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

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz released a YouTube video connected Thursday talking astir food, music, and their hopes for the aboriginal of America if they triumph the predetermination against convicted felon Donald Trump successful November. But 1 portion of the Harris-Walz speech has been singled retired by the weirdest Trump supporters online arsenic being racist against achromatic people. Specifically, right-wingers are precise upset Walz made jokes astir however helium can’t grip overmuch spiciness successful his food.

The afloat 10-minute YouTube video, which was made into a shorter clip astir tacos connected X, seems innocuous enough.

Walz: I person achromatic feline tacos and…

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

Walz: Pretty overmuch crushed beef and food and…

Harris: That’s okay. Do you enactment immoderate spirit successful it?

Walz: Uh, no.

Harris: Oh.

Walz: Here’s the deal. No, they said to beryllium cautious and fto her cognize this, that achromatic capsicum is the apical of the spice level successful Minnesota.

Listen, I’m conscionable not overmuch of a spice guy. pic.twitter.com/u9yadJBMh2

— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) August 15, 2024

But if you’ve been pursuing the implicit meltdown from Trump supporters connected Friday, it wasn’t conscionable an innocuous infinitesimal showing a feline from Minnesota poking amusive astatine his ain intolerance to spicy foods. It was thing acold much sinister.

Far-right influencer Ben Shapiro quote-tweeted the clip with, “See, folks, it’s comic that achromatic radical hatred spices! Not racist astatine all! Just funny!” Shapiro past followed it up with, “(FACT CHECK: Europeans liked spices truthful overmuch that they virtually got progressive successful respective 100 years of warfare successful bid to find power of the spice trade.)”

See, folks, it's comic that achromatic radical hatred spices! Not racist astatine all! Just funny!

(FACT CHECK: Europeans liked spices truthful overmuch that they virtually got progressive successful respective 100 years of warfare successful bid to find power of the spice trade.) https://t.co/97FfVoiavx

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 16, 2024

Hateful anti-trans bigot Matt Walsh besides got successful connected the enactment by hilariously insisting that this was a unspeakable racist infinitesimal for the Harris campaign.

“Crazy that a statesmanlike campaigner tin conscionable casually fto retired immoderate blatant anti-white racism and cipher cares,” Walsh wrote Friday. “Imagine if Donald Trump said that a ‘black feline taco’ was made with fried chickenhearted and watermelon. Nuclear meltdown.”

Crazy that a statesmanlike campaigner tin conscionable casually fto retired immoderate blatant anti-white racism and cipher cares. Imagine if Donald Trump said that a “black feline taco” was made with fried chickenhearted and watermelon. Nuclear meltdown. https://t.co/wIhu7xQ06A

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 16, 2024

Even erstwhile it’s conscionable a achromatic feline poking amusive astatine himself and his nutrient tolerances, guys similar Walsh and Shapiro are acceptable to outcry “racism” arsenic though it proves immoderate expansive point. But it makes consciousness that Trump supporters volition effort to marque everything astir expected anti-white racism. Remember erstwhile Vice Presidential campaigner JD Vance, a feline who has ne'er had sex with a couch, tried to accidental astatine a caller rally that his liking Diet Mountain Dew mightiness get him accused of racism? It’s inactive not wide what helium meant by that.

But the funniest twist successful Friday’s cries of “racism” mightiness beryllium the Hotdish Truthers. Because Walz said helium didn’t truly usage spices successful his tacos, immoderate of the dimmest online sleuths person been digging up his aged recipes to beryllium that helium does really usage seasonings.

Dustin Grage, who describes himself connected X arsenic a “Minnesota GOP Hype Man” took contented with Walz’s look for turkey taco hotdish. The word “hotdish,” which should beryllium noted for radical who’ve ne'er lived successful the Upper Midwest, refers to a baked casserole that typically contains immoderate meat, a starch similar atom oregon pasta, immoderate canned rootlike mix, and thing similar pick of mushroom soup. Hotdish is not known for being spicy astatine all.

“Tim Walz’s Turkey Taco Hotdish recipe. Yes, he’s adjacent lying astir spices,” Grage wrote connected Friday. The look screenshot includes things similar “mild greenish chiles” and “chili powder,” seemingly damning grounds that Walz tin grip spice. In fact, those are not spicy, arsenic anyone with 2 encephalon cells to hitch unneurotic tin archer you.

Tim Walz’s Turkey Taco Hotdish recipe.

Yes, he’s adjacent lying astir spices. https://t.co/tbnzZMtbsn pic.twitter.com/mU2545CE3K

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) August 16, 2024

Far-right conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich tried to marque a akin constituent by digging up a look by Walz from 2016, insisting that, “Walz is lying astir however radical successful Minnesota don’t play their food.” The apical remark to Cernovich’s tweet makes the evident point, “mild greenish chilies and bulb powders is not truly breaking the tone of his skit.”

Geezus. On a hunch I thought. Hmmm I wonderment if Tim Walz is lying astir however radical successful Minnesota don’t play their food.

He won a look contention successful 2016. pic.twitter.com/O4NtmcK9UP

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 16, 2024

The meltdown wasn’t conscionable connected societal media. Folks connected Fox News are besides precise upset, with the co-host of Fox & Friends, Will Cain, getting very angry that Harris would person immoderate benignant of assertion implicit what makes a bully taco.

“I mean, like, she’s dunking connected him astir tacos?” Cain said. “What is she?”

But plentifulness of mean radical besides chimed successful to poke amusive astatine the Trumpworld anger. Comedian Andy Richter joked astir the freakout connected Bluesky writing, “*I*, arsenic a achromatic guy, tin marque achromatic feline taco jokes. If you bash it, it is simply a achy reminder of astir 4 weeks of oppression.”

Part of the crushed that Trump supporters are hyper-fixating connected Walz and his tacos close present is that they don’t person immoderate different connection that resonates with voters. Trump’s docket is built connected choler and hate, focusing connected doom and gloom successful each azygous rally and his genuinely bizarre property conferences. Contrast that with Harris and Walz, who are focusing connected optimism and a shared anticipation for the future. That’s astir apt wherefore Harris has been surging ever since Joe Biden dropped retired of the contention arsenic the Democratic nominee, with cardinal polls showing Harris overtaking Trump successful cardinal battleground states.

In fact, FiveThirtyEight’s polling mean presently has Harris up 2.6 points nationally, and that’s earlier the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago adjacent week. The conventions typically manus immoderate fixed enactment a bully impermanent bump up, thing that didn’t hap for Trump aft the Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee.

With conscionable 81 days until Election Day, cipher knows who’s going to win. But Harris and Walz person taken the pb successful astir nationalist polling and the Trump campy is going to propulsion each nasty happening they tin astatine the absorption successful bid to spot that neo-fascist asshole instrumentality powerfulness again. And erstwhile they’re debating the “racism” of a achromatic feline joking astir his mild tacos, it becomes beauteous wide they’ve got thing else.