Senators will no doubt yield this one back without objection.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared to break wind on the floor of the chamber this week, even suppressing a light chuckle after the now-viral delivery.
The 75-year-old was criticizing President Trump and the war in Iran when he seemed to have lost a war of his own that was brewing in his trousers, letting loose an audible fart that went out live on C-SPAN airwaves Tuesday.
“Now on Iran and the NDAA,” Schumer said before seemingly cutting the cheese in a viral clip first isolated and shared by The Blaze.
“When all the Trump administration can say about his disastrous war with Iran is that Vietnam was worse. A point Trump made yesterday, he reveals the scale of his failure. This is what Donald Trump said. The only thing he can say is Vietnam was worse. Oh my God! A war that killed close to 50,000 Americans, a war that lasted almost a decade, a war that ripped America apart.”
Ripped indeed.
The clip was shared widely online, including by RNC Research, the Republican National Committee’s official X account, and conservative commentator Mark Kaye, who suggested the episode made a strong case for imposing term limits on lawmakers.
Schumer’s Tootgate brought to mind a similar televised gaseous emission by disgraced former California Rep. and accused serial sex pest Eric Swalwell, who unleashed an air biscuit for the ages live on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” in 2019.
“Chris, so far the evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to help him cheat —” Swalwell says with a pause, as the unmistakable *brappppp* can be clearly heard, “— an election.”
As reporters swooped in to determine who dealt it, Swalwell quickly denied he had been the one who supplied it, emphatically texting a BuzzFeed News reporter “It was not me!!!!!”
The show later claimed on social media that the errant sound was simply a mug scraping across a desk in the studio.
Schumer has not directly addressed his own outburst on the Senate floor.
