Ingrassia’s nomination raised concerns among Republican members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Monday after Politico reported he told a group of Republican associates that Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and said he has a “Nazi streak.”
In January 2024, Ingrassia called MLK Jr. the “1960s George Floyd” and declared that “his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs,” Politico reported. He also used a disparaging term for Black people while arguing that Black History month, Juneteenth and Kwanzaa need to be “eviscerated.”
To make his point, he said that right-wingers should deflect the accusations that they’re veering towards fascism by reclaiming the word “Nazi” for themselves. Some progressives have referred to ICE agents, or Trump’s agenda, as echoing the Nazi party.
“This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis. Nazi this and Nazi that. You know, I’m beginning to think they don’t like us,” he sneered. “You know what? I’ve said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks.”
Gutfeld continued: “The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it. So, from now on, it’s, ‘What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what’s hanging, my Nazi?'”
“Nazi, please,” a gleeful Kennedy interjected while co-host Jesse Watters giggled in the background.
“Thank God you did a hard ‘i’ there,” Gutfeld quipped.
