Kamala Harris was accepting her partyâs nomination for president of the United States. But Michelle Obama was still thinking about Gus Walz.
âI was touched to see Gus Walzâs joy when his dad @Tim_Walz took the stage last night,â the former first lady said of the vice presidential candidateâs 17-year-old son. âThankful for you showing us all what real love looks like, Gus.â
She then added, âLetâs be a nation that embraces this kind of warmth and vulnerability, instead of making fun or mocking it. We could all use some of Gusâs example in our own lives.â
Itâs not hard to deduce who she was talking about.
Earlier in the day on Thursday, conservative outrage machine Ann Coulter deleted her tweet about Gus Walzâs emotional reaction to his fatherâs speech the night before that simply read, âTalk about weird...â
It was only after it was pointed out to her that Gus Walz is neurodivergent that Coulter says she decided to take down her heartless mockery, though she did not offer any form of apology. âI took it down as soon as someone told me heâs austistc [sic],â she said, misspelling the diagnosis, âbut itâs Democrats who go around calling everyone weird thinking itâs hilariously funny.â
Michelle Obama, meanwhile, found herself on the receiving end of Coulterâs derision in 2016 after Melania Trump was accused of plagiarizing her predecessorâs convention speech.
âItâs impossible to plagiarize twaddle,â Coulter said at the time. âMelaniaâs speechwriter didnât write them, but neither did Michelleâs speechwriter. âThe only limit to what you achieve is your dreamsâ⌠We can go to a Rite Aid right now and find a million Hallmark cards that say it. âYour word is your bondâ? They think Michelle Obama copyrighted that?â
In addition to Obamaâs more subtle denunciation of Coulterâs tweet about Walz, there were much more pointed criticisms from figures like Rosie OâDonnell, who posted, âTalk about a cruel heartless womanâsheâs the worstâ and The Viewâs Ana Navarro, who told Coulter to âleave Gus Walz the f--- alone.â
Star Wars star Mark Hamill also threw his support behind Gus, responding to another commentator who said they felt âguttedâ watching the emotional DNC moment. âSame here. Canât wait to see him visiting his dad in the WH. (consider this a Gus Walz appreciation tweet),â Hamill wrote.