Politics
WATCH: Trump Viciously Roasts ‘Watermelon Head’ Adam Schiff In Hilarious Rant: ‘Sick Degenerate’
President Donald Trump took off the gloves Tuesday night, ripping into Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a longtime nemesis, with comical specificity during a congressional dinner for U.S. House Republicans.
During his winding remarks, Trump reminded lawmakers that Schiff, a longtime member of the House until this year, was perpetuating the “fake investigations” into baseless allegations that his campaign colluded with Russian assets to win the 2016 election. But it was his acute estimation of Schiff’s physical appearance that left internet denizens in stitches.
“Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, can you believe this guy? He’s got the smallest neck I’ve ever seen,” Trump said to jeers from the crowd.
“And the biggest head. We call him ‘Watermelon Head.’ I said, ‘How can that big, fat face stand on a neck that looks like this finger?” he continued, holding up his hand for effect. “It’s the weirdest thing. It’s a mystery. Nobody can understand it.”
The animosity between Schiff and Trump goes back nearly a decade when, following the 2016 election, Schiff spearheaded a congressional probe into allegations that Russian agents colluded with the president’s campaign to sow damaging information about Hillary Clinton. The California Democrat maintained for years afterward that he had “mountains” of evidence implicating Trump.
Then, in 2023, special counsel John Durham released a comprehensive report concluding that no such evidence existed. Undaunted, Schiff denounced the prosecutor’s investigation as “flawed from the start.”
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Blasting Schiff as “one of the most dishonest” politicians in Washington, D.C., Trump kept the focus on his opponent for nearly three uninterrupted minutes.
“He knows it’s a hoax because he made it up with Crooked Hillary,” he said.
Viewers online didn’t hold back their glee at watching Trump knock a man who has been a thorn in his side for years.
“Throughout the years, my president hasn’t really hated someone personally. But you can tell he really hates shifty shift,” one X user replied to the video shared by conservative commentator Benny Johnson.
Schiff and his allies “would have gladly put Trump and his son in jail for the rest of their lives if they could have gotten away with it,” another surmised.
One let his artwork do the talking, transforming Schiff’s official government headshot into a personified watermelon.
There are signs that members of the administration aren’t ready to forgive and forget, either. Shortly before he was announced as the FBI’s deputy director, Dan Bongino in February posted a cryptic message online suggesting that Sen. Schiff may be in legal jeopardy for pushing the baseless Russian collusion story for years.
“I’m not letting this go. I wanna find out what happened because it can never happen again,” the former Secret Service agent said on an episode of his podcast. “We had the FBI, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, officials in Congress, foreign governments, and intel people fabricate a story, invent a story that could have done serious and long-term harm to international relations with a nuclear-powered foe.”
To Bongino, the wounds ripped open by Schiff are still fresh, and he did little during his appointment to swat down rumors that he may target the lawmaker with a future probe.
“You do not get to change the course of electoral politics by fabricating a story, hijacking the justice system to give a patina of truth to a fake story,” he went on. “Why do I bring that up now? Because who was the ringmaster of that circus? Yes, Adam Schiff and no, I’m not letting it go.”
