Republican senator Rand Paul was on the receiving end of a rather blunt message during a town hall meeting on Friday from a Kentucky resident.
Paul, who has represented Kentucky since 2011, is an outspoken conservative and supporter of Donald Trump and refused to recognise Joe Biden’s win at the 2020 presidential election.
Needless to say, if you aren’t a fan of the Republicans then Paul is gonna be quite high up on the list of people to despise. Therefore it shouldn’t be surprising that the 58-year-old was very publicly trolled by TikToker Alexis Toon last week.
In a video shared on Toon’s TikTok page, she tells the senator during a virtual town hall meeting: “Hi, senator, I am a proud Kentucky citizen, and I just wanted to tell you to get f**ked.”
You know, these TikTok pranksters are really out of control. Rand Paul is a United States Senator! Does he really deserve this kind of disrespect? pic.twitter.com/1HvVmiFsrX
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 23, 2021
Paul’s silence and almost look of embarrassment in his eyes say it all.
Although Toon has since made the video private on her TikTok is has inevitably gone viral (it has more than four million views on Twitter at the time of writing) and put a smile on many people’s faces albeit at the expense of Paul.
I. Am. Crying pic.twitter.com/DoXxrLHX7o
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 23, 2021
Meet our new hero, Alexis Toon. 🤣
— Brynn (@pcbrynn) July 24, 2021
According to Alexis, “for some unknown reason” she was asked to participate in a town hall Q&A, so she took the opportunity and ran with it.
Thank you, Alexis 🥂 pic.twitter.com/H97hJlcVrx
According to Huff Post, Toon was contacted “for some unknown reason they called and asked if I’d like to join the town hall Q&A so I took the opportunity and ran with it.”
Paul is currently running for re-election in 2022 against former Kentucky state legislator Charles Booker.
