Matt Gaetz slams 2 Fox News hosts for over-sexualizing AOC and joking that he might divorce his wife and marry her instead
Rep. Matt Gaetz slammed two hosts on “The Five,” a Fox News talk show, for making jokes about him and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and over-sexualizing his Democratic colleague.
A GOP congressman said Gaetz got ‘schooled by AOC’ when he ousted McCarthy: ‘I can’t believe he’s that stupid’
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- On Monday, Rep. Matt Gaetz filed a “motion to vacate” Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.
- A day later, the House successfully voted to kick McCarthy from his leadership post.
- A Republican congressman from Louisiana was livid and said Gaetz got “schooled” by Democrats.
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A Republican congressman from Louisiana vociferously went after Rep. Matt Gaetz on Wednesday, a day after the chamber voted to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker.
The Hill reported Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana said he believed Gaetz was “totally manipulated” into filing a “motion to vacate” on Monday, forcing the House to take a vote to remove McCarthy from the chamber’s top leadership position.
“Matt Gaetz just got schooled by AOC and others,” Graves said. “He was totally manipulated into doing this. There were eight so-called Republicans that got together with 208 Democrats to oust the Republican Speaker.”
As Graves noted, only a very small minority of Republican representatives — eight in total, including Gaetz — elected to vacate the speakership. And while it takes many more than eight votes to oust the speaker, the entire Democratic caucus voted in lock-step with the small group of GOP rebels, ultimately bringing together the simple majority vote needed to complete the task at hand.
Graves’ comments to reporters on Wednesday weren’t the first he made in recent days disparaging Gaetz. He also called the Florida congressman a “clown,” saying he “would be a great dictator on a small island nation or something.”
The Gaetz’s anger over McCarthy’s ouster hasn’t been contained to just him, instead spilling out toward the GOP caucus at large.
During Tuesday’s vote, Graves took the floor to angrily call out his fellow Republicans for fundraising off the speakership drama, saying: “All of a sudden my phone keeps sending text messages, text messages saying, ‘Hey, give me money. Oh, look at that. Oh look, give me money; I filed the motion to vacate.'”
“Official actions to raise money,” Graves said, “It’s disgusting. It’s what’s disgusting about Washington.”
The House is not set to meet again until next week, when it’ll reconvene to deliberate and vote on a new speaker. And while some members of Congress have voiced their displeasure with the decision, Graves insisted it might be for the health and safety of the legislative body.
“If we had stayed together in the meeting last night, I think that you would have seen fists thrown,” he said.
Matt Gaetz slams 2 Fox News hosts for over-sexualizing AOC and joking that he might divorce his wife and marry her instead
Rep. Matt Gaetz slammed two hosts on “The Five,” a Fox News talk show, for making jokes about him and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and over-sexualizing his Democratic colleague.
In a Tuesday episode of his “Firebrand” podcast, the Florida Republican said he disliked how the two hosts — Greg Gutfeld and Jeanine Pirro — speculated he could end his marriage with his wife, Ginger Luckey, and marry Ocasio-Cortez instead.
“I have got a bone to pick with The Five,” Gaetz said in his podcast, speaking with Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona.
“And it does seem a little childish to me that the media always has to over-sexualize everything that AOC is involved with,” he said. “They wouldn’t do that to men, and two people can engage in serious legislation that’s not renaming some post office. We’re trying to make our Congress more honest and more ethical — without that type of, I think, very childish and immature commentary.”
Gaetz was responding to Gutfeld’s suggestion that the Florida lawmaker and Ocasio-Cortez might get together. This was after after Gaetz and Ocasio-Cortez teamed up to push a new bipartisan bill to ban Congress from trading stocks.
“I smell a romantic comedy. A beautiful left-wing communist Congress, a dashing right-wing male fresh off a wrongful accusation of sexual misconduct,” Gutfeld said.
He added: “They come together to fight one of the most corrupt practices in politics, and they fall in love. They can’t help themselves.”
Pirro, who is also one of the five hosts of the show, then said that she would like to be the officiant at Gaetz and Ocasio-Cortez’s wedding.
Gaetz also slammed Pirro, saying: “And then Judge Jeanine — Judge Jeanine, who starts out saying I am happily married. Judge Jeanine, who was sitting at my table at Mar-a-Lago the night I proposed to my wife. By the end of the Greg Gutfeld rant, she’s bailed, and she’s wanting to be the officiant for me and AOC.”
He added: “So shame on you, Judge Jeanine.”
In May, Ocasio-Cortez and Gaetz formed an alliance to introduce a new bipartisan bill, which aims to ban Congress members and their spouses from trading stocks.
Although the duo has historically clashed on their political ideologies, Gaetz told Fox News’s Jesse Watters on May 2 that while Ocasio-Cortez is “wrong a lot,” she is “not corrupt.”
He’s also defended Ocasio-Cortez in the past.
“I can confirm that AOC gets along w many of her Republican colleagues on a range of things that don’t have anything to do w legislation or politics. She is not a bitch,” Gaetz tweeted in July 2020.
Representatives for Fox News, Gaetz, and Ocasio-Cortez did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment sent outside regular working hours.
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