Dark humor spread on social media yesterday with people joking that, while the president is leading the U.S. into a possible global war, at least the voters who supported him got what they wanted on cultural issues. The joke pointed out that the reasons people voted for the current president in 2024 were trifling compared to the amount of destruction he seemed likely to cause while threatening genocide in Iran.

And then the country’s most famous fifth-place swimmer made the argument in earnest.

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Minnesota Gov. and former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz (D) said that the president “has lost his mind” in a post yesterday, likely referring to how the president said that a “whole civilization will die tonight.”

“If the man who required tampons in 4th grade boy’s bathrooms thinks you’ve lost your mind, it’s a pretty good sign you’re completely sane,” anti-trans activist Riley Gaines replied, referring to a law in Minnesota that required menstrual products – not necessarily tampons – to be made available in school bathrooms for students starting in grade 4 so that “all menstruating students” could access them. That law became the basis of constant right-wing attacks on Walz in 2024.