Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida is being ripped on Twitter after his comments about pro-abortion activists. Many ‘outraged’ users brought up Gaetz’s legal woes with some calling for his arrest.
“Have you watched these pro-abortion, pro-murder rallies? The people are just disgusting,” Gaetz said Saturday night during his speech to Turning Point Action Summit in Tampa, Florida. “Like, why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?
“Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.”
Gaetz called abortion activists overweight, unattractive, and very unlikely to need an abortion.
“These people are odious on the inside and out,” he continued. “They’re like 5-2, 350 pounds and they’re like ‘give me my abortions or I’ll get up and march and protest’ and I’m thinking: ‘March? You look like you got ankles weaker than the legal reasoning behind Roe v. Wade.’
“A few of them need to get up and march. They need to get up and march for like an hour a day, swing those arms, get the blood pumping, maybe mix in a salad.”
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Matt Gaetz, somehow not talking about Trump: “We welcome all retirees [in Florida], except maybe one … though he’s real rich, though he grifted off of our taxpayers and off our government and off of lies for years …” pic.twitter.com/ik4594yUut
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2022
Here are just a handful of responses the video got on Twitter—There are hundreds just like them:
-I mean i already know he is an absolute sleazeball but even i can’t believe he said that to a live audience and they CHEERED. Appalled doesn’t go far enough.”
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.