A former congressman’s TDS intersected with his fanboying for Ukraine’s president with a post-assassination attempt dig that landed more like a “pretty disturbing” downplay of threats.
Instead of finally taking ownership of the impact their hyperbolic, violent rhetoric has had on their base, Democrats have responded to the latest attempt on the life of President Donald Trump by trying to spin a narrative. While suggestions of insufficient security further justified the chief executive’s construction of a White House ballroom, congressman turned talking head Adam Kinzinger propagandized for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Sharing an image of the Eastern European leader among members of the military from his X account that still reads “Slava Ukraini” with the nation’s flag beside Old Glory, the former Illinois congressman included the caption, “Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe.”
This, of course, earned a considerable reality check for the RINO about the whining that Zelenskyy has done and how much it could buy him at the expense of taxpayers — unlike the funded White House ballroom. As California Post opinion editor Joel Pollak put it, “We’ve bought him the equivalent of 9,771 ballrooms.”
We’ve bought him the equivalent of 9,771 ballrooms https://t.co/VEIRYuBjbL
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) April 28, 2026
Well grifting off hundreds of billions of American tax dollars will do that to a man. And on behalf of the American taxpayers, thank you Mr. Slava Ukraine for supporting that initiative. Did you skim a little off the top for yourself?
— Today I’m an Expert on… (@SpeakFourTruth) April 29, 2026
I think he’s whined enough for a life time.
— 504girl ⚜️ (@504CNM) April 28, 2026
A dictator that avoids elections flies around the world to everyone else’s ballrooms
— ComputerSage (@ComputerSageJAB) April 28, 2026
Thats because he has a ballroom older than America you retard. He has a Presidential Palace and not a House. Get educated pic.twitter.com/yqCrMryLMx
— JoyfulWarrior (@JoyfulWarrior91) April 28, 2026
This reporter wishes he had been in a safe ballroom pic.twitter.com/R6nGPdKAr7
— Marc Cocteaustan (@Igor_Cocteau) April 28, 2026
The backlash didn’t deter Kinzinger, who resorted to absurdity when he posted the next day, “Wonder why we don’t just build a big ballroom around Ukraine and protect them all? Or do that for the Middle East?”
What’s more, the former lawmaker, who infamously sobbed during a hearing about the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol and then played the victim over the “cold-hearted” mockery he incurred, saw fit to present the responses of other presidents to attacks in a manner that suggested heightening security was not only unwarranted, but possibly cowardly as well.
“Teddy Roosevelt got shot in the chest and finished a 90-minute speech. Reagan got shot and joked, ‘Honey, I forgot to duck.’ Truman survived an attack and kept his Arlington schedule. None of them blamed their critics. None of them built a ballroom,” wrote Kinzinger, who conveniently left out Trump’s “Fight! Fight! Fight!” response to the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt and his reported desire to continue the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner after Saturday’s threat.
Wonder why we don’t just build a big ballroom around Ukraine and protect them all? Or do that for the Middle East?
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AdamKinzinger) April 29, 2026
Teddy Roosevelt got shot in the chest and finished a 90-minute speech. Reagan got shot and joked, “Honey, I forgot to duck.” Truman survived an attack and kept his Arlington schedule. None of them blamed their critics. None of them built a ballroom. pic.twitter.com/NUAl4RwaVS
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AdamKinzinger) April 28, 2026
Kinzinger was also called out for describing a drunk man crash landing a stolen plane on the White House lawn during the Clinton administration — when the president wasn’t even there — as “a man crashed his plane into the White House.”
It wasn’t an attempted assassination. It was a drunk man who, according to friends, had no ill will toward Clinton. Pretending otherwise is a disingenuous way to downplay the political violence plaguing this country and only further prolongs any real solution. https://t.co/t5RGKUIhi4
— Brianna Lyman (@briannalyman2) April 28, 2026
All told, the impression left on social media was such that users began to think leftists were trying to normalize political violence rather than turn down the temperature. As one account put it in response to the RINO’s reference to the plane crash, “Democrats wanting assassination attempts to seem like no big deal is pretty disturbing.”
Democrats wanting assassination attempts to seem like no big deal is pretty disturbing.
— best decade ever (@ZachFOCO) April 28, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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