Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich could not help but laugh at the Democratic Party’s frequent resistance against President Donald Trump, suggesting the president has “a knack” for entrapping his political opponents.
Gingrich was perplexed by Democratic lawmakers, specifically Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), going “off the deep end” in seeking to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, even after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security determined Garcia to be an MS-13 gang member. The former House speaker contended Van Hollen “never” expressed the same concern for the victims of illegal immigrants that he has given to Garcia, adding that he has never seen Democratic lawmakers “this deranged.”
“I mean, if you watch them, it’s like they’re looking around trying to find the weirdest, strangest things they can be for,” Gingrich argued on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. “They’re out there, you know [saying], ‘Give me a chance to be for males playing in girls’ sports. Give me a chance to be for the most radical position on illegal immigration. Give me a chance to go out there and stand firmly for a whole series of ideas that nobody else in America wants.’ I mean, this is really remarkable, and it’s almost like the party has lost its head.”
Gingrich proceeded to claim that Trump is “probably” the best politician serving in the United States at getting his opponents “totally screwed up,” adding, “I don’t know how he does it.” He pitched a hypothetical scenario where Trump decides, “Oh gee, I think I’ll tweet something that guarantees they’ll be crazy.” Gingrich noted that Trump’s opponents tend to do just that: “Four times out of five, it works.”
“This is worse than Lucy with the football in Peanuts, remember, and she used to pull the football at the last minute?” Gingrich stated, referring to a recurring joke in Charlie Brown television specials. “This is embarrassingly bad, and they don’t seem to be able to get a grip on themselves.”
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The former speaker concluded by jokingly speculating that Democratic lawmakers are congregating with “a lot of alcohol” and commending Van Hollen for making “a fool of yourself,” as he could not determine any other reason for the party’s current “level of insanity.”
Gingrich is not the only one poking fun at Van Hollen’s attention to Abrego Garcia, as Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) joked that he changed the senator’s office plaque to state he now represents El Salvador rather than the state of Maryland. Trump has also rebuked Van Hollen’s visits, calling the senator a “fool” who is “begging for attention.”