Donald Trump recently sat down with Greg Gutfeld, and things got… entertaining, to say the least. It all started when Trump shared a rather unusual story about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who’s now the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential candidate. Apparently, Trump had just one real conversation with Walz during the chaos of the George Floyd riots in 2020. And, boy, did Walz sound rattled.
“Walz is a strange dude,” Gutfeld remarked, and when Trump agreed, Gutfeld continued, “Him and I are the same age. How does he look so much younger?”
During the Wednesday night appearance on Gutfeld!, Trump laid out the scene: Walz, apparently terrified, called him from his home, which was surrounded by people—MAGA supporters, as it turns out—waving American flags. That’s right. The governor of Minnesota was freaked out by a bunch of Americans holding the very symbol of their country. Now, let’s pause and think about that. A sitting governor calls up the President, not because the crowd’s armed or throwing Molotov cocktails, but because they’re proudly displaying Old Glory. The nerve!
“He’s a strange guy,” Trump repeated. “You know, he called up years ago, I was in the White House, and he said, ‘My house is being surrounded by people with American flags.’ I said, ‘Is that a good thing or a bad thing?’”
Walz responded to Trump, ‘I think they’re going to attack me,’” Trump continued to say. “This was during the riots and everything else. They were MAGA people, you know, they like the American flag, all right. And they also like Trump — I said, ‘How do you know?’ … he said, ‘Could you put out a word like that I’m your friend?’”
Walz, desperate for a lifeline, asked Trump to throw out a nice word, maybe tweet that they were friends or something. Now, Trump, being Trump, admits he barely knew the guy but still tossed out a friendly message. Why? Because, believe it or not, he didn’t want Walz to get hurt. So, Trump sent out a tweet saying something like, “Hey, this guy’s alright, he’s on our side.” And just like that, the flag-waving crowd dispersed like they’d just gotten marching orders from the big boss himself. “A miracle,” Walz reportedly called it.
”I don’t even know him,” Trump said then, admitting that he had posted something nice about Walz then anyway just because he didn’t want to see anything bad happen to him.
“And if you look back long ago …” Trump said he had tweeted something about Walz being a good guy. “‘He’s a good man, the governor, he’s on our side,’ I don’t know him, but I didn’t want him to get hurt. And everybody put down their flags, and they left, and he said it was a miracle. I didn’t want him to get hurt.”
But let’s not miss the punchline here. Walz, the man who’d later go on to represent the same Democratic Party that’s constantly trying to tear down everything American, was scared of a crowd holding American flags. The symbolism is too good to ignore. Gutfeld summed it up best when he joked, “Scared by the American flag.” You can’t make this stuff up.
President Trump says that the only time he has ever spoken to Timothy Walz was when he became scared when a group of protesters with American flags surrounded the Minnesota Governor’s mansion and asked President Trump to save him.😂 pic.twitter.com/cWHHVgDbBe
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 19, 2024
Trump assured Walz that as long as the American flag was involved, violence was not on the agenda. But Walz, clearly out of his element, still couldn’t shake the fear.
