Itโs an unofficial rule among elected Republicans these days: Donโt ever say anything negative about Donald Trump. Because if you do, it could mean the end of your career in GOP politics.
One top Republican this week broke that rule, although, by all accounts, it was by accident.
Per The Daily Beast, the mistake happened at the National Republican Congressional Committeeโs annual dinner, when Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the House Majority Whip, addressed dinner, dressed in black tie. And when he did, Emmer mistakenly referred to Trump by what sounded like a bad slur:
President what? ๐ณ pic.twitter.com/wFLjExvuOI
โ Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 8, 2025
Emmer soon recovered and declared, โThe American people are counting on us, and our friends in this room and grassroots supporters across the country are counting on us.โ
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At the same dinner, Trump appeared to make some โdinner remarksโ and ended up speaking for nearly two hours.
lol this was quite the way for Trump to wrap up a โdinner remarksโ speech that flirted with 2 hours in length pic.twitter.com/cnmuWNBx3F
โ Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 9, 2025
Thereโs a chance it was a Freudian slip because Trump and Emmer have clashed before. In 2023, during the controversy over who would serve as House speaker, Trump reportedly bragged about blocking Emmer from the job. Trump even denounced the Minnesota Congressman as โtotally out-of-touch with Republican Votersโ and a โGlobalist RINO.โ At the time, Steve Bannon was denouncing Emmer as a โnever-Trumperโ who had โzeroโ chance of ever becoming speaker of the House.
โHeโs done. Itโs over. I killed him,โ Trump reportedly said of Emmer, who soon after dropped his bid to serve as speaker, although he did end up keeping the #3 job in the House Republican caucus and has had nary a negative word to say about Trump in the two years since. Until that slip-up, at least.
Whatever the motivation for blurting out that particular word at that time, users on X had great fun with Emmerโs gaffe.
Pairs perfectly with Vice-President Jackoff https://t.co/abZjuGUSVw
โ ๐alos๐ต (@zwiitt) April 8, 2025
Who is this guy and why will he be floating in the Potomac by 3 am? https://t.co/9lpZihsDhf
โ Bill Sweetman (@ValkStrategy) April 8, 2025
Letting his and everyone elseโs real thoughts about Trump slip out I see https://t.co/7MSECioZ1U
โ TheBlackPanther (@Micah7008761185) April 8, 2025
Thatโs what I call him too!๐น https://t.co/29zFbokhoj
โ Pixie Wan Kanobi (@PKanobi) April 9, 2025
Photo courtesy of YouTube screengrab
