Schumer criticized for grilling photo in Father’s Day post

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer may be feeling the burn from critics: He’s being roasted for a Father’s Day grilled instant.

The New York Democrat posted a photo to X on Sunday to mark the father-centric holiday, showing him smiling as he balanced a burger on a spatula.

“Our family has lived in an apartment building all the years,” Schumer said in the post, “but my daughter and her wife just bought a house with a yard and for the first time we are having a barbecue with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill. !”

“Father’s Day Heaven!” exclaimed the 73-year-old senator.

But the barbecue lawmaker stoked criticism from grilled meat experts with enormous confusion, firing up conservative media detractors who scoffed at a seemingly raw burger topped with a slice of cheese.

“I understand you are playing to the masses,” Donald Trump Jr. said. said on X“but literally no one puts cheese on a raw beef burger.”

“If you need help learning basic grilling, let me know. But it was a good attempt to bond,” said the 46-year-old son of former President Trump.

“I’m not a grill master by any means. You don’t have to be to know that Chuck Schumer has no idea what he’s doing.”another Xthe user responded.

On Monday, the post disappeared from X. Schumer’s office and did not respond to ITK’s request for comment.

Schumer’s seemingly botched episode, some critics noted, was reminiscent of other mistakes made by politicians.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) was ridiculed in 2022 for posing for a barbecue photo while wearing a crisp white dress.

In 2021, Terry McAuliffe (D), then a candidate for governor of Virginia, was criticized for posting a 4th of July Video which appeared to show him cooking hot dogs and hamburgers on an unplugged grill. The Virginia Republican Party targeted McAuliffe in a burning reaction to the burger mayhem, calling it the “McAuliffe week that was never cooked.”

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