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Katie Porter vows to ‘fight the Trump administration’ to ensure truck drivers don’t have to speak English as a job requirement
Katie Porter, current California gubernatorial candidate — and, objectively speaking, as a professional observer of these creatures in action, an absolute dumpster fire of a politician — has vowed to “fight the Trump administration” to ensure that migrant truckers who can’t speak English can continue plying their craft.
“Do you believe that English proficiency, language proficiency should be strictly enforced for truck drivers?” a moderator asks.
Her answer:
I would absolutely fight the Trump administration because the job of the California governor is to protect Californians. And right now, that includes protecting them from Donald Trump. Protecting Californians also includes enforcing traffic laws. And we’ve seen sometimes a need for oversight. In California, for example, we have seen that the Department of Motor Vehicles was not enforcing the rules of DUIs and drivers who had convictions for that.
She then launches into a predictable non-sequitur spiel about black and brown people being “terrorized” or whatever — the usual Social Justice™ tripe.
Moderator: “Do you believe that English proficiency, language proficiency should be strictly enforced for truck drivers?”
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) April 24, 2026
Katie Porter: "I would absolutely fight the Trump administration" pic.twitter.com/2DUV3xPTCc
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What you’ll notice is that she never actually gets around to answering the question, which was whether professional truck drivers should be required to speak English — which a reasonable person could construe as a necessary prerequisite to fulfill basic tasks like reading traffic signs or communicating with their colleagues or emergency personnel over the radio.
Of course, all politicians absolutely refuse to answer basic questions in a forthright manner in debates, media appearances, or Congressional testimonies, which is what makes these exercises entirely pointless aside from assessing whatever propagandistic talking points their handlers have whispered in their ears and then, extrapolating, reading between the lines about what might actually be going on.
However, Katie Porter is uniquely untalented at playing the game, in addition to being thoroughly unlikable as a person.
For a window into the character, or lack thereof, of this person, here she is in a video unearthed last year, but recorded in 2021, berating one of her staffers for daring to get in her shot during an interview: “Get out of my f***ing shot!”
She’s allegedly even more vicious and vindictive when the cameras aren’t on.
Her ex-husband alleges that she wouldn’t let him own a cell phone on the grounds that he was too stupid to operate it, and that she once dumped boiling-hot mashed potatoes on his head during a domestic dispute.
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Via New York Post (emphasis added):
The former husband of Rep. Katie Porter said the California Democrat frequently abused him verbally and threw “toys, books and other objects” at him during their marriage — even pouring scalding-hot mashed potatoes on his head during a fight, according to divorce records.
Matthew Hoffman, who filed for divorce from Porter in 2013, said in a request for a restraining order dated April 30 of that year that he was “routinely” called a “f—ing idiot” and “f—ing incompetent” by his rage-prone spouse, who also shattered a glass coffee pot on their kitchen counter in March 2012 when she felt their house wasn’t clean enough.
“She would not let me have a cell phone because she said, ‘You’re too f—ing dumb to operate it,’” Hoffman said of Porter, 49, who has also been accused of ridiculing former members of her staff…
In 2006, Hoffman said, Porter took issue with how Hoffman was preparing mashed potatoes for dinner, asking him: “Can’t you read the f—ing instructions!” Then, her ex-husband said, Porter raised a “ceramic bowl of steaming hot potatoes and dumped it on my head, burning my scalp.”
All of which is to say: she’s surely got the middle-aged divorcee Karen vote on lock.
