Things got heated for Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) while he was campaigning for former President Trump during the Iowa Caucus on Jan. 15.
Hunt was interrupted by a heckler who interrupted his speech, calling him “racist” on MLK Day, but it didn’t seem to bother him too much. “Tonight, at the Timberline Caucus, as I spoke on behalf of President Trump, an enraged man attempted to stop my speech,” Hunt tweeted. “He shouted Trump was ‘racist.’ You know, the same tired trope we’ve heard over and over again.
Seemingly upset about Hunt’s remarks of “being Black my whole life,” the protestor called him out, stating his confusion on how “a Black man can stand here and talk about the man not being racist.” “Trump is racist,” he shouted before being escorted out by supporters. The heckler, who appeared to be Black himself, claimed Hunt was “degrading himself” and turning his back on his people by supporting the four-time indicted businessman.
Following a round of applause from the audience after he was removed, the West Point graduate highlighted representing a district in Houston, which is predominantly Black, and then moved forward with quoting Dr. King. “I come from a district in Houston, Texas, that’s a majority white district, and I won by 30 points,” Hunt said. “Because on days like this, I realize I am literally being judged not by the color of my skin but on the content of my character.”
On Twitter, Hunt alluded to hearing the same rhetoric before referring to it as “the same tired trope we’ve heard over and over again,” but in the spirit of Dr. King, he wanted the audience to not judge – just like Donald Trump. “But on this day, of all days, Martin Luther King Day, the people of Iowa, just like President Trump, judge me not by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character,” he said, according to Daily Wire
. “The anti-Trump movement is in full-blown meltdown.”