Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) recently joined the veepstakes only last Friday as he endorsed former President Donald Trump at a rally in New Hampshire.
In a moment captured on Monday, Trump called Scott up to the podium to shower him with praise, but not before celebrating Scott’s recent engagement by feeding into gossipy, oftentimes derisive, speculation that Scott is gay.
“Today it was a big story, the biggest story out there: He’s engaged to be married. We never thought this was going to happen. What’s going on?” asked Trump mischievously before calling Scott up to ask the crowd, amongst other questions, “How many of y’all want me to stop talking so you can hear from your next president, Donald J. Trump?”
It has been noted that during Trump’s rather irritable Tuesday night victory speech, Scott laughed awkwardly behind the former president as both Trump and one of his rivals for the no. 2 spot on the GOP ticket, Vivek Ramaswamy, rained down insults and smears on Nikki Haley, who appointed Scott to his Senate seat back in 2013.
“We’ve won almost every single poll in the last three months against Crooked Joe Biden and she doesn’t win those polls!” declared Trump as Scott whooped and clapped behind his right shoulder.
Trump continued to lambast Haley for supposedly claiming victory in her own speech on Tuesday (she actually congratulated Trump on winning), declaring that “she did very poorly” and “failed badly” before calling on Ramaswamy to inveigh against her.
“What we saw tonight was America First defeating America Last,” began Ramaswamy as Scott smiled broadly, yet robotically, behind him.
“What we see right now with her continuing in this race is the ugly underbelly of American politics,” argued Ramaswamy. Scott nodded along as Ramaswamy condemned Haley for wanting “to cut your Social Security to fork over more money to Ukraine so some kleptocrat can buy a bigger house.”
