Tim Walz continues to light up the internet — for all the wrong reasons.
The Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate has been in a proxy war with billionaire Elon Musk over Musk’s support for former President Donald Trump — Walz effectively called Musk a “dips*** last week, as Fox News reported.
And at a campaign stop in Detroit on Friday, he sparked a storm of social media responses after he appeared to imply that Musk, a father of 12, is homosexual — and Walz was clearly insulting Musk at the time…
Walz was in the process of talking about the economy when he turned the subject to tax cuts for billionaires like Musk.
“If you’re a billionaire, Elon Musk for example, say, that gah … , that gay got …” then he snickered.
“Michigan knows that word,” he said.
“Look, that dude got a tax cut and the rest of us got shafted on the whole deal,” he said.
(The full video of the event is available here. Walz’s “gay guy” comments come about the 6:30 mark.)
Now, Walz almost certainly didn’t start out intending to call Musk “gay.” From the sound of the butchered sentence, he was trying to say “that guy got” and it came out as “that gay go…”
But his juvenile leering — along with the “Michigan knows that word” aside he tossed to the crowd — showed that once Walz committed the error, he also committed to going ahead with what he clearly meant as a slur. (To give Walz credit, he did switch the troublesome word to “dude.”)
Now, it’s safe to say that if Musk were gay, the world wouldn’t have needed Tim Walz to break the news. And it’s a damn good bet that he’s not.
Besides the dozen children he’s sired, the uber billionaire’s romantic life is the stuff of international tabloid fare (how many other guys have dated actress Amber Heard?), and it’s a better-than-even chance the news of any gay liaisons would have leaked long ago.
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