Home Speaker Mike Johnson’s fealty to President Donald Trump maybe isn’t embarrassing sufficient.
Now he’s giving his critics one thing else to chew on ― a wince-inducing stab at attempting to be cool on Katie Miller’s podcast. (Watch the video beneath.)
In a preview shared Monday by Miller ― a former Trump administration spokesperson who’s married to White Home deputy chief of employees Stephen Miller ― she requested Johnson, “You know who Jelly Roll is?”
Johnson might need gone with a easy affirmative. As a substitute, the Louisiana Republican indignantly stated, “Do I know,” and waved a Hawaiian “shaka,” or “hang loose,” signal with simply the thumbs and pinkies prolonged. (One in every of his fingers, nonetheless, had three fingers up.)
“Yes, we have selfies together,” Johnson continued, referring to a photograph Johnson took with the rapper-singer and Child Rock at a UFC occasion in November 2024.
Johnson’s achingly cringe second ought to come as no shock. The terminally unhip lawmaker joined the right-wing echo chamber in criticizing the NFL’s alternative of Unhealthy Bunny for the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
His thought for an alternate?
“In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that,” he stated.
Greenwood, 83, is probably finest identified as of late for enjoying “God Bless the U.S.A.” at occasions for Trump.
Johnson was joined within the interview by his spouse, Kelly, who in a snippet held forth on how males’s brains are like “waffles” with “little compartments.”
