Hope Walz, the daughter of Minnesota Gov. and former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz (D), tore into MAGA fanatics who have been harassing her family since the president called her father with the r-word.

“I’m talking about this because, while my family and I are always going to be the bigger people, the president calling my dad what he did has unleashed a f***ing s**t storm regarding offensive language towards me and my family and specifically my brother,” she said in a now-deleted TikTok video.

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She spoke up specifically for her brother, Gus, who has a nonverbal learning disorder. “You can call me whatever you want, you can call my dad, my mom, when it’s Gus, f**K to the no… He dealt with people calling him that last August, and now there’s a resurgence? No.”

“How is it OK that the president of the United States can call somebody, anybody doesn’t matter who they are, that, and then all of his fricking cult members come and attack those people and that person’s family.”

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“Say what you want about my dad. He’s an elected official. That’s going to happen. I think it’s utterly disgraceful that the president would do that, but then, the attacks that I have seen. I have people DMing me saying absolutely horrendous things.”

She also said someone drove by her family’s house and shouted the slur at them. “You people are f***ing disgraceful. Shame on you, all of you.”

The president has defended calling Gov. Walz the r-word in a Thanksgiving social media post, which also made racist comments about Somali immigrants living in Walz’s state.

Last Sunday, a reporter asked, “You called Tim Walz what many Americans consider an offensive word. Do you stand by that claim?”

The president responded, “Yeah, I think there’s something wrong with him. Absolutely. You have a problem with it?”

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