Tuberville offers to give Schumer a grilling lesson after viral barbecue photo

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) isn’t done criticizing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) over his barbecue mess, offering to “teach” the New York Democrat York a lesson on how to grill a burger.

“He’s trying to show people that, hey, he’s just a regular guy who goes up and cooks and everything — you can tell he’s never cooked in his life,” Tuberville said of a since-deleted Father’s Day photo that Schumer posted on social platform X, showing him smiling with a spatula in his hand next to a grill.

“Our family has lived in an apartment building all the years, 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!” Schumer, 73, said in the post.

Conservative critics criticized Schumer for the photo, which appeared to show a raw hamburger on the grill topped with a slice of cheese.

“First of all, he’s cooking on a gas grill,” Tuberville said Tuesday on “The Benny Show.”

“In the South, we call it communism. I cook with regular charcoal — lump charcoal and apple wood chips,” said the 69-year-old college football coach turned lawmaker.

“I like to cook steaks and chicken – I cook everything – sausage. But there is also a way to cook them. You have to soak your apple or walnut chips for about 30 minutes and then put the charcoal on to give it that’s it. flavor,” Tuberville told conservative commentator Benny Johnson.

Schumer’s office did not immediately respond to ITK’s request for comment on the criticism related to Tuberville’s barbecue.

After Johnson suggested filming a “special on how to properly grill” directed at Schumer, Tuberville responded, “We can invite him over and teach him how to do that.”

“He wouldn’t know the difference between a hot dog and a hamburger, I’ll tell you right now,” Tuberville said.

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