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Walz's wife triggers applause, cringes with anti-Trump hand gesture
A campaign speech by Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz, in which she used a sweeping hand gesture to say “bye bye” and “turn the page” on former President Trump energized a Wisconsin audience, but induced cringes elsewhere.
Gwen Walz was slammed as the “living embodiment of Trump Derangement Syndrome” for a stump speech for her husband, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin on Saturday.
In the speech, Gwen Walz cited Harris’ debate performance last week and how she repeatedly said the election is the time to “turn the page” on the current political climate.
“Now you probably saw that debate the other night. Yeah, that was great. And what Kamala Harris told us we had to do, was we had to turn the page. Yeah, because we have something really exciting headed in our direction,” Gwen Walz said.
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Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz speaks in Wisconsin. (Fox News)
“But I kinda like when she did this,” Minnesota’s first lady continued, imitating someone turning the page of a book. “Turn the page.”
Gwen Walz then asked the audience to join her in pantomiming turning the page, while declaring the Democratic Party has “52 days to turn the page” on Trump’s run for the White House.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on the Truman Balcony of the White House on July 4, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“You know what else that looks like?” Walz asked as she continued moving her arms around. “Bye, bye. Bye bye, Donald Trump,” she exclaimed.
“We are turning the page,” she added.
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Critics quickly slammed Gwen Walz and her speech as “cringe” and “1000x worse than Hillary Clinton.”
Gwen Walz is a Minnesota teacher who met her husband when they both worked as educators in the 1990s. She has served as the Gopher State’s first lady since 2019, when Tim Walz was sworn in as governor.
Gwen Walz previously set social media ablaze this election cycle after an unearthed clip went viral of her describing how she handled the 2020 Minnesota riots.
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“Again we had more sleepless nights during the riots,” Walz’s wife told KSTP in July 2020. “I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. And I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”
Critics and conservatives at the time slammed the remarks as “bizarre” on social media.
A protester reacts standS in front of a burning building set on fire during a demonstration in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 29, 2020, over the death of George Floyd. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
“What might you call this? Bizarre? Abnormal? Peculiar? Eccentric? Offbeat? Quirky?” wrote Noah Rothman, a senior writer at the National Review Online. “Gotta be a word that describes reveling in the catharsis represented by the torching of other people’s property.”
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk described the comments as “weird.”
The Harris-Walz campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Prevent plant claims likely in soaked southeastern Illinois
A technical services representative with BASF says some southeastern Illinois farmers have struggled to find windows to plant this year.
Mike Probst, who’s based in Effingham County, says his area has been inundated with heavy rains throughout the spring.
“Weather event after weather event of two to three inches of rain really made it tough on folks in that area.” He says, “I think there’s fields that have probably been replanted 3 times. I know a lot of the corn that went in at the end of April, most of that didn’t make it or wasn’t a quality enough stand, so it got worked up.”
He tells Brownfield it’s causing farmers to adjust plans on the fly and to consider prevented plant insurance claims.
“We’ve already had several questions where folks have asked if they can come back and plant soybeans based off of what they’ve applied on their corn crop that year, especially in river bottom ground that’s been flooded multiple times.” He says, “But yeah, I know for a fact that’s going to impact a good number of growers.”
Probst says the disjointed planting season has led to crops in varying stages of development, which could pose management challenges for producers throughout the rest of the growing season.
“Maybe the yield potential is not there, but we have actually seen in some of our data, some of that later planted corn is actually where we see some of our biggest fungicide responses.” He says, “It actually goes through more of its life cycle where it is combating disease if that disease does show up early like this year.”
He says the crops in the area that were planted timely and have withstood the storms are doing well and have benefited from the rains.
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INDIANA (WPTA) – The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Indiana State Police are addressing online rumors about the BMV’s new license plate design.
The BMV says that when they post about the Blackout plates on their social media accounts, they receive comments claiming the design makes it easier for plate recognition cameras, like Flock, to read.
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ISP confirmed that Automated License Plate Recognition cameras can read all Indiana plates with the same efficiency and accuracy as the Blackout version.
Police say the color and design of a license plate do not impact the camera’s ability to read it.
“I wouldn’t want Hoosiers to miss out on the Blackout plate because of incorrect information,” Indiana BMV Commissioner Kevin Garvey says. “The Blackout plate’s purpose is to give our customers more choices when it comes to their plate design. It’s simply a fun style choice.”
The BMV says more than 240,000 Hoosiers have purchased the Blackout plate since its release in August 2025. Learn more about it here.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Linn County, Kansas, man died in a single-vehicle crash early Thursday morning.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says just after midnight Thursday, a 41-year-old Centerville, Kansas, man was driving south on Mills Road about 6.5 miles southwest of La Cygne when he lost control of a 2012 Hyundai Elantra.
The vehicle left the roadway and struck an embankment, causing the Hyundai to overturn before coming to rest on its top.
The driver and sole occupant of the car, Edward Schultz, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
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