released a video of him pooping on the American people?”
Responding with an entertainingly lengthy answer to an asinine question, the Speaker first noted that President Trump is a maestro with his social media accounts, saying, “The President uses social media to make the point. You can argue he’s probably the most effective person who’s ever used social media for that he is, he is using satire to make a point.”
Continuing, Speaker Johnson entertainingly contrasted Trump’s joke with the horrid rhetoric of the violent, radical left, saying, “He is not calling for the murder of his political opponents, and that’s what these people are doing. I mean, they’re in one of these photos. I think there’s a picture of the president hanging in effigy by a noose on one of these it’s, it’s unconscionable.”
Further hammering the radical left for its violent rhetoric against a president who has already faced multiple assassination threats, Speaker Johnson said, “Look, we, America is built on the idea of free speech. You have the right to protest. Of course, we jealously guard that. I mean, Chip and I are attorneys. We’ve defended that right in the courts. But, but what they’re, what they’re doing right now, is different that. I mean, they are trying to incite violence. This is, it’s not funny. You don’t mock a president who has already had two failed assassination attempts on his life. This is not a game, and the idea that communists would be supporting this is unconscionable to us.”
Then, ripping into atheistic Marxism, he said, “But when we when we give tours of the House chamber, and we bring in constituents, and we point out all the historical facts and images around the building. We always start, I always start with, ‘In God we trust,’ which, of course, is right above the roster of the speaker’s podium . . .it was put there in the early 60s . . . Congress voted to put that there is rebuke to the Cold War era Soviets. Why? Because of their philosophy, that’s what it says, rebuke to their philosophy. Their philosophy was Marxism. Marxism begins with the premise that there is no God. It is. It is antithetical to who we are as Americans. The Declaration of Independence says we’re created by God, and he’s the one who gave us our rights. It is in God whom we trust. That is the national motto. That’s what America is built on.”
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Adding to that as a way of ripping into the “No Kings” type protests, and those in them, as “un-American,” Speaker Johnson said, “What those people are advocating for is, at its essence, un-American. And when they go the next step and they call for violence on political officials in an environment that is already it’s already a heightened threat environment. It’s dangerous stuff. They had the right to do it. Congratulations. They didn’t burn any buildings down.”
Concluding, the Speaker roasted the left with a very entertaining joke at its expense, snapping, “That’s a big achievement for the left that have some kind of gathering where they don’t have a looting and riots and burn a building down. There was, I think, some in Portland. They threw bottles and bricks and stuff at the ICE facility, because that’s what they do for fun now out there, but, you know, they had a free speech event, congratulations. But you need to look past that and look at what it is they’re advocating for openly, and it’s really scary.”
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Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video