Every once in a while someone in the public eye says something so jaw-droppingly stupid that a response is warranted. Former professional wrestler and now actor Dave Bautista made just such a statement.
While on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” the Kamala Harris supporting Bautista took a cheap shot at former President Donald J. Trump via an expletive-filled video. “Fellas, we gotta talk,” Bautista begins, while sparring in a gym’s boxing ring. “A lot of men seem to think that Donald Trump is some kind of tough guy. He’s not.”
Excuse me. Is this guy kidding? It’s one thing to support Harris. It’s quite another to purposely ignore one of the most amazing displays of courage and “toughness” ever captured live on video. That would be when former President Trump was shot during an attempted assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th and then leaped to his feet to yell “fight, fight, fight.”
There is the totally fake and written for him “toughness” that Bautista displays in movies, and then there is real, amazing, and incredibly inspirational toughness and courage Trump showed the world after he was shot. It has been speculated that Bautista exaggerates his height. Maybe he was getting new lifts for his shoes that day and missed the news of Trump getting shot and springing up to do battle.
As famed Irish professional mixed martial artist -- and potential future leader of his own nation -- Conor McGregor posted soon after the assassination attempt: “A 78-year-old multiple billionaire he should be on a yacht on the med touring golf courses. But he is not. He is in Pennsylvania spitting out bullets! Running for the love of his country! God speed Donald! God bless the United States.``
Maybe Bautista missed that comment while in hair and makeup. Or this immediate reaction from liberal Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg after Trump was shot:
“Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life. On some level as an American, it’s like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy.”
While Dave Bautista pretends to be a “tough guy” for millions of dollars, Trump is a tough guy. And, like McGregor, Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, the American people know it.
To be sure, after getting shot in public most people would be curled up under their bed for weeks hugging their teddy bear while talking to their therapist non-stop. Not Trump. He immediately got “back up on the horse” and went to the next rally. More than that, he went back to the “scene of the crime” where he was shot in Butler and held a new rally with over 100,000 people in attendance. Trump is the personification of “toughness” and voters know it because they believe their own eyes.
Long before the assassination attempt on Trump, I was stating he was displaying the courage of our Founding Fathers. A subject I know well.
Just over two years ago, I authored a book titled: The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence. The only reason I wrote that book was to prevent the cancellation of our Founding Fathers by the left.
While doing research for the book, I discovered that the vast majority of the wealthy in 1776 were loyal to the tyrannical Crown. They very cowardly did not want to risk their wealth or privilege to step into the arena to fight for their rights. They chose to let others fight for them.
While most from the mega-wealthy class of today look the other way while the left strips the American people of their rights and liberties, Trump stood up and said “enough.” And for the “toughness” and courage, he has paid a very high price via lawfare, non-stop smears, threats against him and his family, and literally getting shot.
More than a dozen Medal of Honor winners just endorsed Trump for President. Maybe the fake-tough Bautista should sit down with these true American heroes and Patriots and get a definition of real toughness. And while he’s at it, he can then ask them why they endorsed Trump and what they know that he obviously does not.
When it comes to the security of my family and our nation, I’ll take President Trump’s real-world toughness over Bautista’s scripted toughness any day of the week.