Right now, one of the top trending topics on Twitter is about how Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is a tool.
The hashtag, #MattGaetzIsATool, was launched this morning by the executive producer of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Andy Lassner, who tweeted “Please don’t try and make this hashtag trend. Thank you.”
Lassner’s tweet comes a couple days after the NBC employee wrote “What a tool” on a retweeted image of Gaetz sitting next to President Trump at Game 5 of the World Series. Gaetz then suggested that the network shouldn’t stand behind employees who make such a “dumb/triggered/profane comment."
Well, it would now appear that Lassner is doubling down.
Gaetz, who is actually a seasoned veteran of getting roasted online and was just recently referred to as a “fool” by former Tampa Bay GOP lawmaker David Jolly, responded to Lassner’s dig this afternoon by saying “I kinda like it,” along with a video of a shirtless man swinging a sledgehammer and the caption “I came in like a wrecking ball.”
I kinda like it… pic.twitter.com/Zydz5sDmFb
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 29, 2019
While the accompanying video doesn’t really make much sense, it certainly raises the possibility that perhaps Gaetz doesn’t know what a wrecking ball looks like, or even worse, that the 37-year-old District 1 congressman has never seen a literal tool in his lifetime.
So far, the hashtag is still going strong, and other celebrities have also joined in, including “Scrubs” star Zack Braff, and Kristen Johnston from the CBS sitcom “Mom.”
Gaetz is up for re-election in 2020, and his Democratic opponent is U.S. Navy Veteran Phil Ehr.
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This article appears in Oct 24-31, 2019.