Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently sat down for a “Chip Chat” with feminist Liz Plank, leading to a bizarre Instagram Reel of the 49th governor of Michigan feeding Doritos to the “award-winning journalist.”
Plank posted a YouTube video Thursday featuring an interview with Whitmer that “explains why she actually wants to meet the men who tried to kidnap her, and how, even in an election year, she still believes we can find common ground.”
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Plank, who has about 1,700 subscribers, bills herself as “an award-winning journalist, bestselling author and filmmaker” and goes by the handle of feministabulous on Instagram.
The interview led to a Reel posted to Plank’s Instagram account that features the self-described feminist on her knees, as Whitmer, donning a camouflage Harris-Walz hat, feeds her Doritos to the 2002 hit Dilemma, by Nelly and Kelly Rowland.
In the 8-second clip, Plank sticks out her tongue, eyes closed, as Whitmer places a chip in her mouth. Plank then stared adoringly at Whitmer, who stares blankly at the camera, offering a slight nod.
How else can this be interpreted other than mockery of Catholics and the sacrament of Holy Communion, not to mention the distasteful pornographic innuendo? Gretchen Whitmer is only the latest example of the gross anti-Catholic bigotry festering inside the Democratic Party. pic.twitter.com/KG1BmHYkJM
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“How else can this be interpreted other than mockery of Catholics and the sacrament of Holy Communion, not to mention the distasteful pornographic innuendo?” Catholic Vote posted. “Gretchen Whitmer is only the latest example of the gross anti-Catholic bigotry festering inside the Democratic Party.”
“I’m so embarrassed by our top officials here in Michigan,” one X user posted in response to a copy of the clip.
“What even is this?” wrote another.
The post appears to be a play on a TikTok trend involving friends feeding each other food as they stare into the camera.
The left-wing influencer attempted to connect the stunt to the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 and the 2024 presidential election.
“Chips aren’t just delicious, the CHIPS Act is a game-changer for U.S. tech and manufacturing, boosting domestic production of semiconductors to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers!” Plank wrote. “Donald Trump would put that at risk.”
Whitmer’s 9-minute interview with Plank featured jokes about abortion, discussion on the “manosphere,” the nation’s political divide, and Whitmer’s perspective on her alleged kidnapping attempt.
“You have two daughters, when they come back home and they leave their Stanley cups lying around, do you ever think about getting a post birth abortion?” Plank asked the governor.
Whitmer laughed hysterically.
“Thank you for raising that because there’s no such thing,” Whitmer said. “So I think it’s really important for us to make sure people understand that.”
Other important questions: “Would you rather be in a forest alone with Donald Trump or with a bear?”
“A bear,” Whitmer said. “Because I might have a better shot at reasoning with the bear.”
The governor also said she wanted to learn something from the men who allegedly tried to kidnap her during the COVID pandemic.
“There were a couple of them who cooperated with the government and testified against their fellow co-conspirators and showed remorse,” Whitmer said. “Those are the people that I’d like to just see if there’s something to learn from it that’ll make me a better governor and help me understand so I can be a better human being.”
“Wow, that’s incredible,” said Plank, who steered the conversation to “how we address masculinity,” pointing to the issue as a driver for the kidnapping and “men who feel disaffected” becoming “vulnerable” to joining extremist groups.
Whitmer argued Democrats are working to find “a path to prosperity” for young men “in our suburbs or in rural areas,” while Republicans outreach “is connecting, but they’re feeding the anger.”
The interview, and chip-feeding social media stunt, are the latest of the governor’s numerous attempts to play it cool online.
In late September, Whitmer released an X video targeting Gen Z voters that featured the 53-year-old dropping a greatest hits of teen slang, including “cooking with gas,” “rizzing them up,” “not chill,” “no cap,” “swifty af,” and “leaving the chat.”
In July, it was #HotInfrastructureSummer.
“#HotInfrastructureSummer is here, and everyone knows that strong, reliable infrastructure is real hot girl sh–,” Whitmer posted to X, along with a fire emoji and a video reiterating her unfulfilled campaign promise to “fix the damn roads.”
Other social media antics have included Whitmer’s “Governor Barbie” campaign last year that featured a “Lil’ Gretch” lookalike cruising the state in a vintage pink Corvette to tout the governor’s policies on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Facebook.
“Lil’ Gretch was a way for us to communicate with people the good important work we’re doing in government, but also to make it current and fun,” Whitmer said in a red carpet interview at the 28th Annual Webby Awards in New York City in May. “So, she’s been great.”