Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter was hit by a torrent of criticism for calling Tim Walz’s son “weird” in a tweet. In the wake of her comment, clips from an old roast resurfaced and went viral.
Gus Walz, 17, made headlines himself on Wednesday night when he responded to his father’s speech at the Democratic National Convention with a heartwarming reaction. The teenage son of Kamala Harris’ running mate stood up, applauded with tears in his eyes and proudly told the other attendees, “That’s my dad!”
“Speaking of weird,” Coulter wrote in response to the heartwarming moment, using Tim Walz’s favorite term to attack Donald Trump and JD Vance to insult the Minnesota governor’s son.
Coulter later deleted her post when it received angry reactions. “I deleted it immediately when someone told me it was (autistic), but it’s the Democrats who go around calling everyone weird and think it’s incredibly funny,” she explained. Tim Walz and his wife Gwen told People This month, The 40 Fingers magazine reported that Gus was diagnosed with nonverbal learning disorder, anxiety disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a teenager.
Coulter did not directly apologize for her post, but wrote in a follow-up on Thursday that she was on vacation and did not feel pressured to delete her original tweet. “The Democrats are the ones who decided it’s OK to call people ‘weird,'” she added.
Some social media users decided to take revenge on Gus’ name by sharing clips online from the infamous 2016 Comedy Central Roast by Rob Lowe, some of them went viralCoulter was one of the celebrities who had been invited to the show, which was nominally about the West Wing Although the actor was not particularly successful, this was actually more of a mockery of Coulter himself.
Comedian Pete Davidson used his time at the roast to call her a “racist bitch” and compared her to a member of the Ku Klux Klan. British comedian Jimmy Carr called Coulter “one of the most disgusting, hateful, sleazy bitches in the world” and said she looked like “a transvestite trucker whore.”
“Ann Coulter hopes the Republicans can keep the House so she can keep causing trouble,” joked David Spade, while former NFL star Peyton Manning also insulted Coulter’s performance by saying she “won the Kentucky Derby.”
“As a feminist, I can’t support everything that’s being said here tonight,” said singer Jewel. “But as someone who hates Ann Coulter, I’m happy about it!”
Coulter’s evening didn’t get much better when it was her turn to dish it out. “I want to invite everyone to Ann Coulter Roast with Rob Lowe”, she said in her first – and probably strongest – sentence. From there, things went badly, the crowd booed as she tried to sell her book We trust in Trump: E Pluribus, great!
“Ann, after your performance tonight, we all witnessed the first bombing that cannot be blamed on a Muslim,” Lowe said afterwards.
Coulter later told The Hollywood Reporter She had “no idea” how she got invited to the show, saying it simply “came up in my promotional schedule for the book.” When asked about the mean jokes people had made about her, Coulter said, “‘Meanness’ doesn’t jump out at me, but ‘jokes’ do jump out at me, and I didn’t hear many of those – until I picked up the microphone!”
Coulter told the Daily Beast in an email, “I removed it as soon as someone told me he was autistic.” “But it’s the Democrats who find it hilarious to call everyone ‘weird.’ JD Vance grew up with a drug-addicted mother and no father.”
“Do you regret calling him weird? Maybe they shouldn’t have made that hilarious joke,” she added.
