Utah Rep. Chris Stewart laughed as he looked at the tweet on his phone.
The message: “You suck.”
“That’s from my mom,” the congressman said with a smile. He was only kidding.
In a rip from the popular “Jimmy Kimmel” segment where celebrities read mean tweets about themselves, Stewart was actually responding to a couple of harsh messages constituents posted about him on social media.
Among the messages in the two-minutes video posted Thursday? “You’re a roach.” “Shut your cakehole.” “Do you care about the Constitution at all?”
One person said Stewart was “not only a whore accepting blood money but a cheap whore to boot.”
“Now look,” he responded, “you can call me a whore, but, dude, you cannot call me cheap.”
At the end of the video, the representative jokes that it’s all “part of the American dialogue.”
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