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BACK AGAINST THE WALZ: Failed Veep Candidate Backtracks on Tesla Comments, 'I Have to Be Careful About Being a Smarta--' [WATCH]

posted by Hannity Staff - 3.24.25

More like a jacka**.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz backtracked on his anti-Tesla comments while speaking at a town hall event in Rochester, Minnesota, over the weekend.

Walz recently celebrated the fact that Tesla stock was falling despite the fact that the Minnesota state pension has millions in Tesla stock.

“[Musk] bugs me in a way that is probably unhealthy,” Walz said to applause and cheers. “I have to be careful about being a smarta**. I was making a joke. These people have no sense of humor. They are the most literal people. My point was that they’re all mad, and I said something I probably shouldn’t have about a company,” he stated.

Walz continued: “I make the case they’re all butthurt about the Tesla thing, but they don’t care the disrespect they have shown to employees at the Minneapolis VA who care for our veterans, and they fire them. They don’t care.”

Walz claimed, “We will have the conversation about efficiency in government and about doing that but none of us believe for a second they’re thinking about this.”

“Oh, we fired everybody that’s dealing with Ebola, and then he went into the Oval Office wearing a hat,” he said of Musk. “I don’t want to hear anybody talking about decorum and respect or that, wearing a hat, coming in there, the richest man in the world.”

Watch the clip below:

Walz has been railing against Trump, Musk, and their supporters recently, even going as far as to claim he could beat up most Trump supporters.

“I think I could kick most of their a**! I do think that … I know I can outrun them. I don’t know if we’re going to fall into that place where we, okay, we challenge you to, you know, a WWE fight here, type of thing. … I think some of us scare them. I think I scare them a little bit, it’s why they spend so much time on this.”

While speaking on a CNN panel last week, Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary blasted Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for celebrating Tesla’s stock going down.

Walz told a crowd he likes to watch the stock fall for a “boost during the day.”

O’Leary said Walz doesn’t realize that Tesla stock is in his state’s pension plan.

“That poor guy didn’t check his portfolio in his own pension plan for state,” O’Leary said. “It’s beyond stupid what he did. I mean, what’s the matter with that guy? He doesn’t check the well-being of his own constituents … What a bozo.”

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