30-Year-Old Evicted Millennial Gives Another Cringeworthy Interview on Fox News
America is oddly transfixed by the sad story of 30-year-old Michael Rotondo, and self-described conservative millenial, who was evicted from his parents’ home and had a really, really awkward interview with CNN’s Brooke Baldwin earlier on Wednesday.
Rotondo continued his bizarre media parade on Fox News with Martha MacCallum, who starting off the interview sounded like she was speaking to a little child.
“Where are you speaking with us from this evening?” she asked Rotondo, probing whether he was still living with his parents.
“I’m in a restaurant,” came the answer.
“You’ve left the house?” she asked, her voice taking on a hopeful tone.
“Well, I’m not there right now,” he replied caustically.
Awkward.
MacCallum then shifted gears and asked what Rotondo’s plan was to leave the house after a judge ruled that he could no longer live in his parents’ home.
What followed was a veritable word salad as the young man — who rambled during his CNN appearance — once again tried to save face.
“There is a time period where the attorney of my parents is going to send a proposed order and then can I can also appeal the decision but there is a lot of different things that… there is a lot of possibilities, but what it boils down to is that I don’t want to be there,” Rotondo said. “I’ve been trying to get out for years… It’s that I just need enough time.”
“But you’ve had eight years and they have asked you five different times,” MacCallum replied.
Then came maybe the most cringeworthy part, as MacCallum asked him: “You recognize that this isn’t your house. It’s their house. Do you acknowledge that?”
Rotondo tried to worm his way out of that one by asking when he’s ever said that his parents have asked him five different times to leave. Don’t change the subject, Michael.
More cringeworthy stuttering later, Rotondo said he expects to be out of his parents’ home in “three months or so.”
“Do you understand why your Mom and Dad want you to go? Maybe they think it’s the best thing for you to move on with your life. You know?” MacCallum said in her best I’m-saying-this-because-I-care tone. (It wasn’t that convincing.)
“I think it’s more of, like, I think it’s more affiliated regarding the matters regarding my son than it is the fact that all of a sudden after eight years, two days after their visitation proceeding is heard, that it’s time for me to go right after that,” Rotondo blathered, referring to a custody battle for his son he had mentioned on CNN.
Yikes.
Watch above, via Fox News.
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