The right wing is revolting over the party’s body-shaming of Illinois’s governor.
The official GOP X account used Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to lob shots at the billionaire Democrat JB Pritzker’s weight. In a post on X, the GOP shared an AI-generated Valentine depicting Pritzker wearing a bib and gorging on a jumbo-sized bucket of chicken, a double-decker cheeseburger, meatballs, a root beer float, and more.
“My love for you is bigger than JB Pritzker,” it reads.
A post from the GOP X account that shows a generated image of Governor JB Pritzker eating food. / Screenshot/JB Pritzker/X
A post from the GOP X account that shows a generated image of Governor JB Pritzker eating food. / Screenshot/JB Pritzker/X
That didn’t sit well with some within the GOP’s ranks.
“This never would have gone out when I was running the RNC comms shop,” Douglas Heye, a GOP operative and communications specialist, wrote on X. “Reveling in unprofessionalism.”