Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tried to pretend to celebrate Fathers’ Day on Sunday the all-American way… and he saw his photo-op plans derailed.
Critics noticed something odd about Schumer’s Father’s Day grilling photo.
“Our family has lived in an apartment building for all our years, but my daughter and her wife just bought a house with a backyard and for the first time we’re having a barbecue with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill!” Schumer tweeted. “Father’s Day Heaven!”
In the attached photo, Schumer seemed to be posing at a grill… without actually grilling.
In the picture, he’d clearly put a piece of cheese on a raw patty (Obviously, the cheese goes on a cooked patty. Otherwise, a cook would flip the cheese onto the grill.)
He was also cooking burgers on low heat.
Schumer quickly tried to delete tweet. In an earlier tweet, he said, more simply, “Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!”
He was too late. The most powerful person in the Senate was savaged online by critics.
“Our ruling class thinks they can relate to us,” policymaker Matthew Tragesser tweeted. “They can’t.”
“Seriously idk what is worse, the raw burgers being cooked on low – or the cheese on raw beef,” said Gavin Elwes, a former staffer for Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign. “Did he think he was going to flip the cheese on the grill?”
One Twitter user called the photo op “a perfect analogy for what this man and his party are doing to this country.”
Take a look —
Chuck Schumer just deleted this post where he got insanely ratioed for not knowing how to make a cheeseburger.
Democrats try to be relatable without being super cringe challenge: IMPOSSIBLE pic.twitter.com/haXEfuoCj8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 17, 2024
Schumer has raised eyebrows with his odd culinary choices in the past.
In 2013, Schumer was found to have eaten almost nothing but cereal for months. At the time, Schumer was sharing a Capitol Hill apartment with fellow Democrats Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and former Rep. George Miller of California.
None of them wanted to cook on the stove, which had a hole in it. “The rats may have done that,” Miller said at the time, referring to the hole in the stove.
More than a decade later, Schumer is still showing an aversion to gas stoves… and still hasn’t learned to cook.