Fox News: Walz's wife triggers applause, cringes with anti-Trump hand gesture

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Walz's wife triggers applause, cringes with anti-Trump hand gesture

Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz is facing social media backlash over a campaign speech where she declared it's time to "turn the page" from former President Trump.......                    ...                        ...A campaign speech by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, in which she used a sweeping hand gesture to say "bye bye" and "turn the page" on former President Trump energized a Wisconsin audience, but induced cringes elsewhere.......Gwen Walz was slammed as the "living embodiment of Trump Derangement Syndrome" for a stump speech for her husband, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in Wisconsin on Saturday. ......In the speech, Gwen Walz cited Harris' debate performance last week and how she repeatedly said the election is the time to "turn the page" on the current political climate. ......"Now you probably saw that debate the other night. Yeah, that was great. And what Kamala Harris told us we had to do, was we had to turn the page. Yeah, because we have something really exciting headed in our direction," Gwen Walz said. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"But I kinda like when she did this," Minnesota's first lady continued, imitating someone turning the page of a book. "Turn the page."......Gwen Walz then asked the audience to join her in pantomiming turning the page, while declaring the Democratic Party has "52 days to turn the page" on Trump's run for the White House. ......"You know what else that looks like?" Walz asked as she continued moving her arms around. "Bye, bye. Bye bye, Donald Trump," she exclaimed. ......"We are turning the page," she added. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Critics quickly slammed Gwen Walz and her speech as "cringe" and "1000x worse than Hillary Clinton." ......Gwen Walz is a Minnesota teacher who met her husband when they both worked as educators in the 1990s. She has served as the Gopher State's first lady since 2019, when You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. ......Gwen Walz previously set social media ablaze this election cycle after an unearthed clip went viral of her describing how she handled the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"Again we had more sleepless nights during the riots," Walz's wife told KSTP in July 2020. "I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. And I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening."......Critics and conservatives at the time slammed the remarks as "bizarre" on social media......."What might you call this? Bizarre? Abnormal? Peculiar? Eccentric? Offbeat? Quirky?" wrote Noah Rothman, a senior writer at the National Review Online. "Gotta be a word that describes reveling in the catharsis represented by the torching of other people's property."......Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login as "weird."......The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login...

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