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Republican Rep.George Santoshas waded into a back-and-forth with musician andRuPaul’s Drag RacealumTrixie Mattel, with the drag star shading the controversial lawmaker after he mocked those impersonating him.
Mattel, who won season three ofRuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, responded with: “Maybe the source material was weak.”
Santos then responded: “Clearly you know all about weak acting skills @trixiemattel,” adding a gif of the drag queen impersonating RuPaul Charles onher season ofAll Stars, for which she was nearly eliminated from the competition.
Mattel then brought up Santos' own past history of drag, writing: “I am not an actor! I was young and I had fun at a festival!”
That’s the same line Santos used when footage of him donning drag in Brazil recently surfaced. While the New York congressman admitted the footage was of him, he denied being a “drag queen,“telling reporters: “No, I was not a drag queen in Brazil, guys. I was young and I had fun at a festival. Sue me for having a life.”
Santosgot the last wordin the snarky Twitter exchange, telling Mattel, “It’s all good! I won my race against the fan favorite too.” (Mattel beat competitor Kennedy Davenport in season 3 ofRuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars; Santos beat Democrat Robert Zimmerman in a blue-leaning district.)
Santos — who was elected in November to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District— has been the subject of numerous headlines afterThe New York Timesfound that many the claims he made on the campaign trail and on his resume were unsubstantiated.
Santos has sinceadmitted he lied aboutsome things, such as working at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, as he had previously asserted (he never worked at either), and attending Baruch College and New York University (he attended neither).
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Santos has said he won’t resign from office, even as some Republicans in Congress and in his own district have called on him to do so.
Earlier this month, a group of Nassau County, New York, Republicans called on Santos to resign in a press conference, with chairman Joseph Cairo telling reporters: “Today, on behalf of the Nassau County Republican Committee, I am calling for his immediate resignation. George Santos' campaign last year, 2022, was a campaign of deceit, lies, fabrication.”
Cairo continued: “He deceived voters. His lies were not mere fibs. He disgraced the House of Representatives … He’s not welcome here at Republican headquarters.”
source: people.com
