Joey Jones Ponders Whether Jon Ossoff Was Emulating’ Trump With Natalie Harp Dig — But Claims Prez’s Insults Are ‘More Playful’

Joey Jones, host of The Big Weekend Show on Fox News, slammed Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) for targeting President Donald Trump’s very close aide Natalie Harp — before wondering if Ossoff was just trying to emulate Trump’s “playful” humor.

At a rally last week, Ossoff told a delighted crowd, “While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn’t want to do the job; he wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie oo their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.”

“Nothing makes me more ashamed to be a Georgian than Jon Ossoff,” Jones began, continuing:

He is an absolute disgrace and embarrassment to our state. He didn’t have any kind of career, he wasn’t productive. He didn’t do anything — he didn’t produce or serve in anything for this country until he became a senator, and he did it through a series of unfortunate events, and we’ll leave it at that. Don’t know that we’re going to be able to beat him this cycle, which is really sad in my opinion. Disgusting.

With all that being said, is it a race to the bottom? Are they emulating some of the jabs that we get from President Trump? Nothing’s really off the table, he had some words for Ted Cruz’s wife at one point. It just comes across as different with President Trump, it comes across as a little bit more playful, a little bit more like, ‘Oh this man’s not a politician.’ When people like Jon Ossoff that are cookie-cutter like Manchurian Candidates kind of people do it, it just for some reason, it comes across more pointed, more serious, and less effective, in my opinion. I love the White House’s response to him. So, spokesperson David Engel referred to Ossoff as a “feminine theater kid” and that’s exactly what he is. And unfortunately, he’s also my senator.

During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Trump said he was going to “spill the beans” on Heidi Cruz and retweeted a split-screen picture comparing her to a glamorous photo of Melania Trump. The caption read, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

Trump later called the retweet a mistake.

Watch above.

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