Bravo star Jennifer Welch claims 'fat' Trump voters should be banned from Mexican restaurants in explosive rant
Jennifer Welch, who formerly starred on short-lived reality show, Sweet Home, Oklahoma, took aim at white MAGA voters who support deporting illegal migrants but still have 'the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant.'
Appearing on her I've Had It podcast, Welch ranted: 'I've had it with white people that triple Trumped. that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go to a gay hairdresser.
'I don't think you should be able to enjoy anything but Cracker Barrel.'
Laying into 'triple Trumpers' - people who voted for Trump in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections - she said: 'If you want to triple Trump, if you want to brow beat DEI, if you want to brow beat gay people, you want to brow beat black people as you have been doing for hundreds of years…
'White people that triple Trumped should be boycotted, banned from enjoying the best thing that America has to offer, which is multiculturalism.
Jennifer Welch took aim at white MAGA voters who support deporting immigrants but still have 'the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant - Trump pictured August 11
'Get your fat a***s out of the Mexican restaurant. Get your fat a***s over at a Cracker Barrel because nobody wants to see your f****ng smug a**, teeny weeny pink arm, big gut around.
'Nobody wants to see that s**t, no one.'
Fans quickly slammed the 'pompous and arrogant' interior designer - with one writing: 'It's always the most intolerant and hateful pretending to love everyone.
Others wrote: 'Yes listen to this elite rich white woman.
'What a pompous, arrogant thing to say.
'Uber Karen. I voted for Trump and I'm having a burrito with chorizo and spinach dip for lunch today.
'I know a lot of black, hispanic and Indian people who voted Trump three times as well.
'How about those Mexican-Americans, Thai, Chinese, Jewish, Muslim, black, Gay etc people that triple voted for Trump? I wonder what she thinks about them?'
Back in April Welch had a tense debate with former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel when he joined I've Had It to discuss the problems within the Democratic Party.
Emanuel previously served as Chicago's mayor from 2011 to 2019, was an adviser to President Bill Clinton, served as President Barack Obama 's chief of staff and was an ambassador to Japan under President Joe Biden.
The two Democrats struggled to find a consensus on transgender rights and their conversation quickly morphed into a tense debate, hinting at a divide that may cause trouble in 2028.
The issue has become a divisive topic across the aisle, but Republicans have seemed to find unity, while Democrats haven't formed a consensus on how to approach transgender rights.
Welch, a more progressive member of the left, laid into Emanuel during their conversation when he accused Kamala Harris of not prioritizing economic issues, noting that Democrats weren't 'really good about the family room issues.'
'The only room we were doing really well was the bathroom, and that's the smallest room in the house,' he continued, referencing the ongoing debate about allowing transgender individuals to use the bathroom they prefer.
The comment set Welch on a tirade, and she quickly responded that his claim was, 'total bulls**t.'
Emanuel argued that transgender issues were 'tangential,' and not a core value on the left, to which Welch vehemently disagreed.
'I'm so sick of Democrats like you selling out and saying this. You know who talks about trans people more than anybody? MAGA. MAGA is the most genital-obsessed political party I have ever seen,' she said.
Welch argued that Harris did have a comprehensive economic plan and even referenced the vice president's proposal to provide up to $25,000 in down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers.
She went on to slam Donald Trump for 'droning on about Hannibal Lecter' and accused Democrats of losing because they're 'playing the game with the rulebook' while Republicans have 'ripped up the rulebook.'
Emanuel then threw up his hands and pushed back, saying as mayor, he did deal with the 'bathroom issue' but that transgender rights were not a cornerstone of the Democratic party.
'They're the gender-obsessed weirdos, [Republicans], not us [Democrats]. We're the ones who fight for Social Security. We fight for Medicare, and yeah, we're not gonna bully trans people,' Welch argued.
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