Maybe it was what he ate for breakfast that day. Perhaps his stomach was in knots because President Donald Trump did something that made him mad. Or it could have been GOP antics that got to him. Whatever the cause was, per the New York Post, New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, seemed to audibly pass gas. The embarrassing rumble allegedly took place while he was making a speech on the chamber floor on July 14. Legislators get accused of being full of hot air, all the time. This, however, was a bit too literal.
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At the time, Schumer was reportedly unloading on President Trump and how the war with Iran is going. The outlet claims that the sound of his intestinal faux pas was heard on C-SPAN's live broadcast of the proceedings.
Schumer Was Weighing in Against Trump and the Iran War
At the time, Chuck Schumer was making an impassioned address about Donald Trump and how the war is being handled. Per the outlet, he said, "When all the Trump administration can say about his disastrous war with Iran is that Vietnam was worse. A point Trump made yesterday, he reveals the scale of his failure. This is what Donald Trump said. The only thing he can say is Vietnam was worse. Oh my God! A war that killed close to 50,000 Americans, a war that lasted almost a decade, a war that ripped America apart."
Cue the sound effects.
If Schumer was hoping to keep his below-the-belt blast private, well, he didn't. Actually, the video clip was allegedly shared by "RNC Research, the Republican National Committee's official X account, and conservative commentator Mark Kaye...." Ah, the perils of being in the limelight!
Other Pols Have Been in a Similar Position
Chuck Schumer is not alone in his abdominal anguish. In fact, former California Congressman Eric Swalwell, whose campaign for governor was derailed by allegations of sexual misconduct, "unleashed an air biscuit for the ages live on MSNBC's 'Hardball with Chris Matthews' in 2019," per the Post.
Nevertheless, Swalwell reportedly said he was not the culprit. The program allegedly claimed that the noise was a mug being moved by someone over the surface of a desk.
