Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s daughter, Hope Walz, was being ripped online Friday after she put popular running influencer Kate Mackz on blast for visiting the White House to meet with Trump administration officials.
The 23-year-old took aim at Mackz after the influencer posted a clip of President Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, giving her a behind-the-scenes look at the White House earlier this week.
In a rambling TikTok tirade, an enraged Hope accused Mackz — who interviewed her father during his failed vice presidential campaign last year — of now trying to appeal to both sides of the political aisle.
She also claimed to her millions of followers that running was “political” and suggested that it was a “privilege” only some could enjoy.
“Running as an act is political. And you know who taught me that? Tim Walz,” Hope said at the beginning of her two-minute rant.
“The first thing he told me when I was first getting into it in high school … was that running is a privilege, and being a part of the running community is a privilege that not all people have access to.
“Whether it be you just having the time to run, access to funds to buy the gear, access to, you know, healthy, quality foods that fuel you as you’re training and as you’re running,” she continued.
“Access to, you know, a safe, stable situation that allows you to be in a good mental state, to be able to run. All of those things are hard to come by and if you have them and are a part of the running community, that is a privilege.”
At one point, Hope also bizarrely accused the Trump administration of harming the running community by cutting funds from a host of areas, including foods banks, mental health resources and even climate initiatives.
She suggested that Mackz — who posts clips of herself jogging alongside celebrities and politicians as she interviews them — was culpable, too, simply because of her decision to tour the Trump White House.
“We should not be normalizing these people,” Hope said, seemingly referring to Leavitt and other Trump officials.
“You don’t get to both sides of this. It’s not both sides. We are quite literally talking about good versus evil here. I’m just really disappointed the whole thing happened.”
Hope took issue, in part, with the fact that the content creator still had her dad’s interview pinned to the top of her TikTok and Instagram accounts — even after her recent chat with the White House spox.
Mackz’s video with Walz has racked up more than 4.4 million views on TikTok since she posted it last October in the midst of the presidential campaign.
Her Leavitt interview, meanwhile, had garnered 1.8 million views as of Friday.
“I’m not going to tell anyone what to do with their page, but I think it’s insulting to my dad to leave a certain video pin, especially when he stands for quite literally the opposite of what the administration is doing,” Hope ranted.
The conservative backlash against Hope was swift on social media as critics lashed out at her “embarrassing” and “unreasonable” rant.
“Tim Walz’s daughter is fuming on TikTok right now because running TikTok influencer Kate Mackz … *checks notes* … visited the White House,” one person posted on X.
“She’s just as dumb as her father.”
“This is Tim Walz’s daughter claiming running (as in physically running with your legs for exercise) is a political act, a privilege, and contributes to climate change. And he’s the one who told her that,” another user wrote mockingly.
Another chimed in: “Hope Walz is having yet another mental meltdown. This time it’s because a running influencer decided to interview Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt,” one user posted on X.
“Democrats don’t want equality, they want obedience.”
“Hope Walz is a complete wack job,” one X user said bluntly.
