Minnesota First Lady Gwen Waltz's campaign speech featured her using wild hand gestures to say “goodbye” and “turn the page” about former President Trump, energizing her Wisconsin audience but causing offense elsewhere.
Gwen Waltz was slammed as a “living embodiment of Trump Madness Syndrome” during a campaign speech in Wisconsin on Saturday for her husband, Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz, and Vice President Kamala Harris.
In her speech, Gwen Waltz cited Harris' performance at last week's debate, where she repeatedly said the election was a time to “change” the current political landscape.
“I'm sure you all watched the other debate. Oh, that was amazing. And Kamala Harris told us that we need to turn the page, because yes, we have some really exciting things heading our way,” Gwen Waltz said.
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Minnesota First Lady Gwen Waltz speaks in Wisconsin. (Fox News)
“But I kind of like the way she did this,” the Minnesota first lady continued, mimicking turning the pages of a book, “turning the pages.”
Gwen Waltz then invited the audience to join her in pantomiming turning a page, declaring that Democrats have “52 days to turn the page” on Trump's rise to the White House.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff stand on the Truman Balcony at the White House on July 4, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“You know what else that feels like?” Waltz asked, waving her arms. “Goodbye. Goodbye Donald Trump,” she yelled.
“We are turning a new page,” she added.
The Minnesota riots continued even after Walz took “responsibility” to stop chaos from happening.
Critics were quick to slam Gwen Waltz and her speech, calling it “embarrassing” and “1,000 times worse than Hillary Clinton's.”
Gwen Waltz is a Minnesota teacher who met her husband while they were both working as educators in the 1990s. She has served as Minnesota's first lady since 2019, when Tim Waltz became governor.
Gwen Waltz previously made headlines on social media after a video was unearthed in which she spoke about her response to the 2020 Minnesota riots.
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“We had another sleepless night during the riots,” Waltz's wife told KSTP in July 2020. “We could smell the tires burning and it was real. We had the windows down for as long as we could because we felt that was a test of what was going on.”
At the time, critics and conservatives on social media slammed the remarks as “bizarre.”
Protesters protest in front of a building that was set on fire during demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 29, 2020. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
“What do you call this? Bizarre? Unusual? Strange? Unconventional? Bizarre?” wrote Noah Rothman, a senior writer for National Review Online. “It must be a description of the cathartic delight one gets from burning down other people's property.”
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Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk Comment explained “That's strange.”
The Harris-Waltz campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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