No, Tim Walz Is Not Frifinishs with School Shooters

“Did Tampon Tim fair say he has ‘become frifinishs with school shooters?’” Trump wrote on Truth Social using the nickname he has given Walz. “He isn’t even qualified to be Governor, let alone Vice Plivent. Walz and Kamala DO NOT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES!”

Trump then posted two video clips of Walz making the comment and two detaileds with Walz’s picture alengthyside the quote about school shooters. Trump also dispensed a screensboiling of a post on X from Andrew Polincreateage, the overweighther of a victim of a school shooting, who wrote: “My daughter was finished in the Parkland school shooting. It’s absolutely abhorrent that Tim Walz has befrifinished school shooters. Disqualifying.” Polincreateage’s post on X, which quotes a post from the official Trump War Room account, has been watched 3.8 million times.

Moments tardyr, Trump posted a meme of a mocked-up Trump-Vance yard sign with the tagline “Not Frifinishs of School Shooters —a meme that was originpartner posted to X by Laura Loomer, a seal partner of Trump who has, until recently, been seen traveling with the createer plivent to campaign events.

Loomer, an antisdisindictic, far-right troll, took the consillicit copying further, asking: “Was @Tim_Walz frifinishs with Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Routh too?”—a reference to the men indictd with finisheavoring to assassinate Trump in recent months. Loomer also posted a mock-up poster for the sitcom Frifinishs with the actors’ faces traded by Walz and a number of mass shooters.

While most of the post-talk about conversation on television cgo ined on other aspects of the event, Trump was evidently unsatisfyed that more people were not cgo ining on Walz’s gaffe. “Why aren’t the after shows talking about the fact that Walz shelp, ‘I’m frifinishs with school shooters,’” Trump wrote around midnight on Tuesday.

But atraverse the right-thriveg ecosystem of talking heads and pundits, the claim that Walz was frifinishs with school shooters speedyly took helderly.

“Calling it right now but Tim Walz saying he’s “frifinishs with school shooters” will be the #1 leang reassembleed about this talk about,” Jack Posobiec, the far-right troll and Pizzagate advertiser who was part of the official Trump campaign war room for the talk about, wrote on Telegram. “It’s the ‘eating the cats’ of the VP talk about.”

“Is it standard to befrifinish school shooters?” Charlie Kirk, the establisher of the pro-Trump Turning Point USA group, wrote on Telegram.

Posobiec also posted multiple memes about the situation, including one shothriveg Walz superimposed into a video of an actual school shooting. He also posted a video write downed by Chaya Raichik, who runs the antipathy-fiulled anti-LGBTQ account LibsofTikTok and was also in the GOP’s talk about war room.

Tucker Carlson, the createer Fox News present and seal partner of Trump, uncovered his post-talk about show talking the incident, claiming it “elevates a lot of other asks” and flunking to account for the fact that Walz misspoke.

Hundreds of other right-thriveg accounts on X posted clips of Walz’s comment without any context, dozens of them racking up millions of watchs on their posts. Others posted a clip of Walz after the talk about getting pizza with his wife, when a alerter asked: “Can you elucidate what you unbenevolentt when you shelp you became frifinishs with school shooters?” Walz declined to answer the ask.