They didn’t have a problem when Jon Stewart used it as his go-to insult again and again.
Gov. Tim Walz is retarded. Not because he suffers from developmental disabilities or other medical problems, but because he’s an idiot.
Everyone who isn’t Gov. Tim Walz knew exactly what President Trump was saying when he called Walz “seriously retarded”.
The fake outrage over this is just that… fake. No one is seriously outraged over Trump using “retarded”. They’re pretending to be outraged to scuttle the investigation of Somali fraud under Walz’s watch, the redistricting battle in Indiana and because being professionally outraged over anything Trump does or says is a full-time job.
The term “retarded” hasn’t been used to describe an actual mental disability in quite a while. It was an insult when I was in grade school. And before that. The same people feigning outrage over the use of “retarded” were laughing when Jon Stewart used it as his go-to insult again and again.
So they’re not outraged. They’re liars. And they’re trying to push a broken outrage button no one cares about anymore.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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