Things got extremely entertaining on Sunday, May 11, when far-left Minnesota governor and failed 2024 vice presidential candidate Tim Walz went out on a publicized fishing expedition and made an utter fool of himself while struggling with his rod, leading to some no-holds-barred mockery from a flotilla of local fishermen.
The incident occurred during the 77th Governor’s Fishing Opener on Sunday, during a moment when Gov. Walz appeared to have a fish on the line. Instead of just reeling it in normally, the much-detested governor was fiddling with his rod and seemingly struggling quite a bit to reel the fish in, which is what led to the mockery.
As he fiddled with his rod, the hecklers, who had a megaphone and used it despite being just yards away from Walz, did everything from mock him for his connections to China to rolling through their Trump impressions while jibing him and claiming he had even poured “minnows out of a bucket” into the lake so he could pretend to have a fish on the line.
Further, as he kept messing with his rod instead of just reeling in the fish, one heckler shouted, in an impression of Trump’s voice, “The instructions were on the bottom!” One of that heckler’s compatriots in the flotilla then joined in and shouted that he couldn’t read those instructions “’cause they’re in Chinese.”
The impersonator, chiming back in, then said, “Well he does read Chinese! Maybe he does, I don’t know!” He added, “He loves China. China! He loves the way I said China.” That was a reference to Gov. Walz’s longtime connections to communist China, such as honeymooning there and taking numerous other trips, something many conservatives found suspicious.
Gov. Walz did not respond to the heckling with humor or with bravado. Instead, quite awkwardly, he hid his face behind his white ballcap and refused to interact with the flotilla of hecklers that sat just yards away from him, a quite embarrassing spectacle. Watch the incident here:
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The incident, along with his infamous inability to handle his shotgun while pheasant hunting, belies his claim that he was a “code talker” to the white male demographic during the 2024 campaign. Making that claim during a Harvard Kennedy School of Government speech, he said, “I also was on the ticket quite honestly, you know, because I could ‘code talk’ to white guys.”
He claimed, ridiculously, given that the demographic about which he spoke voted overwhelmingly for Trump, that those to whom he could “code talk” were those who enjoy “watching football, fixing their truck.” He further claimed, similarly, absurdly, that by “doing that, I could put them at ease.”
The governor added, “I was the permission structure to say, ‘look, you can do this and vote for this,’” He then added that the attempt was largely unsuccessful, which would be obvious to anyone who saw the reactions he got online during the campaign, or during this fishing expedition disaster. “And you look across those swing states, with the exception of Minnesota, we didn’t get enough of those votes.”
Watch him here: