The former president's son called the Pennsylvania senator - beset by health problems over the last year - a vegetable during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and said maybe he can get work as a grocery bagger.
Donald Trump Jr. is taking flak for calling Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, D-Pa., “a vegetable” during an address at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday.
for treatment of clinical depression. That came about nine months after he suffered a major stroke during the 2022 primary election campaign that’s caused auditory processing problems he is trying to recover from.“When I said, like, I don’t know, it’s sort of weird that Pennsylvania managed to elect a vegetable, they criticize me as being ableist. I didn’t know what that was. But there’s always an ‘ist’. It doesn’t matter what you’re talking about.
“Yes, I know that Trump Jr.’s point was that Fetterman might be incapable of performing the work of a United States senator. That’s a legitimate issue, as is the senator’s hiding of his previous episodes of depression during the campaign. PennLive reached out to Fetterman’s office for a response, but had not received any comment yet as of this writing.
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