GOP Senator Ben Sasse received sharp criticism from a high school board member for the comments he made during starting address during weekends.
The senator delivered an online address to students at his former high school, Fremont High School in Nebraska, where he blamed China for the coronavirus outbreak, joked about student fitness and shared his dislike of psychologists.
Unshaven Sasse, wearing a red tie and a loose white shirt, told students at their future reunion that they would talk about “that time when China started a major global pandemic that created the worst public health crisis in more than a century and brought the economy to kneel, and we have to stay home and everyone hoard toilet paper. “
Sasse continues, “Nobody knows exactly how we will defeat this, but you know, we are Americans, we are Nebraskan, we have grits and we will defeat this.”
The senator also said there would be “serious calculations with thugs in China who let this mess out of control by lying about it.”
He also told students, “Everyone named Jeremy is the worst,” without any explanation.
He also cited the Netflix documentary “Tiger King”, killed bees, and took a hard blow on the student body, “Back in the day when we were much fitter than you, we had to climb ropes all the way to the gym ceiling all the time.”
The senator took aim at psychologists too, saying “95 percent of all psychologists who were successfully employed … their work was really just to help people forget about high school,” added, “if you go to college, don’t – don’t – don’t – majors in psychology. That part is not a joke. “
A Fremont school board member, Michael Petersen, asked Sasse to apologize Facebook“You deserve better than a graduation statement from Senator Ben Sasse. Racism, implies that our graduates are fat and lazy, looking down on teachers and attacking the mental health profession is despicable.”
Sasse’s spokesman, James Wegmann, said Omaha World-Herald on Sunday the senator joked during the graduation speech and that “It is ridiculous that some people who are addicted to politics complain about Ben calling China in a joke.”
Wegmann then went on, “He said this for months, because it was true: The Chinese Communist Party’s coronavirus packaging was a waste of time that could contain the spread – the lies claimed innocent lives in China and throughout the world. Pretended graduates being too fragile to hear the truth is ridiculous. “
