Why Trump Supporters Are Freaking Out About Tim Walz’s Tacos

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz launched a YouTube video on Thursday speaking about meals, music, and their hopes for the way forward for America in the event that they win the election towards convicted felon Donald Trump in November. However one a part of the Harris-Walz dialog has been singled out by the weirdest Trump supporters on-line as being racist towards white individuals. Particularly, right-wingers are very upset Walz made jokes about how he can’t deal with a lot spiciness in his meals.

The complete 10-minute YouTube video, which was made right into a shorter clip about tacos on X, appears innocuous sufficient.

Walz: I’ve white man tacos and…

Harris: What does that imply, like, mayonnaise and tuna? What do you do?

Walz: Just about floor beef and cheese and…

Harris: That’s okay. Do you set any taste in it?

Walz: Uh, no.

Harris: Oh.

Walz: Right here’s the deal. No, they stated to watch out and let her know this, that black pepper is the highest of the spice stage in Minnesota.

Pay attention, I’m simply not a lot of a spice man. pic.twitter.com/u9yadJBMh2

— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) August 15, 2024

However in case you’ve been following the entire meltdown from Trump supporters on Friday, it wasn’t simply an innocuous second exhibiting a man from Minnesota poking enjoyable at his personal intolerance to spicy meals. It was one thing way more sinister.

Far-right influencer Ben Shapiro quote-tweeted the clip with, “See, people, it’s humorous that white individuals hate spices! Not racist in any respect! Simply humorous!” Shapiro then adopted it up with, “(FACT CHECK: Europeans favored spices a lot that they actually obtained concerned in a number of hundred years of struggle in an effort to decide management of the spice commerce.)”

See, people, it is humorous that white individuals hate spices! Not racist in any respect! Simply humorous!

(FACT CHECK: Europeans favored spices a lot that they actually obtained concerned in a number of hundred years of struggle in an effort to decide management of the spice commerce.) https://t.co/97FfVoiavx

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 16, 2024

Hateful anti-trans bigot Matt Walsh additionally obtained in on the motion by hilariously insisting that this was a horrible racist second for the Harris marketing campaign.

“Loopy {that a} presidential candidate can simply casually let loose some blatant anti-white racism and no one cares,” Walsh wrote Friday. “Think about if Donald Trump stated {that a} ‘black man taco’ was made with fried rooster and watermelon. Nuclear meltdown.”

Loopy {that a} presidential candidate can simply casually let loose some blatant anti-white racism and no one cares. Think about if Donald Trump stated {that a} “black man taco” was made with fried rooster and watermelon. Nuclear meltdown. https://t.co/wIhu7xQ06A

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 16, 2024

Even when it’s only a white man poking enjoyable at himself and his meals tolerances, guys like Walsh and Shapiro are able to cry “racism” as if it proves some grand level. Nevertheless it is sensible that Trump supporters will attempt to make all the things about supposed anti-white racism. Bear in mind when Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, a man who has by no means had sex with a couch, tried to say at a current rally that his liking Weight loss program Mountain Dew may get him accused of racism? It’s nonetheless not clear what he meant by that.

However the funniest twist in Friday’s cries of “racism” is perhaps the Hotdish Truthers. As a result of Walz stated he didn’t actually use spices in his tacos, among the dimmest on-line sleuths have been digging up his previous recipes to show that he does truly use seasonings.

Dustin Grage, who describes himself on X as a “Minnesota GOP Hype Man” took situation with Walz’s recipe for turkey taco hotdish. The time period “hotdish,” which must be famous for individuals who’ve by no means lived within the Higher Midwest, refers to a baked casserole that usually accommodates some meat, a starch like rice or pasta, some canned vegetable combine, and one thing like cream of mushroom soup. Hotdish just isn’t recognized for being spicy in any respect.

“Tim Walz’s Turkey Taco Hotdish recipe. Sure, he’s even mendacity about spices,” Grage wrote on Friday. The recipe screenshot contains issues like “gentle inexperienced chiles” and “chili powder,” apparently damning proof that Walz can deal with spice. Actually, these aren’t spicy, as anybody with two mind cells to rub collectively can inform you.

Tim Walz’s Turkey Taco Hotdish recipe.

Sure, he’s even mendacity about spices. https://t.co/tbnzZMtbsn pic.twitter.com/mU2545CE3K

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) August 16, 2024

Far-right conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich tried to make an analogous level by digging up a recipe by Walz from 2016, insisting that, “Walz is mendacity about how individuals in Minnesota don’t season their meals.” The highest remark to Cernovich’s tweet makes the plain level, “gentle inexperienced chilies and onion powders just isn’t actually breaking the spirit of his skit.”

Geezus. On a hunch I assumed. Hmmm I ponder if Tim Walz is mendacity about how individuals in Minnesota don’t season their meals.

He received a recipe contest in 2016. pic.twitter.com/O4NtmcK9UP

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 16, 2024

The meltdown wasn’t simply on social media. Of us on Fox Information are additionally very upset, with the co-host of Fox & Pals, Will Cain, getting very angry that Harris would have any type of declare over what makes an excellent taco.

“I imply, like, she’s dunking on him about tacos?” Cain stated. “What’s she?”

However loads of regular individuals additionally chimed in to poke enjoyable on the Trumpworld anger. Comic Andy Richter joked in regards to the freakout on Bluesky writing, “*I*, as a white man, could make white man taco jokes. If you happen to do it, it’s a painful reminder of just about 4 weeks of oppression.”

A part of the explanation that Trump supporters are hyper-fixating on Walz and his tacos proper now could be that they don’t have another message that resonates with voters. Trump’s agenda is constructed on anger and hate, specializing in doom and gloom in each single rally and his actually weird press conferences. Distinction that with Harris and Walz, who’re specializing in optimism and a shared hope for the longer term. That’s in all probability why Harris has been surging ever since Joe Biden dropped out of the race as the Democratic nominee, with key polls exhibiting Harris overtaking Trump in key battleground states.

Actually, FiveThirtyEight’s polling common presently has Harris up 2.6 points nationally, and that’s earlier than the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago subsequent week. The conventions usually hand any given occasion a pleasant momentary bump up, one thing that didn’t occur for Trump after the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee.

With simply 81 days till Election Day, no one is aware of who’s going to win. However Harris and Walz have taken the lead in most nationwide polling and the Trump camp goes to throw each nasty factor they will on the opposition in an effort to see that neo-fascist asshole take energy once more. And after they’re debating the “racism” of a white man joking about his gentle tacos, it turns into fairly clear they’ve obtained nothing else.