‘Nervous as a Pregnant Nun’: GOP Senator Ruthlessly Mocks Chuck Schumer for Amused Fox News Hosts

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) ruthlessly mocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over his approach to handling the ongoing government shutdown on Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning, earning laughs from his interviewers by describing Schumer as being “nervous as a pregnant nun.”

After welcoming Kennedy to the program, host Ainsley Earhardt played a clip of Schumer arguing that, “We’re fighting for the American people. And it’s not just one small group of American people that want this, it’s across the board, Fifty-five percent of Trump voters, hardly a flank in our party, want this. That’s why we’re doing it.”

“Senator, he wants $1.5 trillion added to this for health care,” added Earhardt before asking Kennedy for his reaction, which he gladly offered:

Well, I listened to the clip of Senator Schumer. His relationship with the truth is very casual. The truth is that this is a political shutdown. Senator Schumer is-, he’s nervous as a pregnant nun about losing his re-election to the socialist wing of his party, led by Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, which is in control.

Now, we will eventually come out of this shutdown. Here’s how I think it will happen. Chuck, Senator Schumer, is a smart man. He’s been around a long time. His first car was a chariot. Washington is all he’s ever known his entire life. He knows he’s on shaky ground here in terms of policy. So here’s how I think it’ll end. Schumer will go to six or eight of his colleagues and say –Democrats of course — and say, “I want you to vote to lift the shut down.” Now, he’ll say, “I can’t vote with you, I’ve got to appear to be tough, I may even have to criticize you, but wink, wink, nod, nod, I’m trying to make the loon wing of the party love me, but you bail me out here.” But he’s gotta be careful with that because he doesn’t want it to look like a mutiny. Because then he looks even weaker.

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