Do you remember that English teacher who seemingly had eyes in the back of her head? It didn’t matter whether her back was turned, you ducked under your desk, or whispers were near silent; she saw it all.
Well, as a lifelong educator, Gwen Walz — the wife of Minnesota governor, vice presidential hopeful, and fellow schoolteacher Tim — is the exact same. However, her powers become apparent when she puts on her “English-teacher glasses” and evokes an all-knowing teacher’s voice.
And she’s been doing just that on the campaign trail, squaring up to schoolyard bullies like Donald Trump and JD Vance to ask: “How ’bout you mind your own business?”
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The routine has been one of the hilarious highlights of the 58-year-old First Lady of Minnesota’s recent speeches for the Harris-Walz campaign.
With a searing tone, playful seriousness, and confidence in her message, the move flawlessly infantilizes the GOP and its platform while highlighting its “weirdness” for getting involved in others’ business in the first place—a key component of both Gwen and Tim’s messaging since walking into the national spotlight.
That said, it’s not all jokes and visual gags.
At a recent event in North Carolina, Gwen spoke about her family’s struggles with fertility — a painful and emotional memory that felt especially relevant after Alabama’s Supreme Court “legally classified frozen embryos as children,” and Republicans (including Vance) offer veiled threats against the future of IVF in this country.
Gwen recalled, “It was almost too much to bear to even tell our friends and family because then the disappointment felt exponential.”
The couple eventually opened up to their neighbor, who was a nurse, and assisted Gwen with injections for her fertility treatment as she struggled to get pregnant for years.
“That journey was hard, but we kept going, and it was worth it,” Gwen explained. “Eventually, we had our daughter, and it’s no accident after that that we named her Hope.”
For these reasons, the Republican Party’s attacks on reproductive rights and family planning feel like personal affronts against both Mr. and Mrs. Walz.
“[Trump] is the one who took down Roe and unleashed all of this chaos and all of this cruelty,” she explained before addressing Vance: “Who asked him to tell us how to build our families? Nobody asked him, and nobody’s going to ask him. JD, we’re not asking.”
At this point, Gwen broke out the glasses to declare, “School has started. Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance, please mind your own business.”
Tell ’em!
Not only is it an impactful gag, but it highlights a stark difference between the two parties’ approaches, as both Trump and Vance continue to hide their wives while attacking their rights.
Furthermore, teachers like Gwen and Tim aren’t just effective at issuing discipline; they know things!
Case-in-point: this photo featuring Tim’s Nebraska family members (registered Republicans) went viral as they proudly proclaimed they were voting for Trump.
However, as many schoolteachers and Democrats pointed out, their shirts completely confused plural and possessive forms, reading: “Walz’s for Trump.” LOL.
Ms. Gwen, can we get a grammar refresher ASAP?
Watch Gwen Walz’s full speech from a September 9 rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, below.
War On Free Speech
Maybe JD Vance wouldn’t talk about if Tim Walz had told the truth to begin with. One of his many lies. His wife had to come forward and clarify.
Walz’s children were conceived using intrauterine insemination (IUI), not IVF. These are two very different things, and the policy conversations about them are fundamentally distinct; many religious conservatives want to prohibit IVF—which can result in the destruction of unused fertilized embryos outside the womb—but not IUI.
abfab
Priceless tee shirts.
abfab
Unfortunately you came to term, Waron.
Eternal.Cowboy
“One of his many lies.”
You concern over lies would be far more believable if you were not a full throated Trump supporter. I guess the many lies somehow don’t matter. Kind of like how you think relatives of candidates don’t matter unless their name is Hunter.
Ronbo
Unfortunate that Vance is even in politics. Unfortunate that Walz has repeated the misinformation. Unfortunate that abfab mistakes volume with quality.
Censorship has no place in a free society – even as our establishment tells us otherwise. Keep on posting War On. I like that you upset the extremists who would censor our Constitution. It’s the FIRST Amendment; it’s not like abfab has to read too far to see it is a foundational policy of the USA.
abfab
Bring in your pets, ronny. The Haitians are coming!
abfab
Project 2025. Talk about censorship ronny.
still_onthemark
R0 nb0: You should read the First Amendment sometime. It applies only to the government, not to a private site which can (and does) censor its own name in comments, for some reason.
abfab
Project 2025 is taking up all of his quality time.
Seeing POS making a fool of himself (what else does he ever do) tonight will be most satisfying if not down right delicious.
Kangol2
Kamala Harris ran rings around DJT tonight. DJT should be embarrassed. Even ardent DJT supporter Lady G was bemoaning his lack of debate preparation.
War On Free Speech
@still_onthemark
You need to read someone’s remarks more carefully before you respond. Ronbo didn’t say free speech was universal. The current administration is well versed in limiting the free speech of millions of Americans.
Murthy v. Missouri involves a claim by the states of Missouri and Louisiana and several social media users that federal government officials compelled social media companies to remove certain content and refuse to post other content because the government did not like the viewpoints or messages of that speech.
abfab
Waron and Ronbo remain incoherent and unproductive.